Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

I was reluctant to leave home
When I was sent to an old age home.
Used to it, I hate my home.
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Friday is an unlucky day,
When Adam and Eve had eaten
The forbidden fruit for their death
And when Jesus was put to death.
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What I wrote might not appeal,
Might lack flavour and favour
But are ones that reveal my thoughts,
Sentiments and secrets, mind.
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Adi Sankara toiled;
Sri Ramanuja toiled.
What for?
To enjoy the Supreme
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Like you, I want food.
Like you, I want hut.
Like you, I want sex.
Unlike you, I am weak.
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I couldn’t disown my wife, kids and parents,
And even myself, if I went bankrupt.
I have to carry the burdens till the last.
The law forbids. The birth is a gallows.
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She is in focus.
She is with make up.
You are in starvation.
Actresses look more than they are.
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What, if a bride is found not a virgin?
Don’t we desire to play a paramour?
Don’t we lust to make one a cuckold?
She is not poor in taste for that.
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If you left a place you had lived,
It’d be there for you to find at will.
If you left one you lived with
You might not see the one at will again.
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