Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

I wish I was a woman.
How men are mad of women!
I’m proud of being a man.
What a pleasure I go through
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I don’t share my ignorance
With the people under me,
Like that I do with close friends.
I don’t praise the quality
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A meat eater is guiltier than a butcher.
An ivory trader is guiltier than a poacher.
A consumer is guiltier than a smuggler.
The end users have power to set right.
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Every house is abound
With tales of the ancestors
Who were its inhabitants
And whose spirits hover there.
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Each day we grow farther from birth.
Each day we move closer to death.
The journey’s length is uncertain.
What you want to do, do it now.
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I pay debts, not as much as I could
But as much as I preferred.
I am honest, not as much as I should
But as much as it suited.
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Frowns evoked frowns.
Words invited words.
Blows fetched blows.
Blood bought blood.
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Dancing stimulates a man to make
His woman feel like she’s the only woman
That matters to him.
Courtship encourages a man to make
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Your love for someone is not absolute
Nor is your hate for someone absolute.
Love is dominant with hate recessive.
Hate is dominant with love recessive.
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Once there were singing birds with me.
Then it was my spring.
Then there were perching birds with me.
Then it was my summer.
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