Kill or Skill?
Spain had a skill.
South Korea had the kill
They played, clashed
In the Korean Soil,
In front of forty thousands
Spectators, in the Quarter
Final of 2002 World Cup
Foot Ball tournament.
Korea beat Spain
By penalty kick.
Kill is stronger than skill
22.06.2002, pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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By kick, shot, pass will not ensure a goal.
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Boxing or Football?
What's your favourite sport Kevin?
as you like Boxing and Football
well they're both exciting to me
so that's a hard one to call.
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a mixture of brawn and skill
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both with the power to kill.
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the worlds greatest team game
no other comes anywhere near
Cricket is slow boring and tame.
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you have to be tough and very fit
take punches to the head and body
and bob and weave and avoid getting hit.
Football is played the world over
on the streets and over the park
children kick a ball for hours
in the rain and in the dark.
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Football has to be the sport for me
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and a packed ground is the place to be.
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but so much better than all the rest.
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To wane the guilt.
Better, stab on one’s back
Than cheat a faithful one.
Better, kill one while asleep
Than exploit the bereaved.
Anger, show to the strong.
Mercy, show to the weak.
Then the guilt is not built.
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Time is come late
Many geniuses faced the penalty of
death.
Many cheats held glory until their death.
Many nobles died by accidents.
Many rogues thrived by incidents.
The world finds it after the event is over.
Time- it does only one thing:
To brood over the past.
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Commenting your weakness.
Those who praise you in front
And those who criticize behind
Do so from their cowardliness.
The strong one does neither of them..
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I taste honey having no taste
The Empress, I made you so.
Maybe others too did.
You get to have right to kill me.
You cannot set to have right
To kill my right to love you.
The Enchantress, I made you so.
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You lock me by your looks.
You wind me by your locks.
You have no right to kill that act.
You bathe in my loving you.
I wilt in my loving you.
Your love lurks intense.
Your words feign innocence.
In both I ambles in exuberance.
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Gaining is losing
To head towards a direction
Is to leave the other directions.
You cannot move towards north
Without moving away from south.
Be prepared to lose while gaining.
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All return to nests.
From ship to boat,
From cot to cradle,
From lawn to kitchen.
A return to pavilion,
Each one crave
Towards their end.
They want to die
In their native soil,
Where only what they were
Can survive their exit,
Not where they inhabited.
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Are you heard?
God forbids men to kill men.
God permits men to kill beasts.
Men are saved and not the beasts.
Don’t they pray to God, as do men?
Hasn’t God listened to them?
Aren’t they as much to Him?
Neither you nor the beasts are heard
It is your misplaced inference
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My Country Lied
I lack the urge but have the skill.
My country taught me how to kill.
I had no choice could not refuse
nobody asked me for my views.
They said my country needed
to subjugate the enemy.
I was still young, green and naïve.
That I was sure I should believe
that what they told me must be true.
That it was something I should do.
But I discovered in due course
we were fighting to enforce
on those with just cause for dissent.
A very unjust settlement,
the promises my country made
and did not keep. We now forbade
their self determination.
The right of every nation,
it was battle we must lose.
The people have the right to choose.
To be an independent state
no longer seen as second rate.
Which they achieved eventually
they were not just a colony.
On looking back it seems to me
my country lied apparently.
An abuse of authority
I will not forget easily.
I lack the urge but have the skill.
My country taught me how to kill.
Though I can say with confidence
I’d only kill in self defence.
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