Horse Pantoum

"That is not dead which can eternal lie
Yet with strange aeons even death may die."
        - H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Nameless City'

"Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by."
        W. B. Yeats, 'Under Ben Bulben'

If I am dead, then you must be
almost as nearly dead as I;
and I in turn, with dread, can't flee
from the certain grasp of the sky.

Almost as nearly dead as I,
we, both doomed to mortality
from the certain grasp of the sky,
for death shows no form of pity.

We, both doomed to mortality,
the horseman casting his cold eye,
for death shows no form of pity
in strange aeons, where one must die.

The horseman casting his cold eye,
and I in turn, with dread, can't flee;
in strange aeons, where one must die,
if I am dead, then you must be.