GENTLE MAN

by Marc Carver

"I am a gentle man,"
I told her
but she did not look so sure
"It is the gentleness of a woman that I like."
"Men can be gentle too. I said.
"I have a girlfriend." she said as we sat on  the table outside the pub
I was there waiting for another woman to come
and come to think of it
I guess she was too.