1106. From Legs to Shoulders

"It appears to me that God has created different parts of your body from different elements!''

"Oh, you have started this again! Ok, go ahead!"

"He has made your legs from the stems of the banana plant."

"Lyricist Kannadasan has already used this description in his song:

'Your legs look like a banana plantation.

Your eyes wander there like a pair of bees'

He has even mentioned how your eyes feast on my legs!"

"Your hip has been made out of a dumb-bell."

"What a simile! Is this supposed to be flattering?"

"You know how a dumb-bell looks! It is wide above and below and narrow in the middle. Your hip is also shaped that way. And above that..."

"Enough talking about my hip. What next?"

"Then, your face. It is the full moon itself. If we dig two small oval-shaped tanks in the moon and have a fish swim in each, we have your eyes."

"My God!"

"See how you are exclaiming 'my God' on realizing how God has created you from various elements!" 

"Will you end this?"

"I will stop after mentioning the most important thing."

"No. I am scared thinking which of my body part you are going to talk about!"

"It is not what you think. It is about your shoulders. Do you know of what material your shoulders are made."

"Considering that you have been leaning on my shoulders for hours together, you seem to think that my shoulders are made from a tree!"

"Your line of thinking is correct but your conclusion is wrong. I am a salesman. Everyday, I meet hundreds of people, talk about my company's product, trying to sell it and end up becoming frustrated at the end of the day at the failure of my efforts. To add insult to the injury, I get a dressing down from my boss for my failure to reach the target. And then I come to meet you, physically and mentally fatigued. But when I lean on your shoulders, I become instantly revitalized, both physically and mentally. When I lean on your shoulders, I get fully recharged and then emerge as as a robust, enthusiastic and excited man. I have heard that only nectar has he power to revitalize people. So, I am convinced that God has made your shoulders out of nectar."

He leaned on her shoulders, pressing his head against them.

She didn't feel any pain.

Thirukkural
Section 3

Love

Chapter 111
The Joy of Being Together in Love

Verse 1106 (in Tamil):
uRu thOrU uyir thaLippath thINdalAl pEthaikku
amizhdhin iyanRana thOL.

Meaning:

Since whenever I embrace her shoulders, they give me a feeling of new life being injected into me, her shoulders should have been made of nectar.

(This is the English version of the Tamil story 'mUlapporuL' by the same author.)

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