A riddle, can you answer this?

Please answer my Riddle

A ghostly form cloaked in shadow, devours husband, house and widow
Dark is its disposition, cold is its grip, through life’s mist it will slip
Its always there but never seen, the traitor in your children’s dream
None can escape from its patient hands, still and unforgiving, as stone it stands

What is it?
 
At first I thought it was darkness but the last line sounds like the answer is death.
 
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