Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Men and men are at war.
With women they don’t war.
Women, always men spare
And are keen to take care.
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There must be a woman in brain,
By seeing her in person or from a print
Or by visualization of her image,
Without which there is no arousal,
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He who dies well before
he is unfit to attend on himself,
is blessed with a heaven.
He thus escapes being a burden,
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You feel relieved
when the urge to eat is met.
You feel relieved
When the urge to drink is met.
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There is no sense in wishing to be remembered
By kith and kin or even kids after your death.
You are not there to the joy of being remembered
Or to the hurt of being forgotten. An uncanny wish.
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The red of blood or the red of twilight:
Which do you like?
The blue of corpse or the blue of sky:
Which do you like?
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I gained my parents at my birth.
I gained my brothers and sisters
And then my kids and their kids
Every gain to me was a pleasure.
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I wept and wept, endlessly wept,
Like of which I have never wept
Save at the time of my mother’s death,
While some sequences I read
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The little boy complained to his father
Of his brother, who had beaten him.
Subsided his rages in his belief
That his father would punish him.
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We have got to know more of planets.
Still we believe they are destiny guides.
We learnt the truth of Darwin’s theory.
Still we believe Adam and Eve concept.
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