Don't Wife Me

                                DON’T WIFE ME

Don’t make me a wife

Until I say I do

Don’t make me your lover                                                                                                                                                   

Till I say I love you

Don’t ask me to clean your clothes

Until we’re married

Unless you’re sick

Those chores are your wife’s

Don’t compel me to say I love you

If I do not wish to

For I will be lying

And if I say no

Just know that I mean it

And my only expectation

Is your respect for my stand

Don’t make me an enemy

If I do not accept your proposal

For am just being honest

Yet friendship is an alternative

But if you insist on distance

Heartily I shall grant

Anne Wangechi