Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

To conquer the world is to conquer the mind.
I’ve conquered my mind and I’m its master.
So I could silence my conscience at will,
Imprison qualm and put to death shame.
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Socrates was put to death;
He was charged to have corrupted the youth.
Giordano was burnt to death.
He was charged to have been a heretic.
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My mother loves me more than my wife.
I love my mother more than my wife.
I have decided to lean on my wife,
A stake lasting longer than my mother.
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I have written her many poems of love.
I treasure their copies to read again.
She must have kept my poems to her chest.
That feelings keep me going brisk and smart.
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The one who is not blind is the one
Who will not be blind to the truth.
And whose jealousy won’t blind him.
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I hate those who fail to stand
To my expectations.
The cause is in me not in them.
I must curtail my expectations.
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Stigma attached to widowhood removed,
No woman would care to nurse her husband.
Disgrace clung to divorce taken away,
No woman would tolerate her husband.
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Merit exists in relativity.
Urge to grow exists in rivalry.
Both are bad in their resultant effects.
Residues are prejudice and enmities.
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God and shepherd aren’t different
In that both protect their subjects
For ultimate termination.
Men and sheep have faith in their masters.
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