Pattinathar’s Beauty of the Body
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Translated by Poet Kandiah Kumarasamy, Hillside, Victoria, Australia
Sensational urge of a matured male
Surging to merge with a cultured girl
Combined with intimate pleasures
Courts complexity of reflex measures.
Sweet dwelling of loyal love
Submits secrets of human life
Emerging droplets of semen sail
Submerge in the fallopian trail.
Fastest sperm reaches ovum in ovary
Fertilizes as a tiny zygote in armory
Fulfilling the glory of sexual amity
Fostered in the womb with purity.
Eyes, mouth, ears, hands and legs
Parts form one by one in stages
Completing the germinal locking
Delivering in ten months clocking.
Cherished and flourish as silk
Nourished by mother’s breast milk
Grows with graceful cradle affection
Smiling scenes in silent motion.
Baby brings happy moments
Parent’s kisses in torrents
Babble talk in lovely language
Shows sweetly creditable signs.
He leans and drops as a ball
Rolls and crawls like a doll
He picks up words gently
Showing talent intelligently.
During his growth as a child
He mixes and goes little wild
Sitting on the dusty compound
Dangles and falls on the ground.
Reaching the age of five years
Breaches wish of tiny players
Shining as a genius in his prime
Excels in studies of the time.
He reaches the glorious stage
With fine curly hairstyle image
Looking charm to marry a queen
Celebrating the sweet age sixteen.
He is smart in his comeliness
He is sweet in his credentials
He is excellent in his sportsmanship
But succumbed to bad companionship.
Flirting lasses long for his glances
Hinting love by their batting eyes
Showing curves and swirling signs
Swinging dopey ropes around him.
Lured by their beauty and warmness
Vesting on the breasts’ blossom ness
Sulking and clasping in alarming fashion
Kissing with pangs of unending passion.
Rushing flood of lucid love in haste
Flushes his strength to terrible waste
Darting with subservient lustiness
Parting all his earned healthiness.
Indulgence in excessive affronts
Ignoring the dangers fondling
He forgot the lessons he learnt
Addiction accounted to all bungling.
Sweetness goes with his beauty
Wealth goes with the naughty
Sickness starts to envelope
Vigor and figure breaking up.
Beauty of the body
As time goes in ageing tick
He becomes a walking stick
Suffering from several illness
Drag legs with spine weakness.
His words gabble in the mouth
Movements diminish with froth
He has lost his physical ability
And also earned the family enmity.
Coughs disturb his sleeps constantly
Hiccups make him struggle incessantly
Throat and chest dries up frequently
Clothes stripped off unknowingly.
His respect goes for a six
Urchins ridiculing in a fix
Excretion oozing in sprouts
Urine streams in and out.
He looses all his mental balance
He utters something in a trance
Moving with the offensive smell
Reminding the actual sight of hell.
He is worried over his plight
Contents as his irreparable fate
Saliva pours down the mouth
Breath shows nearness of death.
His children feel sorry for his state
Wife mourns without showing distaste
Sudden shudder of throbbing chest
Shirks the majestic soul for a rest.
Body is washed for beauty and clothed
Still the stiffness remains fully loathed
Funeral rites commences in dire haste
Since it is an important customary taste.
Born a single and cried innocent on earth
Shone as a hero and died in no cent worth
Last journey ended with painful mourning
Cremating scandal stains long outstanding.
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