What is the author saying through his poem?

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What do you think the author is clarifying about life? And which two lines do you think are the most important and why? Also how would the poem be altered without them?

Title: Oneness

THERE'S SOMETHING DENSE, UNITED, SITTING IN THE
BACKGROUND,
REPEATING ITS NUMBER, ITS IDENTICAL SIGNAL,
HOW CLEAR IT IS THAT STONES HAVE HANDLED TIME,
IN THEIR FINE SUBSTANCE THERE'S THE SMELL OF AGE,
AND WATER THE SEA BRINGS, SALTY AND SLEEPY.
JUST ONE THING SURROUNDS ME, A SINGLE MOTION:
THE WIEGHT OF ROCKS, THE LIGHT OF HONEY,
FASTEN THEMSELVES TO THE SOUND OF THE WORD NIGHT:
AGING, FADING, BLURRING,
COME TOGETHER AROUND ME LIKE A WALL.
I TOIL DEAFLY, CIRCLING ABOVE MY SELF,
LIKE A RAVEN ABOVE DEATH, GRIEF'S RAVEN.
I'M THINKING, ISOLATED IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SEASONS,
DEAD CENTER, SURROUNDED BY SILENT GEOGRAPHY:
A PIECE OF WEATHER FALLS FROM THE SKY,
AN EXTREME EMPIRE OF CONFUSED UNITIES
CONVERGES, ENCIRCLING ME.
 
This is a poem about aging and relentless time.
The two most important lines are:
Aging,fading,blurring
Come togeather around me like a wall
Because these two lines tell what the poem's objective is.
There wouldn't be such a large clue as to what the poem means if the two lines above weren't in there.

This is my answer.
 
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