Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Be not indignant at one
If he has valued you low
Or less than you expected.
It is his estimate of you.
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Till you complete reading
The last page of your life
You could muse and enjoy
The best pages you’ve read.
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Perfection is not existing.
It is mere the conjure of mind,
Triggered by one’s intelligence.
Discontentment is the result,
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You said that the donkey
Is an object of beauty.
The whole establishment
Might be against that view.
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That day you visited us with your wife.
This day I came to you with my husband.
In both occasions, unknown to our mates,
Our past love buried was resurrected.
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Two trees cannot cling to each other
And two vines do not cling together.
To cling, there be a tree and a vine.
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Sexual adultery is consensual sex;
Yet men are alert to punish it out
As they see in other women their wives
And in men paramours, from jealousy
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Doubts are bad in that
They do not allow your mind to settle.
Certainty too is in that
It does not allow your mind to wake up.
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Unless I myself love you,
I cannot love you
Simply because you love me.
Unless you yourself love me,
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A plastic surgeon can make you beautiful;
A psychiatric too can do the same job.
Fear of law can spare you punishment;
Fear of guilt too can do you the same.
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