When They Got Married
he was 35 and she was 33
he confessed and she said yes
they preferred a small chapel
so there will be lesser guests
enters the lady of discord
hmmm she says this marriage
will last for only two years
the two will surely split
reasons and more reasons
but the lady has a story to tell
she had pre-marital sex
lived with her man for only a year
and since then she hopped
like lady grasshopper from
one shrub to another
today we are on the twelfth year
of being married and being just
together
and we think about this love
that we want to last
this is not about time anymore
or marriage as an institution
or what our friend and relatives may say
this is not about the bed and board
this is not about sex
or compulsory support
or the fear of having to face
a family court for a legal separation
or annulment of this union
no, this is beyond all the predictions
and patterns of
a broken home
of today's phenomenon
where separation had become
a rule and we
are but the few exceptions
this had nothing to do
with battered wives
or henpecked husbands
or flying frying pans
and shattered wine glasses
unanswered emails
lonely breakfasts
late dinners
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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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