Love and marriage

Love needs no sanction                              

It happens of its own

Marriage is a sacred union

Witnessed by society, law or both

Whether married love is the same

As love was, before the marriage came

Or the love that develops between two strangers

Is not like love arranged after the marriage date

It is not easy to articulate and answer

Such are the questions of love and marriage

Better let them remain within the four walls

Being matters of heart, not an intellectual debate

But what surprises is the guts

When two strangers tie the knot

Parents arrange the match

And the rest they leave to God

Blind they play the game of life

The stakes are high as well as large

It is like being on top of the world

But the ladder stands withdrawn

They hold on to each other

And tear each other apart

But they dare not jump out

As steep and dangerous is the fall

Whether love remains skin deep

Or it takes roots deep and wide          

But it is no less baffling a miracle

That it lasts till the last breath of life!