by Nilanjana Bose

Created on: May 23, 2010   Last Updated: December 28, 2011

Much love is wasted on love’s demands

Specified to astounding detail -

The shades of flowers, rings on hands

Hair partings of vermillion under the veil.

Rules and regulations that prescribe

Fasts and feasts and four letter words -

Everything must be paraded outside

Everything voiced and nothing inferred.

Well, I’m not the one who’ll rigidly stand

And tell you what to do or say.

Love’s yours, and no reprimands

On flowers or rings, or words or ways.

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