[ WP ] The sky is falling , and you are an old man

`` Near Death'' 
 
 
 The sky is falling, 
 And I am an old man. 
 I have a son beneath the sky, 
 A daughter between the earth and the tops of trees. 
 I have a wife above the water, 
 And they all have eyes- 
 But only I know the sky is falling. 
 
 
 
 The sky is falling, 
 And brings the sun nearer to me. 
 I pray the starlight smoothes my wrinkles 
 And the heat boils my blood into the fast and violent river it was in my greening. 
 In my youth, I was confined between the earth and the tops of trees- 
 Now I have the keen rheumy eyes of age. 
 Does no other man know the sky is falling? 
 
 
 
 The sky is falling, 
 And I am a man above the tops of trees. 
 No one told me the end would be a pool of lapis azul- 
 No blackness, but blue like a keen sky-forged sword 
 Burrowing into my babe-soft skull. 
 I am an old, old man, 
 And the sky is falling.
