Love matters and age?

 

The Government’s proposal

To raise the marriageable age of a girl

Seems most unreasonable…

Once she is eighteen

As of today’s situation

It should be left to her will

And honoured by all.

She may pursue education

And later get married

Or she may get married

And pursue education

Let her choice be acceptable to all.

Such a law, raising the age

Hurts youngsters in love

Here is a life story I know

Of two youngsters in love…

They were in love

When the boy was still in college

And the girl in high school.

They waited

Until the boy settled

With a good job

To disclose to their elders

Their desire to get married.

When they got married

She was nineteen

And he was twenty-six…

They could have got married

A year earlier

When she was eighteen

And he was twenty-five

But there were hurdles

Normal to some love stories.

Their anxiety-filled courtship was long

A year of delay of their wedding

Was hurting…

Their love mattered a lot

Not their age then or now

As they are happy senior citizens now!☺