Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

You must love to be loved.
You must help to be helped.
You must rescue to be rescued.
These are tendencies inherited.
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My hatred for one begets pity for the other.
My hatred for one fetches love for the other.
My hatred for one begets surrender to the other.
My hatred is evil that balances with good.
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Byproduct of hatred is pity.
Product of pity is love.
The result of love is sacrifice.
Sacrifice is the fulfillment of life.
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My house in a slum is a hut.
To it I return every night.
In it lives as grown stale my mate.
My hut and my mate are a safe bet
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Some physical antipathy
A woman must have with a man
To have a lasting relationship,
Unblemished with sexual stints.
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The past is not the future.
Tomorrow is not yesterday.
Experience is just guidance.
Experience is not recurrence.
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Only in a sexual act,
To feed, to be fed
To feed on and to be fed on
Are amounting to pleasure.
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Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln
Are, this year, two hundred years old.
Darwin’s theory shocked the religions.
Lincoln’s democracy shook the nations.
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The man who is mean [money]
Repels women.
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