Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Death and threat
Evaporate your morals.
Sex and lust
Drive away your morals.
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I seek young women for friendship.
I sublimate my sexual urge.
They call me uncle or father
And put a seal to my yearnings.
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The death is a test
Everyone must write.
Marks, he cannot know.
Must he prepare well?
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Loyalty yields to self-preservation.
And gets the better of self-preservation
When shame overtakes self-preservation.
One would die for one’s shame in others’ eyes.
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It is hard to become a courtier
But dead easy to fall out of fevour
If right people aren’t flattered rightly.
To hang high is a suicidal attempt.
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Neither a lover nor a beloved be,
For love oft loses both itself and person.
Intimacy dulls the edge of passion.
Flirt with a light heart, keeping a distance.
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Maybe I am spineless and passionless;
Maybe I am an introvert and mean.
It does not hurt others. Must I suffer
For what I was not? Let me be as I’m.
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My parents did me. I repeated it
To my children. I did my parents.
My children would repeat it to me.
If it’s not proportionate; it’s my curse.
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Models are there; actresses are there.
Good looking women are everywhere.
They desire tempting men with their assets.
They don’t love men, rather demean men.
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