Infidelity Is Natural Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Does a one night stand with a stranger count
Or an emotional entanglement
With a friend without a corporal touch?
Men more than a half and women less than a half
Nurture emotional affairs outside.
One fifth of either sex is having sex
With other than the spouse sometimes in life.
The wholesome bread winners are most likely
To cheat their partners, be it he or she.
Men and women in external affairs
Are tolerant with their partner's transgression,
To protect their relationships on love.

However, being unfaithful to the spouse
Is an emotional burden to bear.
One falls for the other not that the one
Is more attractive than the one owned,
Not that there is no domestic harmony,
Not that there is no sexual eagerness.
To find self-worth in someone's acceptence
Is a thrill, with a license to be erotic.
Living with an attractive chaste partner,
Lovely kids, royal connections,
Status and financial security,
One still wants to risk them all for a fling.

The paramour may be inferior
To one's spouse in worth, status or caste
Or far younger or older age wise
And yet is desired, to have liberty
And thrill in having sex with such persons.
Adultery can be held as the revenge
Of the deserted one against one's spouse.
Monogamy entails polygamy.

Often people do not want to break home
On account of their external affairs.
Variety is spice and curiosity, a spike.
Cheating will stay forever as natural.
10.09.2017