Marriage and Divorce

Scriptures eulogise it as a sacrament

A union with lifelong commitment

To enter one was free

But there was no out-door to flee

For the whole life to each other they must belong

Through the vagaries of times together they have to move along

This good law lasted for long

Only in the modern times we found it to be wrong

“What if things don’t go as per my plan

Why should then I suffer for the full life span

When the other is hell

Then together why should I dwell

So, give me a slit to slip out”

Law said, “To what you propose though I have my doubt

Yet take it if you insist; but out before you move

The other’s guilt you must prove”

Then there was a demand to make it free of proof and debate

“Why should law approve when we have decided to separate”

Law then agreed to introduce divorce by consent

With just a role of recordation the court must then be content

Soon people will say “why wait for other’s consent

When notice of divorce I have already sent

I have spoken divorce

So, my marriage is no longer in force”

For marriage indeed you need two

But for divorce just one would do

When this circle is complete

Would marriage itself not become obsolete?

Why give it a form

When just to live-in becomes the new norm

You are free to move in and out

And also to wander about

Liberation from bondage we will indeed attain

But with that the institution of marriage goes down the drain

Without divorce for millennia the society did thrive

With divorce for how long would it survive?