Boring Love

When people get married,

love is fresh like a flower.

Every day feels new,

full of hope and care.

But slowly with time,

family responsibility increases.

Love slowly fades,

but it does not disappear.

Two different people,

from different backgrounds,

with different thinking,

trying to build one life together.

In the early days,

people have each other to run to.

later they run for everything else,

work, children, bills, school fees,

and many daily needs.

Life becomes busy in raising children,

handling work and society problems.

Years pass by slowly,

and they become quiet inside,

as their pain is not always heard.

Slowly family starts feeling,

they are not loved enough,

because life becomes routine,

wake up, work, provide, repeat.

And in the end,

instead of understanding,

One person will get blamed,

for small things, for everything.

Ones effort, his work, his tiredness,

no one would want to see.

But it is easy to say,

“You are a boring person now.”

After years, the one person wonder quietly,

was there love all this while,

did his love become boring,

or did no one have time to feel it anymore?

By

Sanji-Paul Arvind