and then there's marriage...

For me times haven’t changed,
We are still two valiant warriors
battling against a cruel world.
I, holding my red duppatta over your head,
so the cold raindrops don’t wet you,
And you, walking on the “Danger” side of the road.

Now you brush past me in the hallway
and don’t even utter an apology- I don’t expect one but
did you have to shudder, as though touching me repelled you.
I didn’t realize when all your love had gone and bitterness taken its place.
because my all-encompassing love for you, made me blind.

I see now you are changed and the pity is,
for me, the times haven’t changed at all…