Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Your past is of no concern to me.
So must be mine to you.
You can reveal to me as much
As you are comfortable to.
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Maybe you aren’t a virgin;
Maybe you are a divorcee,
A widow or an estranged one.
I don’t mind; I love not your past.
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Lords have been refused by maids.
Have maids been refused by lords?
Withholding is woman’s power.
Approaching is man’s weakness.
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Some animals hide by their colours
To prey and some do to escape.
When there is no means to be honest,
Dishonesty is the next best for a living.
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,
Sincerity, simplicity, veracity,
Equanimity, fixity, adaptability,
Non-irritability, humility, tenacity,
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While playing with a doll
The child would fantasize
That it tends its child.
While mating with his wife
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As organs are built up on carbon
Organs are nothing but carban.
Humours are built up on sorrow.
Humour is nothing but sorrow.
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As a chivalrous, a man acts in the beginning.
As a chauvinist, he turns out in the end.
That is why women have reservation about him
Men still are tireless in their pursuits.
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An edited truth is as good as a lie.
It goes undetected unlike the lies,
The lie amalgamating to the truth.
Histories and biographies are thus made.
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A woman judges
How you would handle her body
By how you handle the steering
While you drive with her.
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