Meanings (ES + gloss)
despertar
To cause to become awake.
Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for…
despertarse
To stop sleeping; awake.
Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.