I FELT A FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN

1 I felt a funeral in my brain,
2 And mourners, to and fro,
3 Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
4 That sense was breaking through.

5 And when they all were seated,
6 A service like a drum
7 Kept beating, beating, till I thought
8 My mind was going numb.

9 And then I heard them lift a box,
10 And creak across my soul
11 With those same boots of lead, again.
12 Then space began to toll

13 As all the heavens were a bell,
14 And Being but an ear,
15 And I and silence some strange race,
16 Wrecked, solitary, here.