Hawaii

Cross Currents, Wntr, 2005 by Peter Ledermann

Ascended not, I can't believe
from the belly of the Earth, this rusted place
but carefully descended through the clouds
heaven steps each day retrace

What song have I strained to hear
singing out from the trusting land
this peaceful oasis floating now
ascended not from beneath the sand

whose children born with time not waiting
replaced by us who paved it over
who grapple with temptation hating
time held against the unsure lover

Secret trees who are well hidden
forgotten lovers planted here
speak sweetly to your children now
while they still have the ears to hear

Our hearts must pass through bamboo worth
and ginger air whose breath is quick
whose fruit fed back to the mouth of earth
our path obscured by jungle thick

Who flowers not because of rain
but because reminders must remind
so that all that's done is not in vain
kindness teaching kind with kind