Around your neck is tied a thali,
Which we may think is dominating and silly;
Bu it’s actual meaning differs,
For an unconditional love it refers.
The two ends do not symbolize the tangling,
Nor the confinement around your neck and your life dangling;
It is not a knot to knot,
But a knot that we both are caught;
Caught, not to get out,
But to allow our love sprout;
May our love always, remain cute,
As the envying minds go acute,
Our families come together as one,
To harmonize in God’s most beautiful tone;
Let us together:
Live a life in love and in strife,
For the others as husband and wife;
But for us as independent lovers,
Living in our heart-made bowers;
With a heart filled with love,
Sent as a gift from God above,
Making ‘you and I,’ we,
In God now and forever be…
-Vinod Shemron