How To Be Grateful? Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

How can you be grateful to all the goats
That you have slaughtered and had all along?

How can you be grateful to all kin dead
That you failed to repay the helps received?

How can you be grateful to those absent
And not known now for your debts unpaid them?

How can you be grateful to forefathers
Whom you’ve neglected out of ignorance?

To atone for lapses, be generous
To all who seek helps and expect no returns.
15.01.2014