Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

You get tenfold harvest
Of what you have sown
On plants and animals.
You get one tenth benefit
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When the siblings partition
Their parental property
They will have dismantled
Their sibling affection too.
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To live and to leave the copies,
Energy is stored and spent
In every organism.
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Not to hunt is against instinct.
Not to rob is against instinct.
To steal or to cheat is likewise.
They are survival instincts, though.
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Wealth or power earns you respect.
Virtue or honesty earns you
Sympathy ridden respect.
Knowledge earns you awesome respect.
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Limited to the ignorance
Of the parents and the teachers,
You learn and develop your knowledge.
To the ignorance of the peers,
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The one forgotten, not reminded of,
Not remembered, not recollect able
Or not retained is as good as unborn
In one's memory. Memory is life.
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God is merciless to all living things
On three counts, by which life is tragic.
One has to kill the other for one's food,
Being as a predator and a prey.
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Purging out is a relief.
Escaping is a relief.
Healing is a relief.
Relief is a pleasure
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Listeners give you pride.
Followers give you pride.
Dependents give you pride.
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