Your Visit A Balm Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

You came to me in cotton saree
Knowing that I like you in cotton.
You came to me in new drape
Willing that I should see you in it.
You came to me as I wanted,
Hiding not your guarded curiosity.
The only thing I missed to note
Is you came without the gifted studs,
With which you appeared last.
You are fulfilling the promise
Of presenting yourself as full moon
Once a month, last three months.
You are worth getting any gifts
But the hitch is how you would keep them
From the sight of your spouse,
Which puts me in back seat.
I wait for your call the way the pet
Looks at her master. Invent a way.
30.03.2000, Palakkad