A Bride's Dilemma

                                                                                             Artist: Marc Chagall

Image: Marc Chagall, Bride with a Fan (1911), 

oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

(courtesy of d'Verse, Poets Pub)

Many may not realize it
We anticipate just as much
To welcome a new beginning
All dressed up but with reservations

Where are we heading?
A bride with myriads of questions
Wanting answers but utterly helpless
All matters had been touched on
Many months preceding today
Arising from many sources
All came with good intentions
 
There was a lot of excitement
Among friends and relatives
There was a lot of teasing
There were a lot of questions
There were a lot of answers
 
Suddenly she finds herself alone
All the answers she received before
Come flooding in now all at once
Overwhelmed her being all confusing
 
In such a mystifying moment
Her recollections of one person
Stood the grounds affording her 

 The confidence – her mother’s

Melissa Lemay at d'Verse, Poets Pub - Don’t box me in: Chagall