Exeunt Omnes Poem by indira babbellapati

Thank you indira ji, now i got the picture well! ! !

The poem is based on the buddhaz life. The seductive leaf (of the Bodhi Tree) z symbolic of how the urge to free one's self from the tantalizing physicality of self teases the mortals. The muffled cries, unrealized passion is of yashodhra, gautama's wife. As opposed to the higher call, the subsequent lines are of our mundane lives where the man rules n the woman condemned to a secondary status. The call for nirvana are liberation is a lurking hope n witnessing the strife n struggle of life we lead with one step momentarily into spiritual quest n in no time engrossed into the alluring net, the laughing Buddha in the corner of the room laughs merrily! I didn't think of all these layers when I wrote but ur comment made me look into myself. All our endeavour is mere rattling of bones in an empty sack yet we feel we r on the centre stage, always! Hope I could make myself clear to u. There's nothing Gothic or eerie about the poem. In simple words it's representative of our lives with death lurking behind every blink.

I give up indira ji, it's of a high-level beyond the understanding of a common reader like me...but before properly surrendering i would like to say what came to my mind as its first impression...some gothic touch...E.A.Poe like mystery...A horror show... where the operatic tenors are the empty skeletons, full of mutinous screams, the state beyond rebirth, beyond death...the final exit from the stage of the world! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !