Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

He desires her, who denies him entry.
She desires him, whom she denies entry.
He starves and she fasts, food wasting.
Starving is suffering; fasting is over powering.
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Post death, your photo might hang on the wall
If you had children to survive you.
Endowed with wealth, bereft of issues,
Your photos would be cast along with the corpse.
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Tigers and foxes are protected.
They are neither meek nor useful.
Goats and fowls are slaughtered.
Meek and useful though they are.
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Great men are known but their wives aren’t.
Great women are known but their husbands aren’t.
Great men’s parents and children too aren’t known.
Great men don’t bother but their kin would.
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Man wants to be a woman puller;
Else, he becomes a womanizer.
Yet he abhors other men for this.
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Two women were washing on a river bank,
To which was approaching a handsome man.
Their eyes glanced up for his attention.
Attention secured, watching them assured,
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Importance is not goodness.
It is a quality entailing
Attention or recognition.
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Not her appearance to him,
Nor his admiration for her
But his deprivation of her
Prompts him to write well about her.
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The word bastard has lost its stigma.
Having child without marriage is no more a sin
Single motherhood has come as a welcome sign.
The yoke of marriage is dispensed with.
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Marriage is found to take a toll
On one’s sexual life, it is true.
However supportive and kind
He is to her and she is to him,
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