Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

The slaughter of the weak brings out the great.
The robbery of the meek brings out the rich.
The exploitation of the poor makes leaders.
Slavery of the subjects powers the king.
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Fake beggars liquidate beggars.
Real beggars are taken for fake.
Duplicates engulf originals.
Imitation
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The dome of the temple
Is designed after the tomb.
Gods are decorated
The way the dead body is.
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Who is worshiped matters not
When faith in it rules supreme.
Monkey gods, elephant gods,
Snake gods and so pull the crowd.
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Crime breeds in the slums.
Apathy incubates in the suburbs.
Criminals grow unchecked.
Innocents are put to slaughter.
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Premarital sex, consensual,
In close age group, in equal rank
Or in similar power dynamics
Cannot be branded as a rape
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He's a peculiar eye for women.
He tends to see women not as they are
But as he wishes them to appear to him.
Any woman he makes as his liking.
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The right to criticize
Does not involve power
To do better than that.
We abound with critics.
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Reputations are weeds
In the soil of ignorance.
Bravery is the weeds
In the soil of slavery.
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"I like him to ask for my hand.
Can you tell him to propose love
Without his knowing my liking? "
Struck by his look, she told her friend.
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