Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

I had a pain, unspeakable
when you have left me.
I have it as a pleasurable pain
As the umbilical cord was not cut.
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Warriors brave injuries;
Athletes dare hazards;
Women bare pain of delivery;
Lovers, likewise, risk safety.
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As the sun set, you went out
With the promise to set out
As the moon to dispel my doubt,
The night when you left me.
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He had a taste for her; his desire caught fire.
He was mad for her echo; his fire grew violent.
He elicited her nod; his fire went ablaze.
He found her moving out; his fire remained intense.
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I wish I was a woman.
I could then kill men by my looks.
No, let me what I am.
Seeing woman is sexy.
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As a lad I set my eyes upon girls
With radiant faces. For a kiss?

As a youth I cast my eyes on damsels,
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Tigers sleep, deer sleep,
Cats sleep, rats sleep,
The water sleeps, the earth sleeps,
Everything sleeps when the sun sleeps.
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When husband and wife practise sex
for procreation, sets in perversion.
When they prefer to have sex
as recreation, sets in aversion.
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From impulse, she desires you.
From guilt, she stays you.
From fear, she avoids you.
From others’ suspicion,
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Society is resistant.
But for it, where is your pride?
Without it, where is identity?
In privacy, where is intimacy?
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