“Buddha’s Tears” is a play written by V.M.Sethuraman as a spontaneous response to the genocide committed on Eelam Tamils by the then Jayawardhane government
in Srilanka.The anguish and agony of the innocent people infuriate the poet who angrily questions thus:
Why kill innocents?
Why rape lovely belles?
Why crush baby flesh?
Why all these holocaust?
Unable to find any suitable reply these questions tour around the world. Be it
These questions have to be asked in a suitable way to put an end to the mass-hysteria aroused by racial discrimination.
When the poet sympathetically cries in a desperate mood after seeing the plight of the helpless creatures, massacred mercilessly, the outpour has a universal appeal. The following lines not only depict the empathy of the poet but also bring to the reader’s mind, the cry of the mankind suffering everywhere.
What harm they did
To court this deadly end?
What harms maids did?
To have their limbs madly raped?
They are struck dumb
Speechless in pain
All solitaired
And ignobly orphaned.
The poet appeals to the people who remain as silent witnesses to these atrocities committed in the name of religion, race and ethnicity.
See their blood rolling in rills
See your cities entombed in dark
You have lost all.
Lost all my sympathy.
The poet longs for a noble soul to come forward to wipe their tears.
Cries and shrieks
Sieve your skies
Agony…agony…agony everywhere
Not a noble soul to wipe their tears!
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