Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

I don’t feel good when I’m sick.
I feel good when I reveal it.
To get consoled is is sweet,
Which is the reward of illness.
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With low birth, one is conscious
Of one’s birth when with high births
In spite of one’s elevated growth.
With high birth, one is conscious
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Aren’t you bold but timid?
Aren’t you strong but soft?
Aren’t you shrewd but nave?
You will attract more friends.
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Charged for corruption, I slept well.
I can influence witnesses, police,
The prosecution and the judgment
Or at least the jailor or his staff.
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Hope can disappoint you.
Belief can deceive you.
Faith can desert you.
Trust can dislodge you.
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When I earn bread in a foreign kingdom
I feel that I am held as an outcast.
I live with that consciousness all through out.
No amount of luxury can wipe that plague.
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To leave for heaven at sixteen;
To leave for hell at one’s sixty;
One would sure prefer the hell.
The world is sweeter than the both.
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The goat can’t expect mercy from the butcher.
The butcher has no guilt for his act on it.
The weak have necessarily to succumb
To the might, with their right notwithstanding.
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Most of those who have grown great
Were possessing a great deal of
Predatory skills; certainly
Not a desirable trait though.
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Ask. If you are given, it is accidental.
Search. If you have found, it is accidental.
Knock. If it is open, it is the accidental.
Without any prayer too, you might get
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