In-laws
should be outlawed!
They come in all guises
shapes and sizes.

Some are nice and polite
and accept you for what you are,
and even learn to love you!
(Rare Species : Known to inhabit Planet Earth)

Some are remote and distant
and accept you for what loot
you bring with you!
(Common Species : Inhabits Asian Sub-Continent)

Some are sadistic and believe
God has delivered you into their hands
to unleash all miseries on poor, unsuspecting, you!
(Most Common Species : Native of India)

The unlucky ones are those
married to
‘mama’s boy’
and the lucky ones
are those whose husband’s
have unravelled and cut
the umbilical cord,
found their feet
and fled from under
mama’s flapping wings!

Consider yourself lucky
if you have a father-in-law
who is a man among men,
who will not be brow-beaten
by the harpy whines of
his wife
and judges you solely
on your own merits.
(Should he be hen-pecked,
his misery will soon be yours!)

Consider it ordained blessings
if your mother-in-law
welcomes you
like a daughter into the fold
and continues to treat you proper,
long after your insecure
sisters-in-law
have poisoned her ears
with your wrong-doings
lest you inherit
all the gaudy diamond baubles
that she’s set aside for them!

If you are secure in the
knowledge that your
In-laws
are the best friends you’ve ever had …
Consider yourself
among God’s favoured few
and hum life’s happy tune!
Amen!