Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

I bought the love of my children
With my toils and sacrifices.
I beg their love in my last stage
By keeping them in good humour..
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The headlight of a car
Can throw light not afar
But, say, thirty yards.
With that in a pitch dark road
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Fear of death is not overcome
Till death comes to everyone.
Death only binds you to worries,
Miseries, slaveries and religion.
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For mating, sexual attraction will do.
Only for the marriage, that binds the two,
Social, cultural and emotional
Compatibilities are required.
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The loved one does not love me back;
The loving one does not get my love.
Who you love and who loves you
Aren’t one and the same person.
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Youths have been intoxicated
With the glory of dying in war.
Women have been intoxicated
With the virtue of being chaste.
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Boys!
Be confident of your skills;
Half the beauty you’ve got.
Be self-confident of your deeds;
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To speak bad of someone
Is not a fact finding one.
It is hatred for him
That makes you speak like that.
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Childless for a decade and so cursed,
The wife slept with a stranger for a night
And bore a child to prove her fertility,
And thus hid her husband’s impotency.
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