We Tamils

We Tamils

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We Tamils with burdening

weighty load of several centuries

on our back

travel carrying our words,

claiming a supremacy;
We cross all the oceans.
With our words; we presume

Winning bread, comforts, and respect
But  the noise of deafening waves
Jeer how we  speak of how aged it is,
of the ocean power which  gave  us songs.
We sing again of our respect
Claiming  it our kin .

-Vaiyavan