Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

There’s a subtle difference
Between mother’s love and wife’s.
Mother couldn’t relinquish love.
Wife couldn’t postpone her claim.
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With a set of kin she came.
With a set of kin I came.
We joined and brought out our kin.
With the kin evolved from us,
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Are women still bound by men?
Are men still bound by god men?
The root cause is religions.
Don’t make laws; attack the roots.
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Some are generous and some grateful.
It is there nature and will not alter.
Woman looks for man who is generous
As she is for comforts and cushion.
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Gold retains its value.
Change of hands matters not.
Sold or stolen, it has value.
Now man sees woman as gold.
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Love robed, shared,
Denied and turned down
Are sore and occur
More often than not.
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She introduced to me her two daughters,
Who came with their teen age daughters today.
They made friends with me so fast in no time,
Perhaps, from their mother’s feeding of me.
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Lovers don’t believe they should take
One defeat in one’s love affair
So much to heart as not to wish
Any more love with anyone in life.
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Don’t lend value to the one
Who earns and spends a lot,
Who possess everything hot
And who does fraud and grow great.
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Parliament enacts
The Anticorruption Bill.
Prisoners make fence
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