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WHAT WE BECAME AFTER WEDDING 💍
<p>We did not change overnight.</p><p>No.</p><p>We shifted.</p><p><br/></p><p>Like land after rain.</p><p>Quiet.</p><p>Unannounced.</p><p>Until even the rivers forgot</p><p>where they used to run.</p><p><br/></p><p>Before the wedding,</p><p>we were morning dew,</p><p>soft on each other’s names,</p><p>careful not to bruise the day.</p><p><br/></p><p>After the vows,</p><p>we became weather.</p><p><br/></p><p>Promises stood tall like palm trees,</p><p>but neglect crept in like termites,</p><p>patient,</p><p>silent,</p><p>chewing at the roots</p><p>while we were busy surviving.</p><p><br/></p><p>Love was still there.</p><p>Do not mistake me.</p><p>Just buried</p><p>under routine,</p><p>under tired evenings,</p><p>under questions</p><p>we were too exhausted to ask.</p><p><br/></p><p>They say,</p><p>“the pot that cooks the soup</p><p>is the first to feel the heat.”</p><p>Marriage taught us that early.</p><p><br/></p><p>We argued like harmattan winds,</p><p>dry,</p><p>dusty,</p><p>throwing words into each other’s eyes</p><p>until nobody could see clearly.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then silence came.</p><p>Long silence.</p><p>Punishing silence.</p><p>Silence pretending to be peace.</p><p><br/></p><p>Mahatma Gandhi said,</p><p>“Where there is love, there is life.”</p><p>And we were alive,</p><p>yes,</p><p>but still learning</p><p>how to love without wounding.</p><p><br/></p><p>We stopped listening to the birds.</p><p>Stopped noticing</p><p>how the sky changes colors</p><p>before night arrives.</p><p>We wanted permanence</p><p>but forgot</p><p>that even nature survives</p><p>by adapting.</p><p><br/></p><p>Resentment grew like weeds</p><p>in an unattended garden.</p><p>Small issues became forests.</p><p>We walked past each other</p><p>and called it normal.</p><p><br/></p><p>There is an adage that says,</p><p>“when two elephants fight,</p><p>the grass suffers.”</p><p>And in our home,</p><p>the grass was tenderness.</p><p>The grass was laughter.</p><p>The grass was us.</p><p><br/></p><p>Society spoke too.</p><p>About timelines.</p><p>About milestones.</p><p>About what successful couples do.</p><p>Family asked</p><p>when we would have children,</p><p>when we would finally settle.</p><p>Their voices became background noise</p><p>and somewhere along the way</p><p>we forgot our own song.</p><p><br/></p><p>But nature is patient.</p><p><br/></p><p>After wildfire,</p><p>the earth still breathes green.</p><p>After storms,</p><p>the river finds its voice again.</p><p><br/></p><p>So we are learning now</p><p>to become rainfall instead of thunder.</p><p>To bend like bamboo</p><p>instead of breaking like dry branches.</p><p>To speak gently,</p><p>the way evening speaks to the sun.</p><p><br/></p><p>Marriage did not ruin us.</p><p>It revealed us.</p><p>It showed us who we were</p><p>when the music stopped</p><p>and life asked us to stay.</p><p><br/></p><p>What we became after the wedding</p><p>was not less in love,</p><p>just more human.</p><p><br/></p><p>And like the earth,</p><p>we are learning again</p><p>how to bloom.</p>
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