Imprisoned by the myths

Myths-informed about all

Things around that matter

Of love and marriage

The myth of perfectness

Widely spread and live among us

Destroying and endangering our lives

Setting up unrealistic expectations

Of impossible dreams and magic thinking

Misinforming, misleading and disillusioning

Deceiving us in its entirety

Preparing us to walk away

The moment our fantasy clashes

Yes, meet with the reality

But the truth set free from the myths

Of the myth of viral love

Insisting that love is caught

Much like a virus

Some enchanted evening

When you happen to be

In the right place at the right time

Soon, it zaps you

Ending it all there

In a lifetime of unending bliss

The myth of the ‘right person’

Of the bone of my bone

The only one somewhere to come

Suggesting that on him or her alone

Fulfillment of longed happiness

Aligning stars to get the one

The Mr. and Mrs. Perfect

Making up romantic, excited and blissful life

The myth of the ‘full box’

Of the mind of total inheritance

Of things self-replacing good things

Unshakable un-interrupting blissful home

Of accustomed satisfaction and life-style

A continuous struggle to get

Another box once the old loose

Power to give desired satisfaction

Of the myth of ‘marriage-go-round’

Of ho-on and off marriages

When feeling and interest go

Satisfaction and desired now drained

Of unfulfilled selfish lustful gratification

Making spouse disposable and replaceable

Dumped and going for better offer

Just replace it! Replace it quick!

The next come, the next,

The big unexpected trouble!

In the whirlwind of life

When we’re worn out

Of taking many basic responsibility

Of child-rearing and home keeping

Then the virus subsidies

Yes, romances vacates the stage

And reality takes over

Dawn on us all then

Confuse of what to do next

Of the mistake we have made

Taking romance for true love

Yet love does not die

Because romance bows

Indeed bow for what we rare consider

Yes, reality, reality of things