Friday, June 22, 2018

Early Marriage ( A Poem)


There is a great difference between:
Money and love,
Choices and option,
Force and conviction;
Encouragement and persuasion,
Father!

Why didn’t you allow me to complete my secondary education?
Why were you carried away by money?
Can money buy Love?
My success is now retarded,
My time wasted, and my age escalated.
Father!


Don’t you have any conscience?
Me, your only daughter,
Why should I abandon a slave for a king?
That boy is the land-lord of my heart,
And the king of my kingdom;
Father!

Did you forget the bag of rice he bought for you?
Why not you belch his food?
Now that you have emptied his pockets,
Stranded his dignity and wealth;
Who next to curse?
You can’t separate two corpses in the same grave,
He alone I do love.

Father!
Why not you try to reason as usual?
Marriage has many pains,
And I am too young to dance with many sorrows,
What a suffering and pain do I have to undergo?
All in the nest of an early marriage.





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