I have started to say <br />"A quarter of a century" <br />Or "thirty years back" <br />About my own life. <br /> <br />It makes me breathless <br />It's like falling and recovering <br />In huge gesturing loops <br />Through an empty sky. <br /> <br />All that's left to happen <br />Is some deaths (my own included). <br />Their order, and their manner, <br />Remain to be learnt.<br /><br />Philip Larkin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-have-started-to-say/
