Nothing is exact!

Inspired by the innocent question on a song called "Mathura nagarpati, kahey tum gokul jaao?".

What does it mean, she asked. And this is my answer:

What makes it oh, so hard

For you to understand

The feelings that the bard

Wrote in a lyrical hand.

What makes Krishna so right

And Radha oh, so pure?

What makes their trysts at night

Blameless to the core?

What makes Krishna devoted

To Radha AND his wife?

Yet deified and quoted

As the perfect form of life?

What makes Radha’s character

So strong and full of glory?

What makes us resurrect her

By repeating her love story?

What makes immortal romance

So elevating in our eyes?

What makes us want to chance

Everything for that prize?

What makes that song appealing

Is not its logic but in fact,

It’s a vague resonance of feeling

Because “Nothing is exact!”

What makes nothing exact, you see

Are questions with no replies.

My truth is my answer for me

And your truth, for you likewise.