Doe Poem by Sankhajit Bhattacharjee

Doe's meat becomes tasty
when her dead body is kept buried for days.
This taste is in the tongues of tigers-
the saliva makes the tongues ever wet.
Still the tigers like dead doe's meat!
It's true that until and unless the prey is dead,
how can one take the meat?

A doe is attacked,
the tiger can snatch her meat from anywhere
as the claws of darkness attack a delightful day after sunset.
When she gets killed, the tiger starts to relish
as the century's darkest night appears with all frustrations and depressions.

I have watched this in National Geographic Channel-
Nirbhaya failed exactly to covey this picture to us
because a dead doe though satisfies others' tongues
is completely unable to move her own tongue
as she is dead.