Four friends were sitting in a bar
One girl with three boys, was a little bizarre!
They were talking about a TV character
Who was miserable with babies
All of a sudden, it struck to the girl
They could be in the same situation
In approximately some four to five years
Probably all in their late-twenties
So, quite curiously, she questioned the boys:
“When do you guys wish to get married?”
One friend answered hurriedly, “There’s still time for that,
But it would definitely not be before I turn 30.”
She added up the numbers
And boy it was true!
Today they were around 25, and realized that
Time will fly by really soon
Just like the past four to five years
Which they had spent chilling together
Finding every opportunity during college
To hang out with each other
After a little beating around the bush,
The question was flipped at the girl
Another close friend asked,
“You tell us, what age would it be for you?”
The girl was a little wiser
And believed that she had understood
The entire sham of marriage
At the young and delicate age of 24
She replied with a brimming confidence,
“I’ll know when it’s time.
Maybe I get married within a month
To the one who I feel is right.”
She dreamed to have a marriage
Not just a big, fat fancy wedding
She wished to spend her life with someone
Who can absorb her just the way she exists
Dive into her mind and body
As deep as it could possibly be done
Consume every little cell of her sumptuous soul
Encourage her each day to grow a little more
Surrender to her the darkness of his deep-rooted demons
Treasure the love which transforms them into lily-white angels
Appreciate her visible as well as invisible flaws
Layered in the form of blemishes, birth marks and moles
She was aware that she was the only one
Who honestly had the right to choose
And her decision would not be based on
Any age set by the society or other bogus norms
It would only happen when she feels ready
It would only be when she finds her soulmate
To share all her good, bad, and ugly moments with
To share her brightest and darkest thoughts with
And even though this person
Seems too good to be true
She is no longer naive to compromise
She clearly knows what she yearns
She does not want to feel in marriage
That she is unable to exist as her own self
While promising to share the rest of her life
Clad in the arms of someone else
Self and the Other 