Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

The deepest is the Pacific, we know.
What are there in the bottom, we know.
Deeper than that is woman’s mind, we know.
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There is no person
Who has not met a person
By whom the person
Wasn’t aroused to feel,
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I have grown enough
To discard belief in God,
Faith in soul and hopes in rituals.
I haven’t grown enough
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Let me grow you till I eat you.
Let me feed you till I kill you.
Let me save you till I use you.
Let me have you each till I die.
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Whither you betake yourself
Thither if I don’t rush myself,
What you long for in bosom
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Dissimilarity be with similarity,
Distance be with nearness and
Strangeness be with familiarity
For love to fire in each pair.
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If you cannot regret for your fault
Then you cannot emote to joy too,
And hence is poor to reason too.
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Women, aren’t you given weight?
You would sure get it one day, wait.
You will put weight when your children
Grow, your husband turning a child.
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Are tiny letters dim to read?
Is wife looking like a sister?
Are you tempted to seduce one?
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I had left my land, my abode,
Many valuables, many pursuits,
All, in times, with little regrets
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