Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Some want to add a title to their names.
They want to be called with the title, then
By the title alone and beam thus called.
Insecure fellows go after titles.
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The best love, the best friend,
The best job and the best style
Are dislodged at every stage
Because of incoming influence.
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Man is more damaging
Than managing the Nature.
Man is more straining
Than maintaining the Nature.
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I must exist, that others should know.
I must grow up, that others should watch.
I must display, that others should see.
This is the demand of the sixth sense.
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Appearance is self-motivation
And to others is an inspiration.
Appearance is self-confidence
And to others is some effectiveness.
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The use of public humiliation
Was an instrument of social control.
Being paraded on a donkey or
Ostracization was some of measures.
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Death is a leveler;
Kings and slaves are leveled
In the graveyard.
Love is leveler;
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In a crowd, he and I stood close,
His foot on mine and mine on his,
Which neither of us was aware of,
I shouted at him and he, at me.
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Merit is money; Justice is money;
Right and might too; money is power.
Money is a rogue, which buys or fell tings.
Even mother to surrogate is bought.
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A woman may end friendship with a man
Not that she smelt sexual colour in it
But that he crossed the border she set,
Or that furthering of it might smell foul.
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