Marriage Kills

This Novel is about Birth Marriage & Death

Few centuries after today,

Who reads every word I say

In this novel of the past glories?

You're astonished to discover,

Our superstitions and blunder,

Reckon them as your histories.

Cruel tyranny of the mighty prevailed,

Grievance of the oppressed never upheld

Couldn't breathe, with knees on their neck.

You've banned rules of a formal marriage,

You save all sperms, eggs in cold storage

In Vitro Fertilisation for generations to make.

Saving their sperms, eggs in banks of hospitals,

Get sterilized new generations of guys and gals,

No child gets born; relish sex - no marriages.

Pure love with no hidden intentions,

Produce no unwanted daughters-sons

Neither the men nor the women are slaves.

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Pitch

Imagine, I have been arrested for organising mass disobedience of visa regulations at every international airport. Forensic probes into my memoirs have discovered how I developed the vision of moving across all boundaries.

Many voices, pictures and videos are extracted from my memory - conscious, sub-conscious, even unconscious. Investigators weren't sure whether or not the events, recorded in my memory did actually happen, or my brain thought that they happened.

Apparently, at young age I started following all rules and regulations of my society and my country - India; I was ignorant about the world beyond. My goals were to get a good job, a good wife and a happy married life thereafter. I got a good degree and a good job. Parents got me married to a suitable girl - Subhadra.

Subhadra had friends in many men and women, for whom she would do anything, often taking advantage of her marital status and her husband's time and resources. Often she made herself sexually available to male friends while she hated her husband's proximity. She remained married primarily for her husband's resources and protection. I, Subhadra's husband, couldn't afford the legal battle for divorce. I tried to get jobs at remote cities, but that did not help. Either Subhadra lived with her parents or her relatives crowded my place.

After getting desperate, I planned to leave the country for a better life elsewhere in the world; Subhadra tried hard to dissuade me, but I was determined to try my luck across country boundaries, even without Subhadra. Subhadra and her parents could read my mind and she consented to leave the country with me.

Situations were marginally better in the new country; Subhadra never treated me as her beloved husband. I looked around and found that I was not alone; most persons have never loved their spouses, but enjoyed their marital status. I developed a vision for having one big family in the entire world, so that no person is exploited by the legal spouse - Know No Country Boundaries - Know No Family Boundaries.

After striving for years to establish marriageless societies in the borderless world, I felt these goals are not achievable in my lifetime, while as I grow older and older, I become more and more dependent on the facilities available in developed countries and it becomes more and more difficult to leave Subhadra and start living in another country.

Borrow wings to let you fly.

The old needn't wait to die.