Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

The stigma is worse than the fear;
The fear is worse than the cure;
The cure is worse than the pest;
It is Covid 19 the virus.
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The earliest Sanskrit speakers
Who came to India through Kibar Pass
From Central Asia
Some three thousand years ago
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People were there after whom were named
The streets, the townships and the city
Like Washington for their eminence.
A quarter of the world on the land
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Till i attained the age of eighty
I had no idea that a man
Of eighty can have sexual desire
And penetrative sex with woman.
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The birth is pleasant; the death is tragic
Birth can't escape death and death is deadly.
Death at the hand of predator is cruel.
Every birth is a kiss and death, a slap.
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Poultry, piggery and diary
Are run by man to earn profit.
Laying, fattening and milking
Are pursued to multiple profit.
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Pelted with rain, tree will not weep.
Pelted with kicks, mum will not sulk.
Scorned by girls, boys will not mind.
Pestered by boys, girls bask in pride.
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God was born out of imagination;
Religions and languages followed suit.
Nation was born from imagination.
Rewards and punishments followed suit.
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History has no present, no future.
It has only the past which's not exact.
It will take the colour of the writers.
History is a story with some facts.
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The master told me that God exists not.
He bid me not to tell his servants of it.
‘If they knew it they would defy my says
And would revolt and kill me.', whispered he.
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