Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

To get access to what one desires
And part-with not what one possess
Breed among the cultured all evils.
That anyone is free to befriend any
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What we have not
Is what we long for
And wherein we find
What we long for
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He is with his wife
In perfect harmony
Throughout his life
like a man who over-slept
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Her face is no more a moon;
Nor are her eyes twin stars;
Nor is her lock, dark clouds;
Bare are her arms, not gold.
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Pleasure or pain
Is born out of brain.
Grief or ecstasy,
Tears or laughter,
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One seed dies to produce million.
Not to lose is not to gain.

Some die to redeem the rest.
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Gregarious is not the tiger.
Gregarious is not the Banyan.
So is any brave man.
Gregarious is only deer and grass,
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Licking the boot, humble to serve,
Or indulging in art and sex!
Strokes, one had not enough.
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Were you to want
A perpetual harmony
With your spouse
Never probe her past,
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