Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Love for name makes one do all sort of things:
Pleasing, caring, helping, serving and so on;
Being virtuous, honest and generous too.
He is not to be branded as selfish;
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Conscious that I am ignorant
Where I am not held to be so,
If I feel shy to confess it
It means I don’t intend to learn.
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Men who grade a woman
For her caliber,
Are influenced by
Her sexual appeal too.
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To feel being ignored
Is the worst suffering.
To counter it is
To feel being spared.
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Better be a beggar elsewhere
Than being a burden to the son.
The humiliation of a stranger
Hurts you not as your son’s does.
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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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