I Remember The Night Of The Krait Snake Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

I remember the night
When after the death of my father,
My mother awoke she all of a sudden,
Perhaps awoken by the dead father's memory
Or something else
As for the disturbed sleep
When she had been sleeping on the floor of the room
With my younger brother,
She awoke and flashed the torch light
To see a deadly black venomous snake,
Black from within and without,
Coal tar black and shining
Of the hilly regions
And the bushy areas of the plateau,
The krait snake
With the red darting tongue
And the beneath shining white.