Music and Dance

What have you earned

Swirling around, round and round

With your tunes circling the earth 

To moon and back,

A million views, a million  feelings

Twining them around your little finger

Hey Krishna

What have you earned?

Krishna What have you learned and taught.

Once on the left

Once on the right

You touch lightly with your

 shining peacock feathers

As the wind blows continuously

With no break as you

Play my heart and think

It is your constantly 

Playing game of 'go

Seek and find' oh Lord Krishna!

What do you earn teaching and preaching

 from birds to calves to  creatures remaining

Joining hands in a circle and playing

Your Raaga raagnis of yore

Linking to the farthest and wishing

You are here everyday

To play and sway and realize

I am nothing more than 

A mound of clay,

That you beat to malliate me under the feet of fate

That keep playing thaa dir dir

Thana dir dir thaa dir dir thaat..

Taking away the best of kindred

Gone are the greatest performers

From Ravi Shanker to Alla Rakha, 

Gone are beyond Tansen or Bismillah Khan to Zakir Hussein

As you Play Your Murali,

Swirling the wind through our wind pipes 

letting the breath chant Krishna 

with every breath of mine to thine..