My lover the sculptor in weary creation, Abstracting the postures of stones and their stations, Designing oft bodies unsuited in nature, Chimeric constructions in future danger That hearken toward an internal cessation. He toils in his labors of ceaseless duration Dismayed and unnoticed, without a relation Or patron whose willing to bargain his wager; His vision remaining opaque in persuasion. More monsters metallic that mime the purgation Of every ideal he aspired to, mutation In nightmares of decades that twisted the picture With nothing to focus on but his denatured, Lamented career of peregrination, His vision remaining opaque in persuasion.