Dolphins Poem by Silvina Ocampo

Dolphins don't play in the waves
as people think.
Dolphins fall asleep going down to the ocean floor.
What are they looking for? I don't know.
When they touch the end of the water
abruptly they awake
and rise again because the sea is very deep
and when they rise, what are they looking for?
I don't know.
And they see the sky and it makes them sleepy again
and they go back down asleep,
and they touch the ocean floor again
and awaken and rise back up.
Our dreams are like that.