Just With The Scorpion Bite Nissim Cashed Fame Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Just with the scorpion-bite,
Nissim cashed popularity
And his poem,
Night of the Scorpion
Held the stage fro years
Of debates and discussions,
The mother after being bitten
Lying unconscious,
The tamers trying to tame
The poison
Through mantras,
The herbalists applying on
The herbal paste,
The sceptic father
Applying paraffin oil
With the match-stick.

The incessant rains
And the scorpion,
The villagers with the shadows
Cast over
And the lanterns into their hands
Or candles
On a goodwill visit
Are the other pictures.

People around
A mass of the villagerly men,
Half-read and half-educated,
Illiterate, foolish and backward,
They all discussing
In terms of philosophy,
One’s own karma and dharma and bhoga,
Resultant punishment.


But the scorpion as a villain
Absconding,
An escapist
Hiding around the knapsack
With the diabolic tail of its own,
The satanic figure.