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A thirst, a hunger culminating in a gloom

Pervaded every palace in dynastic China -

From Xian to Luoyang, from Nanking to Beijing,

young men deprived of their virility and

voluptuous beauties their love

spun and hid their sorrowful tales.

Throw all these desperados an all powerful emperor

and he became a natural object of contempt.

A persistent jealousy suppressed

Kept gnawing at the hearts of the young men

Who saw him as having an all-important

Faculty which had been taken away from them;

And from the concubines who saw him only

as an illusive object amidst the thousands of Alexis

vying for his attention, their hearts

Naturally going back to the sweethearts

They had left behind in homeland.

All these unsatiated desires, miseries and

discontents painted that unhealthy gloom looming

over a palace where insecurity, power struggles and

bids for favours were intense.

Almost all lived a self-serving double life.

The swords fell on those who failed to negotiate that secured path for the two conflicting selves.