So I watched the dolphins jumping in the bow wave.. And there was no other way to say at it, they were playing There is no reason to spend the energy needed to swim faster than our boat, or jump above the waves But they do it Creatures of the surf and current, but they must feel the same joy What else could inspire them so? We're not so different. Our brains have similar structures All of us are ghosts in our shells, or are our shells what gave rise to the ghosts? Are we even that much? Mechanisms driven by chemical, physical, and electrical reactions Life as an equation, playing out its course on a vast scale Cells multiply and divide according to fluid mechanics at the earliest stages in development They arrange themselves as dictated by protein sequences forming Bodies which are microcosms, ecosystems within ecosystems See the tortoise with the world atop its back We are wind dancers on the beach Wave swimmers of the sea Sun takers of the earth See the earth as a cell Alive and pulsing at the fringes and from within Time unfurls before us as the night sky And we are driven by the forces around us to exist to fall, break, feel, let go, run through the rain and... be Laughter, art, math, music, dance, and everything else are ways of making life more bearable Ways of playing with the world, arranging shapes and sounds and ideas into interesting new patterns Dancing in the bow wave But what are we really playing at, and why? I think we play at being infinite and infinity plays at being us