What is sentience?

I throw an old log or bottle in the fire

Covered with microbes and creatures which only exist

On old bottles or logs

And they suffer the trauma of death in the inferno.

How much difference to a huge, multidimensional being

Will our deaths be when Earth is cleaned

Away from the corner of its

Multidimensional room?

A speck of offensive dust beneath its

Tidying broom.