Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Someone would remember me:
My stomach goes full.
Someone would be grateful to me:
My stomach goes full.
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To snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
Is easy, that any fool can perform.
To snatch victory from limbs of the weak
Is not that much easy as the might think.
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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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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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I have will and you have will.
My will tries to prevail upon you
And yours on me in turn
And there’s a tug-of-war.
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Habituated in masturbation,
I have lost taste in copulation.
Trained in fantasy enjoying porn,
I have lost taste for corporal union.
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