MARRIAGE MYSTERY 1

I look at you fast asleep beside me...
You in one world, me in another ,
and wonder how --
YOU and ME
Together__
Have made a family!

Forefathers--
Grandfathers and grandmothers,
Their forefathers and families--
All have been left behind.
Most we don't know.
Ahead we've moved ,
Together we've stayed
and
Created a new family!
With each year we move further and further away.

Each marriage is a creation
planned by God.
Perfected or imperfected by Man.

Love distributes.
Responsibilities distribute.
Time, space, duties, values and ethics
Connect and reconnect.
Relationships metamorphosise.
Pain, anger, love and all feelings_
Change and rechange.
What is it then that still bind us
Together?

There is no blood or umbical cord to bind us.
Why is it that we feel we have to remain together?
Children break away from parents:
There is no hesitation then!
Parents, who with love have created us ,
Become different when we marry.
Why?

It is indeed strange
That when
Parents and later even children
Become different--
We will remain--
Man and Wife
With nothing to bind us
But feelings and social norms
and perhaps
A thought.

You and Me ,
Together,
Will become
Someone's grandfather and grandmother.
To future generations,
We will be forefathers
Together as
Man and Wife'
We will remain one