A/N: Written for the Pairing Set Bootcamp, pairing 16. Rowena/Godric, for the Freeverse Frenzie Competition, poem 48, and for the Scrabble Challenge.
A Longer Poetry Collection
17. Brawns and Brains
The brawns and the brains
those others said.
Let them laugh
was her reply –
for, really, who cared
what whispers dogged
their steps –
They were a couple
in bickering love
and that was all there was to it.
His nonsensical comments
grated her nerves; her unintelligible ones
scraped his.
But her fists were sharp
like a cared-for sword
and his tongue
yet sharper still.
She won the battles
where brains were the
best weapon there was;
he won the rest
And once, in jest, she offered
her diadem in her stead;
he gave his sword instead
But that day they made
the old tough smarty Hat.