Answer:
I am the third from a sparkle bright, I thrive throughout the day and night. Deep in the path of a cows white drink. I've had thousands of millions of years to think. But one of my creatures is killing me. And so the question I ask to thee, is
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
I have one eye. See near and far. I hold the moments you treasure and the things that make you weep.
Has feathers but can't fly. Rests on legs but can't walk.
You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?