Undamaging Love Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Lady, I love you;
You are terrible!
I can’t spell it out
So I say you’re nice
In your clothes and jewels.

I long for your love.
To get it, I love
Everything you love
More than you do love,
And explicitly.

I cannot please you
With cares and words
So I shower them
On your children
And see your eyes’ nod.

I cannot reach you
So I reach your kids
Taking them on arms
Or holding by hand
And see your lip’s stretch.

You have approved of
All my acts and deeds
Fully knowingly.
It is quite enough;
I feel we’ve joined

Let it continue
Till it continues,
As by it we’re fed
With the food of sex
That kept hormones in spate.
25.07.2006