Loreto’s poem is about survivor’s guilt – a mental condition in which a person feels guilty for having survived when others have died. It summarises the longing of the protagonist to be in the company of a certain set of people who inspired him at some point but are now all dead. Here’s one facet of human nature.
Gopu doesn’t understand or trust rich people in cars, and somehow, within a short span of two days some of them have a large role to play in his life. Loreto M pens a story about Gopu’s initiation into rich people behaviour.