I stand watching, from your birth

A shadow, while you walk this earth

A whisper that cannot be heard

A waking dream, obscure and blurred.

I have no memory, judge no crime

I know no age, am of no time

I have no ears to hear your pleas

Nor eyes, to see you on your knees

Past your hope and desperate prayer,

You will find me standing there

I'm here watching while you flee,

Knowing you run straight to me.

My embrace is never felt,

Until, revealed, the hand once dealt

I make no bargain, cannot be bought

All endeavour counts for nought

In the blackness, here I wait

Your fearless and unyielding fate.