Miracle Cure

He was unconventional Swam against the tides A village man of medicine Rock-firm in his methods And he did isolate a plant extract That restored the pancreas Effected miracle cure Of diabetes one and two once for all Success embraced him because He didn’t buy the age-old edict That sugar disease once in Can never be reversed As he rejoiced over his discovery Pharmaceutical chiefs drowned in worry In the world’s mega-cities Which headquartered the industry They spent sleepless nights The new drug would make obsolete Their formulation armouries Of costly hypoglycaemics Perennial springs of wealth Scattered all over the world That sucked into the pockets Of rich and poor regardless And that would mean losses in tons Running into billions, nay trillions All due to a new panacea Hit upon by a hardened Hippocrates Telephones rang at several spots All over the globe late into night When at last the morning dawned The medic failed to rise and yawn He was found sitting in his lab His head bent over the desk There was a public uproar And a final autopsy report A cardiac arrest it was Following a massive attack The doc who signed the report Smiled his way to the bank He too was truly baffled How such a fine lethal needle Found its way right to the heart Leaving no external marks