Monolithic

         A 
       block 
      of white 
     stone grows 
     in a mist no 
    birds perch at 
    the top point of 
   this blank obelisk
  its single ray upward 
  knows no pair yet gem 
  hardly pretentious is
  what it appears to be 
  monolithic nothing no 
  more no less at worst
  at stone's base amass  
  a rock dove messenger
  pigeon dazed and dumb 
  fallen dagger edifice
  never before end this