Radhe Krsna Radhe - 1 Poem by Umasree Raghunath

'Radhe! Radhe! ' He muttered while asleep,
Not knowing He was missing Her even sub-consciously,
Krsna was in the palace of Dwarka,
Far away from His beloved Radha and Mathura,
The same Mathura, which was close to Radha's Brindaban,
Where He spent His childhood with his Gopis and Gopalas,
'Those were the happiest days of my life', He used to think often,
Now even though surrounded with opulence, He was not really home,
Once while He was playing His act of a Gopala,
He saw this beautiful child-woman in the form of Radha,
Although She was a few years older than Him,
His heart instantly flew to Her and became one with Hers forever,
She too responded to the love of Krsna, with sweet smiles of innocence,
Bringing Him fresh milk and butter from Her pastures every now and then,
Each day spent there was such a treat to the soul,
That Mathura and Brindaban became His entire world,
Now far away from those pristine land of the innocents,
He was entrapped in a land where power and diplomacy were the norm,
He longed to go there, back to where his childhood belonged,
To Radha and to all the Gopis and Gopalas,
But deep within He knew it wasn't possible,
Even for a God in disguise, He had to stay where He was,
For the sake of Dharma!

~ Even God has His Dharma (Duty) to fulfill. What to say about you and me?

Radhe Krsna Radhe