Days of Jacob's Labor

Relationship for marriage yesterday was not about sex but mutual respect and good acquaintance before wedlock But our society today's is the opposite.

The two affectionate ones
Could never meet
No matter how much covalent
They were, for disgrace to come
To her parents was the highest ingratitude;
So to not break the 'Command with a promise',
He traced her man dog to her keeper
For the dear sake of benediction.

It was an alma matter by then, a pride
When going home unpon completion
Of the task, a bride's price
Or forty- eight dollars cash given;
To have legal right to band
A blithe moment to return
A white cloth to her keepers
A pride it was by then.

But ah! No white cloth we return,
No labor we complete;
And no bride's price we pay-
But diving on these nannies putting forth kids
Careless about benedictions.

© 2017 Rubein Geterminah

Author's Note

The poem speaks of the value systems of yesterday's way of finding love and the longitivities it brought to the family.
Marriage was important and children were born mostly in marriage.
But today's society calls for the opposite.