And the beats of drums
The smiling faces
The shinning eyes
The jumping children
The dancing boys
The excited girls
The gleeful noise
The relatives moving around
In colorful clothes
The servants hustling about
In white-waiter-robes
The modest bride and her dreams
A whole new future in front gleams
The tales of blissful couples spinning in her mind
To spend eternity with the-selected-one
The bridegroom has his visions as well
Of the expected delights of married life
In company of the parents-chosen wife
But I stand and see
The apprehensions and fears beneath the smiles
The nightmare in the guise of dream beguiles
The future worries and pain
Beneath the enchantment, feign
I see the romance wearing away
The physical rapture held at bay
And their tense, bored faces when they realize
That 'life' has arrived
Into the abyss has the happiness dived
Oh! How they cloak the pain in this Sireneal knell!
Oh! How they enjoy as if oblivious to impending hell!
Oh! How they dance as if guaranteed perpetual bliss!
Oh! How they ignore the serpent’s hiss!
Oh! How they conceal this 'deal' as 'marriage'!
Oh! How they put the bride in the demonic carriage!
Oh! How they substitute enforcement for love!
Lo! Spare me of this hypocrisy!
I cannot see
Love being robbed of choice this way!
Oh! How love is sacrificed on this day!
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