Five Haikus on Commitment

If a week before

you are to wed, your bethrothed

catches ebola...

If the day of your

nuptials, your wife is burned and

badly disfigured...

If the month after

you marry, your spouse falls and

ends up wheelchair bound...

If a year after

you take your husband's name, you

learn he's schizophrenic...

If your seventeenth

anniversary marks your

nineteenth cancer treatment...

Will you stay or go?

That is all you need to know

of death till us do part.