Ripples

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I look at my reflection
Distorted in the currents of time.
I am a leaf floating ever forward
Does my presence even matter in this vast ocean?

For time is a river
And existence a sea
Where every ripple compounds
Where every action confounds
Where every thought comes unwound
Where reality is unbound
From the currents of time
You never will be free.

I will drag down those you love
Leaving you to drift alone
Someday I will take you too.
The whitecaps of waves
Are my claws
I stalk you from birth
I take you at death

No matter what
You'll never escape
The currents of time
And the ripples you leave on the surface
Of the universe.

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