A Poet's Counsel
Purananuru 45
Your enemy is not the kind who wears
the white leaf of the tall palmyra
nor the kind who wears garlands
from the black-branched neem trees.
Your chaplets are made of laburnum,
your enemies are made of laburnum too.
When one of you loses
the family loses,
and it is not possible
for both to win.
Your ways show no sense of family:
they will serve only to thrill
alien kings
whose chariots are bannered,
like your own.
Your enemy is not the kind who wears
the white leaf of the tall palmyra
nor the kind who wears garlands
from the black-branched neem trees.
Your chaplets are made of laburnum,
your enemies are made of laburnum too.
When one of you loses
the family loses,
and it is not possible
for both to win.
Your ways show no sense of family:
they will serve only to thrill
alien kings
whose chariots are bannered,
like your own.
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