Daughter its late to get married now

Sweetie your age is almost gone

You need to get married now, its quit late

whenever season of marriage comes, my heart beats faster

when someone talks of marriage, my heart  beats faster

when friends in my town get married

then my parents get worried and say

sweetie you are getting older

it’s getting late.

as if human existence is only to get married

as if one will get world after getting married

they say few years of marriage life is fun

but later it becomes like cage, though it’s made up of gold

when i hear of these stories, i get worried

in spite of that mom dad repeat same thing

sweetie you are getting older

its getting late.

when daughter gets twenty whole family and relatives rush

and say, every year marriage proposals will come less

after twenty five you will get no proposals at all

you will not get chance to choose among many

people seek for youth for marriage

i think of all these and murmur

is there any value of good heart, innocence, and humanity?

and a voice comes

daughter your age is almost gone

your little sister too is getting older

and its getting late !!

mom dad provided school and university education whole life with patience and hard work

when study is in the verse of completion

all relatives get interested and ask

oh your study is completing now

you are getting older

they bring offers of boys from USA, Australia

or of some government servant

I also have dream to serve my parents, after study

as a daughter i want to help them

want to pay them back from my side for their lifetime support

but once i am able to do something all are ready to get me married

they want to send me to some unknown home with unknown man

no one wants to hear my voice

all say same old utterance

sweetie you are getting older

you wanted to study and you did it

now its getting late

sometimes i become jealous of all those boys

who get opportunity to stay with their parents for whole life

always get opportunity to be around parents

they get opportunity to pay off the debts of parents

i get scared and again and again with these thoughts

i have to choose my life partner by seeing pic of Facebook profile

by seeing job and prosperity i need to choose my husband

alas it would be nice to choose someone by seeing his heart

I have seen many who choose their life partner by seeing FB profile and are crying lifelong

and i have seen those relatives response on that

its late baby, now you are already married, now this is you fate

now live your life cry and make yourself feel calm

now you are done

its quit late

may be i wouldn't be this much negative about marriage

if i have seen all married couple happy ever after

if there is any prince charming for me in my life

i also have little beautiful and cute

desires and dreams

dream of flying like a free bird

only one part of life, study is completed

world of dream is yet to be explored

many steps of passion are yet to be touched

therefore i feel like nothing has gone

so many horizons are yet to be climbed

may be so called marrying age is going

the spirit of living life of passion has not gone yet.

Poem by Babina Sapkota

Translated by Suvas Agam