-Anubhav Mukherjee
When the balance of good and evil comes to an end
When rulers become despots, and truth is inversely bent,
When animals are slaughtered, and the helpless innocent suffers,
As destiny of the macrocosm hangs in plight
Then is when He is born to bring about light.
The night was dark, overcasting the sky, and they all knew the reason why
The father was in manacles and the mother bound with chain
The evil King lay on his golden bed, sleepless and filled with pain
Unanticipatedly Devaki’s sleepy eyes
could see an aurora fill the dungeon Main!
‘O, oppressed mother, worry not for your troubles are about to end’ echoed a celestial voice
As the intonation faded, cried Vasudeva ‘look who here lies,
as luminous as the Sun, against the dark soot of the floor below the skies ’
Around them, a miracle as guards fell to slumber,
When the voice spoke ‘O helpless father,
do your duty, protect the protector of the world’.
Vasudeva picked up the little bundle, persevering to carry it to safety
He stepped out in the hail and the storm, clutching the Infant in his arm to refuge
The earth shook and out emerged Vasuki,
the primordial protector disciple of the Lord
His coils parted the flood as his head sheltered all from the lashing of the deluge
Under the hood of the Divine serpent, on went Vasudeva to Dwarka,
to the doors of the good man Nanda.
he graced the Lord in his shelter, placed him with his own Balarama,
And his loving wife Yashoda
Here was where he was to grow, loved and adored by all those who know!
Epitomises this the tale of His birth, the benefactor of the Earth
Of Him, who was the charioteer in the war against adharma
He who slew demons, vanquished evil, liberated the men
The Final Avatar of the Preserver of Cosmos, Lord Shri Krishna.