Marriage: the Institutional Arrangement...Part 2

I guess getting married is a process colored by so many mixed emotions that a single blog post cannot capture it. I made an attempt to capture some of the substantial fears that I confronted before the process begun, here I attempt to capture the journey through which it finally happened.

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So it happened, 
The meeting that was meant, 
To make us decide our lives' bends - 

Did everything that we were advised not to,
Shared dark stories that few were known to...
Broke the images that were created of us,
Opened up in a way unimaginable even to us...

said Yes, without quite knowing why,
Just knew - we can be friends if we try...

It was indeed an adventure of the highest sort,
Felt we'll find the way that both sought...

In the celebrations that followed, 
our fears were drowned,
In laughter's noise from our loved ones around...

What followed it was what precedes for most,
We spent nights talking through the Mussourie frost,
Discussed everything big and small,
Saw our worries and our fears fall...

Got engaged in due course of time,
In our minds we were going out since a long time,
We knew by now we were meant to be, 
Life will unfold as through each others' eyes we'll see...

...How we wished to get married then and there,
The courtship period seemed too long to bear...

Can't tell you when it happened,
That the child within found its loved one...

Long forgotten were its cries for freedom, 
As it eagerly awaited the day of union... :)