When I Didn'T Know Pirs Don'T Marry Others

O love! How was it before! When we were free… That Nature’s our yard; And played whole days, the lovely love games. When something like ‘society’ we didn’t know; When our families had no role. When I didn’t know, your religious father’s as rigid And your charming brother as proud. When I didn’t know, I must make money—somehow And earn you. When I didn’t know, ‘pirs don’t marry others!’ When I presented you on paper-pieces Sweet fragments, and you Acknowledged with slipping smiles, and chic chuckles, Or loud laughs And called it exaggeration. When we thought it as easy, And fought on phone, on naming our children, I proffered a flimsy female child And you wanted tough boys. (Pir is a clergyman in kashmiri) and they restrain from marrying Muslims of other castes.