Life is a dream

Life is a dream!

We slip into the world and float

[With young teeth

And fresh gums]

[Upon its waves

and its foam]

until we no longer cleave to the earth.

And then, what is it? What is this life?

Life is a dream.

Life is a dream!

We love, our hearts pound,

and hardly is heart

joined with heart

than love and hearts

are empty foam

that disappears and is mourned.

What is life? I hear you ask.

Life is a dream.

Life is a dream!

We think, we doubt, we grow wise;

we arrange things

in our places and spaces,

in light and shine,

in vegetables and trees;

we are Euler, winning prizes;

then, at the graveside, the wise say:

Life is a dream.