Setting time away

For toil--idle days

Priceless, though, my time

Senseless, still, I pay

Break within the cloud

Crimson, smould'ring shroud

Tear within my soul

Ashen, faceless crowd

Dedicated now

I am, here, to the beast

An angry, rotting sow

From languishes long pieced

Not one soul

Survived that wicked call

Or resisted Siren's pull

To grasp the wretched pall

I set about the course

And marked myself a path

Through Sisyphus' remorse

Through Titan's ancient wrath

I do not cast among thee

The furies set apon me

Though by my shell, it would compel

My wrath, if I more faulty

Sullen, anguished boar

Gnarling, languished whore!

If I allow, that vile sow

Would live to see me scored

Irreverent and impudent

That beast would see me scorned

Setting time away

For mending--better days

Priceless, is my time

Unwilling, I, to pay

Break within the cloud

Amber-golden shroud

Silent, is my soul--at last

New pathways I have found

So my heart is lifted

From off that burial ground