The shine like a mirage distant <br />In actuality is nothing but dust of centuries <br />The pilgrim in belief that the stone has come from heaven <br />Up from the skies and from nowhere <br />No earthly birth is attached to it <br />In memory’s distant corner <br />Its first discovery and knowledge <br />Of being possessed with objects <br />Carved or beauties curved into shapes <br />In similarity to the mind's great fantasies <br />In worship and in the sculptor’s masonry <br />In touch it creates riot in the imagination <br />Akin to the circling pilgrims <br />Or bowing down touching the mother earth <br />In child’s play and the clay in different forms <br />In an attempt to harden it into a stone <br />Animals six legged or statues with multiple hands <br />Candle lit on oil and placed near the dead <br />The bread’s sweat aroma on its flat above the fire <br />Or the pot left as symbol from the civilization lost <br />The dust and the depth of lines it talks of symbols <br />To the necklace and the arrows or cannon balls to the angry <br />Stones in architecture or the goddess of beauty <br />A wish to the lover or hope of the beloved <br /> <br />A small piece in my pocket softened by many touches <br />The memories of the beloved written on its face <br />No match has it got for the poor man’s love it carries <br />The phallus in different shapes or creations ultimate source <br />Love from the primal exit in shapes taking divinity <br />No diamond no ruby no precious metal <br />Stone in the dust and dust upon the dust <br />Mankind’s imagination have thou inspired <br />The mammoths of pharaohs the Mayas and the Orient <br />The wall wailing or the God’s dwelling house <br />Erections of the devil despised by the stone <br />Stone unto stone and the stone is so worshiped <br />Mankind’s love have thou animated <br />The secrete is that thou art so abundant <br />The multitudes and the generations <br />In veneration deep <br />Stone <br />Thou art the poor man’s love<br /><br />Sadiqullah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/romancing-stone/
