MARRIAGE

 

Marriage

Where the beautiful, blissful

Dreamy state gives way too soon

To wide awake reality

Of mounting bills, pregnancies

And worrying non-pregnancies

And donations and loans and mortgages.

Where finances and sex and sexual preferances

Seem to rule.

 

Marriage

Where the poise and grace

And character

Of a child reflects the cook, the nurse

The tailor, the teacher and various other

Roles that the mother has donned.

Or none at all -

Reflects the sagacity and sincerity

And responsibility of the father

Or none at all.

 

Marriage

Where with passing years

One learns to read, not just facial expressions

Or the atmosphere of the room,

But each other's thoughts

Across the Globe -

Where attitude during the day

Shows on the attitude in the night

When the so-called big things

That seem to matter so much during the day

Lose out to  the small, small indifferences.

 

Marriage

Where moving in different directions

Works like a spring

That pulls back - resulting in headlong collision.

Where the romantic notion of give, give, give

Soon gives way to the disillusioning reality

That it is give and take, give and take, give and take

All the way....

Where bread winner and bread maker

Work as a unit and synchronize

To make an institution work

For the betterment of some other little human being,

Putting themselves last on the list.

 

Marriage

Where flirting to gain her attention

Backfires -

Because you cannot take it when she flirts too -

Where ninety nine point nine percent does not work,

Because behind all those humdrum finances and relatives and sex

And children and mortgages and bills

Marriage is -

And always will be

Only about Love, Protection and Security.

Glory Sasikala