Hiver - Terry Pratchett, Steeleye Span

Open your eyes again for a moment

To the detail of this world

Each tiny insect breathing

Each lipid, leaf, and furl

You see it for a second

Then fall back asleep

We see it for eternity

The detail of this landscape

Floating… Screaming… Awareness

All the time

How we envy you humans

When you gently close your minds

You fly into a thing you call boredom

A talent oh so rare

Anything you don’t want to see

You quietly ignore

A trillion tons of flaming force

A furnace, nuclear

You turn into a children’s song

«Twinkle, twinkle little star»

Floating… Screaming… Awareness

All the time

How we envy you humans

When you gently close your minds

You build your little fairy stories

As shells around your mind

To keep at bay infinity

And never ending time

You’re almost deaf and blind

Your lives are so short

Teach us how to end it

Teach us how death is called

Floating… Screaming… Awareness

Of everything, all the time

How we envy you humans

When you gently close your minds