Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Desire reins fear
And fear, desire.
As desire succeeds,
Fear subsides and vise versa.
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Let children play football or basketball.
They would experience camaraderie,
Team spirit and togetherness.
They would learn bearing failures and defeats
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Don’t hit at all;
Don’t beg at all;
Don’t steal at all;
Don’t cheat at all.
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There is meaning if I dread depth.
There is meaning if I dread beasts.
There is risk of hurts to the body.
Must I dread death that leaves no hurts?
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She likes listening to you
And then talking with you.
She acknowledges your presence
And then grants her presence.
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In your presence I am silent
And in my presence you are.
Between us silence is comfortable.
Is not it itself a proof
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If I forget,
The earth may forget the Sun and the Moon.
If I forget
The sweet heart I revolved round for breath,
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I dare not show you my love;
I dare not tell or write
About my love to you either.
Instead, I cry in poems:
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You are the vowels and I, consonants;
When was the word formed?
It must have, perhaps, in our first meet.
You are cotton and I, fire,
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