Why Are You Dearer? Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Why Are You Dearer?



In vision my daughter resembles you.
Is it why that I take you near?

But a difference, I know you only as an adult.
Is it why that I hold you dear?

You are all, who made me a decade younger.
Is it why that I crave being near and dear?

Whatever it be, Oedipus complex or otherwise,
To remain nearer you is to me dearer.

While you depart
Way back I revert.
How to forget?
17.05.99, Palakkad

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Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

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Aravayal, karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, South India
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