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I feel you in the distance, waiting for weakness.

Stalking out horizons for hundred thousand years

Plodding every forward, unstoppable in motion

Impatience waiting for the chance, signaled by our fears

I’ve seen you in my tortured dreams in silence every creeping.

Extinction turns deaf ears to screams to catch us while we are sleeping.

You’ve lived in our subconscious for as long as we can know.

Hear the rattle of the bones from hand collecting the toll.

In vigilance perpetual, in purpose denied

Unwavering persistence like the steady march of time.

Matching every footstep while we laugh at our progress

Our arrogance denies you we are living in our lies.

This fee is not negotiable and nothing we have accomplished can keep us from the final lonely ride.

Some will boldly step on deck and some find they are not so eager

To see the fate awaits us when we reach the other side.

At odds with all of nature creation an annoyance

You have lived in our subconscious for as long as we can know

Waiting still in patience till we reach our river station

I hear the rattle of the bones from the hand collecting the toll.