I Felt a Funeral

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

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

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

As all the heavens were a bell
And being but an ear
And I, and silence, some strange race
Wrecked, solitary here

And then a plank in reason broke
And I dropped down and down
And hit a world, at every plunge
And finished knowing then