Stone, steel,
Glass, cement
Fabricate
Monuments.

Brass, bronze
Cast and dent
Effigies
In monuments.

Iron forged,
Twisted, bent
Configures
Monuments.

Wood, clay,
Modulants,
Carve and mold
Monuments.

Form, space,
Replacement?
For lives
In monuments?

Sighs, gasps,
Cries, laments
Unheard,
In monuments.

Builders build
To repent?
Assuage guilt,
In monuments?

Homage
Better spent
In life, than
Monuments.