Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Falling in love does you chemical changes.
Wooing, courtship and flirtation be on.
Sexual hormones surge up as the result.
Glands are squeezed and hormones spill over.
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That cannot be sustained,
That cannot be maintained
And that cannot be contained
Should not, from ambitions, be started.
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Men are conditioned to cleave to the gods.
Women are conditioned to cleave to husbands.
No rationales can uproot their tendencies.
These are in the genes, planted long ago..
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Sports were substituted to wars
To release man's killing spirit.
They are harmless, less expensive.
Sportsmen and viewers are thus fed.
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A mother makes her daughter's life
The hell that she had been while young.
Then the mother-in-law takes over it.
Women are jailors to the women jailed.
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I once loved, lulled and played with my baby
And later repeated the same to the grandbaby
With an act of sowing seeds of gratitude.
I feel I've failed my parents and theirs.
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Promises are broken from coercion,
Change of events beyond access or hold
Or the emergence of the priority.
Don't berate the one who broke the promise.
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Animals do not cry over death and loss.
Death and loss are not avenged by them too.
Prosecutors, victims and rescuers unheard,
Sins and punishments are man's handicrafts.
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The story was fictional;
Yet I emoted when I read it.
It is a woman's image;
Yet I was turned on when I saw it.
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