Poetical Justice Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Poetical justice in the literature
Is the virtue wins the war with evils,
The hero is honoured and the villain, punished
And the good will prevail over the bad.

With this in view all epics are created,
All stories are woven, all dramas are staged.
Mythologies speak of incarnations
Appearing and destroying those demons.

Reality unpleasant is not literature.
Literature gives the deprived false hopes
As the gods of mythology do the same.
To enjoy an art, no need to believe it.
14.12.2026