What's the reason?

(3298) Vrajer kanu bajiye venu

Braja's Kanu,^[1] playing a bamboo flute,
Today why did You appear?
Mind's Jamuna dances no longer
To a melody and beat, thronged by things worldly.

At Vrndavan there is no forest;
High-rise buildings do the mind encircle.
No more do I find that sweetness
Under the kadam tree,
Like You had seen.

Today the Jamuna is shriveled;
There is not the banyan's shelter
There is not tamal's dark magic.
In lap of clouds ebony,
Did the moon-like Krsna hide,
Out of sight, behind a time-screen?

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