Orca Swimming Pool (Based On An Actual Dream) Poem by Mona Lisa Aspiras

Picture an indoor swimming pool.
Easy enough.
The room's walls are blue,
Reflecting the pool's hues.
Now picture baby orcas.
Baby orcas?
Perhaps in the wild, in the vast ocean,
Frolicking with other wildlife,
- But the orcas, baby orcas, for that matter
- Are right here in the pool.
So tame, so cute.
And to finish the picture,
What do I see, but toddlers riding the orcas
Like toy rocking chairs.
Joy and laughter abound.
In both the children, who scream and shout,
And the happy orcas, quick to be tamed,
Gently playing with the toddlers.
The front edge of the pool,
Lined with a neat, straight row of the orcas
With the happy children boisterously screaming
As they ride the creatures.
It sure is a strange sight.
It could mean everything, yet nothing.
Meaning exactly what you see.
Or does it carry a deeper meaning -
The orcas and toddlers signifying a connection,
An innocent love between nature and man,
In a future of man-made surroundings,
Instead of the open wild.
Who knows?
But this is a dream -
A joyful and strange dream,
But a dream nonetheless.