Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

He likes it; can he ask for it?
No, it will hurt his pride.
He loves it; can he snatch it?
No, it will split his pride.
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Education is not experience.
Experiment is not experience.
A going through is experience.
Durable are you by experience.
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A woman is biased
As she prefers son to daughter
In the treatment of love.
It is daughter that nurses her.
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One finds someone as a prey,
One is to someone a prey.
A prey can't love its predator.
A predator can't pity its prey.
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Man and woman fell in love to commit,
Married to commit and begot to commit.
They were together throughout to commit.
The other one remained as a widow
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To feed and not to be fed on
Is the pursuit of all the life
Love and hate are parts of one’s flesh.
Interests clash and relations break.
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I depend on you and you do on me.
I depend on him, who is, on someone.
No one is independent of others.
A chain of dependence is the law of nature.
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Believing that I am thought of as good,
Hearing that people speak of me as good,
And seeing that they want me to be good,
I myself drift to being really good
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The wedding is over.
The bride has been brought in.
The mother beamed.
The son has been sold.
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