Love, true love or duty

Love, true love or duty
P K Routray

A well known story,
being told and retold to eulogize lover’s glory.
it is being repeated here for a debate,
comparing the significance of this story to a Shakespearian sonnet.
Whether here it is love versus love,
or love versus duty readers may solve.
There was a poor old couple,
their love was intense and youthful.
The lady had lovely long hairs,
the husband loved them more than her ornamental wears.
The husband had a watch with broken and torn band,
It was advertising his poverty because of no watch on his hand.
The lady needed a comb and drier to keep her hair dressed,
The husband required a wrist band for his watch but kept it unexpressed.
On the day of their marriage anniversary, for the celebration,
they went separately to the market with their individual mission.
In the evening they came back to celebrate the function,
with mementos in their hands and with tears of jubilation.
but the husband saw his wife with missing hairs and carrying a lovely wristband,
the wife found her husband had no watch but carrying a drier and comb in his hand.
The husband had purchased the drier and comb by selling the watch,
The wife has sold the hair to get the band for her husband’s watch to match.
Love is not enough if not being loved is the morale, here the story brings,
but “Love is not love which alters when alternation it finds” a Shakespearian sonnet sings.
on the true love and love lasting only with reciprocation,
the question is “Does the true love get revealed only by material presentation?”
The lady here knows the husband loves her hair,
the husband knows for the watch the wife had love and her husband to wear was her desire.
Why is the story then meant to glorify their love?
Readers are requested to interpret the doubts and to resolve.