Another Face Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

I greet you with a smile. You acknowledge.
I congratulate on all your success.
You share with me all your happiness.
I show compassion and give condolence.
We are staunch friends, which everybody knows.
My clock is set to wait for your fall.
I know your weakness on which I pin my hope.
I have another face that I hide from you.
The thing that gnaws at me constantly is
Whether you too have another face hidden.
27.02.2009