Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi Poems

Handmade Swiss watch may show the same time,
As the mass produced watches holding cheap chips,
But the former may run to last for generations,
The latter may collapse, but we will buy the next one.
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My heart is not sculptured resembling your face,
Still it says your name seventy two times,
A minute, the love flows through the four chambers,
Looking for your heart that is safe as the deposit,
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At last the day has come for you all to decide,
Whom you like the most and want to elect,
Republicans speak the theory of convenience,
Completely forgot the cause of their creation,
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When you are too rigid, you can be broken,
Please don't tell that I am the reason.
When you are too viscous, you can be the grease,
Spread between two surfaces, in hinges and bolts and nuts,
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As my happiness is within you,
I can't be happy without you.
Happiness is dormant as the seeds do,
While waiting for the climate to sprout,
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The Fear seed is miniscule when planted in the brain,
The farmers are the concerned parents and relations,
To teach the children to obey, this seed is sown,
To make the kids timid, these seedlings are strewn.
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Let us roam on the Snow Mountains,
Where not blessed with fountains,
Let our love not frozen, our Kingdom,
Be adorned with the hearts full of freedom,
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I have the routine jobs to do,
It is too early for me to burst.
Tiny human have the hope,
They struggle with the dope.
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Fences are erected covering all nooks and corners,
A few are barbed and others are fixed with doors,
All are invisible, just in front of us, hard to walk through,
As if a solution exist to the existing problems those are tough.
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The butterflies arrive to suck the nectar,
Leaving the hosts empty, bruised and sore,
The cockroaches are sneaky and not only eat the waste,
Also the best, discharging the odorous pellets,
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