Culture Poem.

“Will you take her as you lawfully wife?”
“Yes, I do.”
“And will you take him as your lawfully husband?”
Should I or should I not?
To agree on something that somehow
My whole life depends on it?
Change into something I have yet experienced.
But what about my
Culture lay inside of me.

Should I or should I not?
To be with someone I love or be with someone from my own?
To be named English or Chinese?
To be in love or in love
With culture?
Should I or should I not?
To speak with my second tongue
Or stay with my mother tongue?
“Should I?”
“ ?????” (wo ying gai ma?)
Will I?
To commit ‘tis?

“Will you?”
Should I or should I not!
Seeing my ‘to-be’ husband
Waiting for me to say ‘I do’
Seeing other waiting for me
Waiting for me to speak.
Seeing my mother,
Sitting uncomfortably, clutching
Hard on my father’s hand.
Seeing my father,
Trying to let out a growl
For the pain he’s feeling on his hand.

Should I or should I not.
Rebel on my culture
Or hurt my forever love?
Should I or should I not?
Chinese?
English?
Will I?
Should I or should I not?!
“Yes…”
OH! Screw it.
“I do.”