Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

The rise will meet the fall.
The birth will meet the death.
The light will leave the dark.
The reverse is not certain.
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Sometimes, he waits for her
And she eludes him.
Sometimes she expects him
And he avoids her.
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Perception of phenomena
Can change the phenomena perceived.
The world is what we make it.
The world perceived by me is mine.
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No one would like you
When you over eat
Except your mother.
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Marriage is not the safe anchorage
As everyone is taught to believe,
But a voyage in uncharted seas.
Setting out, the couple would know it.
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Freedom from illusion
Is ability
To penetrate ignorance.
Mirage appears
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In a race where low brain boys were running,
One stumbled down on the way attracting
Other boys to stop their race and reach to him.
Lifting him up, they, with him, resumed the race.
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Circles were many
That I’ve left in the course of life.
With them left behind
Were those staunch friends and well wishers.
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Food tempts man when he is hungry.
Woman tempts man otherwise also.
Hunger might tempt man to steal food.
Hunger san too man steals woman;
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Marriage gives a license to the couple
To have sex taken as consensual.
The couple sometimes go along with sex
Even when one of them does not feel like it.
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