Black Can Be Hidden By White Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

You have no regret that you are bulky
If you learn to walk with grace
As does an elephant with its thighs.

You have no regret that you are flat on chest
If you learn to dart like a rabbit,
Which charms by its move, chest unseen.

You have no regret that you are dark
If you chat in singing voice
Of a Koel, whose dark drops to us.

You have no regret that you are dull
If you are useful to your master
Like an ass, who toils are limitless..

If the portrait is good,
the frame from sight is shed.
26.1.2001, Pmdi