Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Beaming at the growth of my child,
I forgot about myself aging
Till I found I grew pretty old.
Childless I’d have enjoyed my youth.
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Someone would remember me:
My stomach goes full.
Someone would be grateful to me:
My stomach goes full.
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To mistake a rope for a snake
Or to mistake a snake for a rope
Is illusion in perception.
To take a rope for rope and
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A class mate of mine is extremely rich.
One of my cousins has grown powerful.
A village mate is a judge in the High Court.
None of them is in my contact list.
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I have let go some unpunished and
Some forgiven; they aren’t my kin.
Mustn’t I forgive my love?
He hid the truth to gain my love.
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A beauty queen of silver screen
Of Hollywood came down to London.
Anna by name, in love she had fallen
At first sight with a guy of London,
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He and she married out of love
And divorced out of bitterness
And again each found the other
Better than their new found partners.
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I know not whence I came, nor why.
I know not whither I go, nor when.
I know sure some of the things around
Inspire me that I pursue, Amen.
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I witness the seasons pass the field.
The same seasons must pass my life also.
I can’t bar winter, nor be shut to spring.
I can’t stay autumn nor be denied summer.
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