Both of us, only casual stones

I’m a lump of lonely stone,

U also a shred of alike form

I lay beneath temple steps,

u stay in sanctum sanctorum

People put foot on me,

to climb up temple steps

U adulated entire day,

offered flower tributes

With utmost devotion,

utter inner wishes

bow down to fulfil them,

pray in folded hands,

Make confessions,

unlatch their hearts

speak up their concern,

Murmur d’ pathos of life,

ask you for a solution

No one cares for my emotion,

no pat even with a gentle palm

If U a stone of some calibre,

me too a stone of same order

hard to make out a reason,

why does it so happen ?

After ample interaction,

“hear me”, told d' God stone,

"While carving a sculpture,

petty pain even,

 u denied to endure

Each hit u screamed, did object

couldn’t be given a divine shape

 Decision made to leave U aside,

deserted, thrown to d' way side

Casually next stone got picked,

with it they chose to proceed

Started cutting, shaping, carving,

all supreme tricks of engraving

It was me,

I generated enough patience,

bore entire process in silence

diligence fetched me a shape,

with rituals, I got placed

In a temple, on a golden altar,

washed with holy water

announcements made,
 ceremonies held

U in your primal position,

continue as an usual stone

Mud huts perish,
 in heavy down pours,

brick houses stand for years

Matured in heat of furnace,

acquire vigour in abundance
Moulded in to a tough brand,

critical plights to withstand

As an idol u installed, 
declared a deity,

with religious rituals and rites

Milk, honey yogurt baths given
 Circumambulations performed,

a transition to a pious stone,

 now a spiritual destination
People pray,

 to cross over worldly cage,

out of illusion,

to planet of knowledge

Your temple a sacred site,

to commemorate marriage,

birth of a child

I’m uncared for, unknown

though equally a stone,

Entirely ignored,
  in deep penance,
lying idle in temple entrance

Fail to follow,

Why such discrimination!,

 both of us,
only casual stones