To Those Who Seek A Partner Poem by Valsa George
To Those Who Seek A Partner
If you are hunting for a spouse
Know it is not an easy task
Getting an ‘ideal’ partner in life
Is not within easy reach, hence ‘sour grapes’!
Quite rarely we come across a pair
Where the man and wife are of the same vibes
How strange are the ways of Fate!
The most incompatible, welded into a pair!
One who has a temper ‘at the tip of his nose’
Comes into the life of one, a paragon of patience
Another lackadaisically lazy and indolent
Gets one diligent and industrious
Again one so simple, frugal and altruistic
Becomes partner to one quite greedy
Yet another, humorous, sociable and outgoing
Fated to live with one morbidly dull and withdrawn
One beautifully slim with an hourglass figure
Becomes spouse to one so grossly overweight
Always remember,
The adage and never dismiss it as a cliché
“If you fail to get what you like,
Learn to like what you get”
Unless the couple becomes experts
At the precarious balancing game
Family would surely turn into a war zone
And man and wife would go their separate ways
Whatever be the incompatibility
If you can say it is Okay, even if it is 95% not
And bleach out a blot, never seeing it as an erasable stain
And overlook an aberration out and out,
I say…….
You have won and you are a champion in life!
Off course marriage is a gamble. A most adroit master gambler too may easily lose in it. In spite of that a sizable proportion of wedded couples live a meaningful and happy life though they are not ideal match for each other. Only compromise, here and there, enables them to achieve this miracle. Nice theme with a firm perspective expressed in a lyrical form. Thanks for sharing.
Those who are wedded to educated employee-wife are champions in life from the very beginning. Only a few employed men with partners as housewives are delaying from getting into the fold of 'champions'. When fate plays havoc in human life, what can we mortals do?
Beautiful, humorous and captivating quality in your writing Valsaji. I can't admire it enough. The thought of marriage gives me quite a scare, I tremble like an innocent hare. But your advice is sound, good enough for me to be bound, in the bonds of matrimony And spend all my time and money on that one special bunny...
Ayman Don't see marriage as a snare It is not something to scare It is a life to share With love and mutual care!
Ha ha so true. And I’m so glad that God has a partner to one and all on earth. I’m trying to figure out where I fit and felt like hitting on -The most incompatible, welded into a pair! One who has a temper ‘at the tip of his nose’……(I do have a temper) but I’m comfortable staying just between the lines. Something different. i do believe that Marriages are made in heaven
Ha ha so true. And I’m so glad that God has a partner to one and all on earth. I’m trying to figure out where I fit and felt like hitting on -The most incompatible, welded into a pair! One who has a temper ‘at the tip of his nose’……(I do have a temper) but I’m comfortable staying just between the lines. Something different. I do believe that marriages are made in heaven...
Why don't you write a poem, how to change a wife. Oh! I mean how to change the existing wife. It's a marvelous poem that I should have read about fifty years ago but at that time, I think, Valsa herself did not know how to select someone as a spouse. I quote Jigar Muradabadi- Muhabbat keya hay taseere muhabbat kisko kehte hayn- -Tera majboor kar dena mera majboor ho jana. (What is love and what's the effect of love? It's someone's power to make another one helpless. So helpless I was but it proved to be a nice decision as she proved herself a wonderful and cooperative loving wife, though a bit hysterical nowadays due to her sickness.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/19/2024 11:31:34 PM # 1.0.0.1119
The poem brings to fore your power of observation transformed into words and then into a poetic discourse of great beauty involving human psychology. Following words do guide us: “If you fail to get what you like, Learn to like what you get”
Thank you Rajnish sir for your laudable appraisal of my poem and your high rating!