Harness the senses

To be after pleasure
Takes you to addiction.
To cherish the desire
Sends you to obsession.
To brood over annoyance
Turns you into rage.
All ripened, you will rot.
All at naught, you will distaste.
15.03.2000, Palakkad

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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