Adultery Is Not An Adultery Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

A woman may leave her man found bitter.
She may leave him for someone found better.
She thus commits no criminal offence
But uses autonomy and privacy.
Her husband can no more prosecute her
But can apply for their separation suit.
Law cannot impose love on anyone.
Love dead or breached, family life is a hell.
Privacy, consent and autonomy,
Each individual is entitled to in sex.
Adultery is shifted from the criminal
To the civil, rightly, in the land of law.
26.09.2018