Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

One gives you a gift; another takes it.
One gives you one's heart; someone gets yours.
One rescues you; another traps you.
You do good ones and harm and receive likewise.
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The bone and the dog;
The mare and the horse;
The calf and the cow;
Which commands which?
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I wish I die outside the house I built
With the body not brought to the house
Lest the body laid site should haunts inmates.
The old house where my parents died, scares me.
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Basic wants kept, one can be happy.
With no ill health, one can be happy.
To care and to be cared, must there be some.
No misfortune must come to upset one.
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Guttenberg invented the printing press.
Oral media gave way to written media.
Internet social media has come in.
Written media gives way to oral media.
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The polity and the governance are,
Which are influenced to a greater extent
By demands made by the privileged
Community, a minority,
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Infinity exists in finite things.
It is in the seed that leads to a tree.
It is in the egg that yields to a hen.
Infinite life force lives in finite bodies.
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Man and woman who find more fun
Between the sheets, sensing the heat,
Will require no entertainments,
Nor discontents nor depression.
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Feeling of guilt can interfere with sex.
Performance anxiety can spoil the fun.
Erectile Dysfunctions can abort sex.
Vaginismus condition can fail sex.
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The world is a web; things are connected,
Animate and inanimate, into it.
Each one is a prey and a predator.
No happiness is exclusive to one.
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