Poems

Arrange Marriage

I don't know if you're the person
I want to spend my life with.
I don't know if you're someone
who would make me feel complete.

I don't know if there's something on your mind.
Or if you're thinking something.
What would be our relationship defined?
would it be something abiding?

Would your family be the same
as it had been before?
or was it all an act to claim
a maid to do every household chore

Would you be the same husband
my father thought was right for me
Or will I be someday awakened
to you raping me abysmally?

Would your mother be just like mine?
Would she support me like the daughter of her own?
Will she let me do a job, earn a dime
or will she press me to give her a grandson?

I have a zillion things on my mind
Sitting here with you in this mandap.
With this knot, our lives would bind
I hope not I end up with a schmuck.

I hope you are just like
I thought of in my mind.
I hope we think alike
as from today, our lives are combined

K.C.Waghela
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