Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Estranged parents were away,
In total abandonment from children.
The parents depended for all on the neigbour.
At death, parents bequeathed to their kids.
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To bathe the God,
To clothe the God,
To feed the God,
Out of love, I intend.
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In winter, I crave for summer;
In summer, I crave for winter.
Heat endears cool and cool, the heat.
You are to me heat and cool as well.
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You are a Taj Mahal,
At least to me.
Had I seen you
When I was a child,
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Your eyes are more prominent.
Your cheeks have waxed.
Lips are found more even than then.
Nape is firm; limbs are solid.
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You’re sexier to me, than a year ago.
Does it owe much to my yearlong hunger?
Else, are you, by some one, made happier?
However, I am enlivened to grow.
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Every man desiring any woman
Would wish for physical intimacy.
If he ends in perfection without it,
It is due to reasons beyond his hopes.
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Given the choice of any of three boons-
A day with a winsome star,
A night with a voluptuous woman,
And a meet anew with her-
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With as much desire as that of a lad,
Devours upon young women, an old,
But in turn he only courts neglects.
A severe pathos that corrodes the old.
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Only she is, who was all along reticent
Among the women with me under the roof.
Only she is, whose exit to me is a grief.
Where eyes take, mouth fails. Currents in flow
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