Arranged Marriages, An Ekphrastic Poem Poem by Ravi Kopra

Magritte
The Lovers (1928)

"A blind date? Two lovers are trying to kiss through their separate grey hoods, lips never meeting, the cloth dry and suffocating on the tongue. They cannot see each other, they cannot feel each other and they cannot even kiss: it's a masterpiece of sexual frustration. But the cornice above their heads suggests the bourgeois imprisonment of a couple glued together by convention yet also blocked by each other. Perhaps they don't know each other at all. It's the nightmare of a lonely relationship. Those hoods could double as shrouds."

The Guardian