Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar. - Growth or decay?

‘From hour to hour we ripe and ripe;
From hour to hour we rot and rot.’
The time spent grows and the time left shrinks.
Do we undergo growth or decay?
08.07.2010

Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.

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