Eroding Shell

Eroding human shell

Last line of defense

Against a world of cruelty

When the barriers are down

Before we die, we hide

Mortal life is a lonesome tunnel

A singular line through space

When the barriers are down, they'll come

Obsolete at the end of a chain

Exhausted from data retrieval

We give up and lay under the gate

Because when the barriers are down

They will come