The Vows
written by: Shalini Gupta
Let us
Be friends before lovers
Discover our passion before we get passionate
Help others before we help each other
Smile at strangers before we gaze at each other
Halve our sorrows before doubling our joys
Bare our thoughts before our bodies
Be comfortable in solitude before togetherness
Set healthy boundaries before they merge into each other
Cherish sunrises before we slip into our sunset years
Take baby steps in the same direction
Shalini Gupta lives in the serene small town of Pondicherry in India. In her erstwhile life, as a journalist, she used to run around asking people questions and putting the answers together in what she called a story. Now she spends her time doing nothing, except when inspiration strikes and then she paints, crafts, sings and even dances.
