It is easy to secure a friendship; <br />To maintain it is a hard task. <br />It is easy to procure love; <br />To sustain it is a great risk. <br />Both pleasures demand pains. <br />25.01.2006<br /><br />Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pleasures-and-pains-2/