Marriage

Marriage…
The moment every girl plans for her whole life
The day she has been dieting for
Only ten kilo away from her goal weight
She plans everything months ahead:
The red velvet bouquet arrangements,
The four tier wedding cake,
The assortments of cupcakes and the peach parfait,
along with the china glaze tableware.
It is essential she collects:
something old, something new,
something borrowed, something blue.

She can picture all that awaits her over the horizon
A two story house with a white picket fence
The live jazz concerts in Paris
She couldn’t wait for the countless gifts she would soon receive
The pink diamond, racing rubies,
And the sterling silver rose she will get on her twenty- fifth wedding anniversary

Marriage…
The day every man dreads
The day he willingly gives up his freedom
Leaving a life of chaos and wild things
For a life of structure.
Exchanging his sweat pants
For callvin klien.
He must give up his bachelors pad
For a cute house in the country.
Traveling to a café in aspen
Instead of his annual party destination in West Palm Beach.
He must turn in his Ferrari black
For a blue minivan.
He didn’t want to leave his one man show.

He didn’t know how he let it get this far
He felt like he had been under a voodoo spell
Marriage was a contradiction to everything he believed in

She enters the chapel of love
Her heartbeat is racing
She is ready to set her life in motion

His black suit slowly becomes full of perspiration
He must resist his inclination to run
And catch the next taxi

Marriage…
Her life of happiness awaits

Marriage…
His life of chains awaits