Burned by the passing hours Ectatic we observe our surroundings while time passes in the hourglass Unstoppable time brings us away Takes apart and reunites us at his own will Not caring of our desires Insensible to our efforts Rustling grains follow one another Passing through the only passage Able of taking them from now to then Then crowd like fishes in a cage Unstoppable time brings us away Takes apart and reunites us at his own will Not caring of our desires Insensible to our efforts Painfully we climb the dune And through the glass we observe The moving of real life Unable of being more than watchers Of a life that lives us Instead of being lived Unable of giving us direction We follow the stream Sliding softly Unable to react Or not caring at all Satisfied of being unsatisfied We wait in motionless soul The fall... of the last grain