Calculating each step.
Walking carefully as if you're treading on thin ice as you reach out for the thing.

What if the ice cracks?
In the water, you will flail your arms as you pray that help will arrive.

Yet the clock goes tick tock, tick tock.
Your limbs feel like lead, your heart starts beating slower, and you sink & sink & sink.

The thing stands at the opposite shore,
staring at you,
as it bids the last farewell.