Kill Your Suicidal Thought Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

I don’t rent the rooms
in the second floor of my house
to software engineers
as the moods of the techies
oscillate often from risk-taking
to risk aversion, to win over death.
They jump down from the top floor
or pass time hanging on to boy-friends
as masked - pillion- riders on motor- bikes
as to save the boys from slipping into
the lustful chasm of imagination. 11

I am not bad to up the rent
if the people seem good.
But the soft brains of the IT parks
take hard steps in a few seconds
to knock the doors of hell
breaking on the road their priceless skull
leaving their parents wreathed in sorrow.
Are the women’s hostels portals to burial sites?
Every month a girl breaks loose
and be rused to tie the noose around her neck
or gulps down the bottle full of poison
refusing the chance to boys to throw acid
on their beautiful faces! The courts go empty
and the advocates roam at the entrance
looking for the cases bringing plenty. 26

My God! Don’t say these things happen
due to work- pressure at the tech-park
or vexing love-fissure
or the rising demand of dowry-treasure!
You move to some other job
when your brain breathes hard to bear the load.
You chase another mad chap
if the present one is untraceable.
Otherwise wait till your parents choose.
We can’t keep ever the door to top-floor shut
or let a sentry-dog pull your dress
for stopping you from leaping off the top.
We don’t want to be harassed
by the pestering cops or land in jails
being booked under some cooked up myths. 41

When hackers do crimes of wonder
in the wide, horizonless cyber space
why can’t you delve into Cryptography
for finding something useful
to inculcate a cyber-hygiene
to the next generation as a boy
who spot out a harmful bug in the face -book.
Keep off your mind from revolving around
the core thought of suicide.
Starving is less painful, in case you lose a job
than the agony of terrible death.
Relieve yourself from that gripping gloom
and walk with smiles in newer domains. 54.