Death

"And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision.
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace fear when we are caught without
People or drink."

--From "Aubade" by Philip Larkin, 1977.
Larkin died in 1985.