Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Everyone as comes to you
As a friend is a thief,
Tiptoeing away
With more than what he brings.
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This stage will change
At any stage.
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I drained my blood
To make fly so high
My chicks in the sky.
They did, now out of sight.
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A title makes you
Bigger than what you are.
Then it leaves you
Less than what you can be.
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If you have been deceived,
It means you trusted too far.
If you have been in torment,
It means you trusted too little.
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The right to ask is not the right to get.
The right to give is not the right to accept.
The right to love is not the right to fetch it.
Understand this to avoid tussles.
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When you have many loving you,
I shall be one of them.
If it is only one loving you,
That will be I only.
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There are two ways to move in-
The one to believe everything
And the other to disbelieve everything.
In both you are safe from thinking.
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The arrogant must choose a god
And must worship with all vehemence
Publicly and deliberately,
To appear to others as god fearing.
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To go without a reputation is a shame.
To lose the reputation is much more.
Shamelessness is the animalism,
Permissible only in sexual acts.
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