Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

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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I exert hatred through abuse and curse.
I leak hatred by sulks and silence.
Gossips and revenge are other outlets.
Hatred explodes in quarrels and slanders
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Parents have interfered with me;
Wife has interfered. So have children.
Else their company could have been nice.
I didn’t know that I too did them same.
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With belief we buy;
With trust we save.
With hope we sow;
With faith we love.
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Love costs leisure and treasure.
To earn a woman’s love is hard
And is harder to retain it.
It waits for a pinch to burst.
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A death next door matters more
Than a disaster elsewhere.
A woman next door excites more
Than a beauty queen elsewhere.
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Hospitals are run for a profit.
Colleges are run for a profit.
Temples are run for a profit.
I must swindle to pay them.
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Death and threat
Evaporate your morals.
Sex and lust
Drive away your morals.
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