tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35331458441613065822024-02-07T06:16:18.536-08:00Mai Ka Po Mai Ka 'O'ia'i'oFrom the Darkness comes the trutheJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.comBlogger1166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-66130608147613415062024-02-01T18:55:00.000-08:002024-02-01T18:55:18.073-08:00 For Palestine, and all the reasons a Cease Fire is not enough<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">In gaza <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There is no escaping the constant barrage of </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">bullet and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">bombs <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There is no water<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">No food or </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No fuel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No electricity for hospitals desperately trying to care for their wounded <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">no place to safely lay the bodies of their fallen <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">no guarantee any will survive long enough to pray over and bury their dead</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="haw"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">So </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Palestinian’s of all ages are posting last wishes and farewells on twitter, Instagram, queering the map<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">they say</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">they will not be pushed out of what little they have left<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">they sa</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">y: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> they wish to live long enough to fall in love<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to bear children </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">who grow old enough to bear and raise their own </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">they tell us their names and their dreams</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">, their secrets, and</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> regrets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I read as many as I can until the blue light of my phone begins to blur my vison <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hours later I am awoken to the sound of my daughter crying <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She has been shaken awake by the sound of military helicopters <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">hovering over her bedroom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The buzz of the blades makes the crayons on her desk shiver <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The meaning is clear <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So long as American money and war planes can reach <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the very edge of this globe <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">None of us are safe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I cover </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">her </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">a</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">faded </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">pink blanket<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">My mind flases</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> to the image of parents searching for their children <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">under blood soaked sheets <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I s</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">hake</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> like the crayons on the desk and press the image out of my mind<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Say a prayer of pale over her body</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="haw"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wisper in her ear, I am here my love <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You are not alone <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the very moments that the edges of empire and its violence are expanding <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I hold my daughter against my chest <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Across the globe, Netanyahu and his war mongering friends drop 6,000 </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">american </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">missiles in a territory ¼ the size of our island <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gaza clings to its body of Palestine, like an ʻōpihi against a rock <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">barraged by the shore break </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is a century’s long genocide escalating before our eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We are standing in the orchestra pit </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">a</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">mid</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;"> the</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> crescendo <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The percussion of violence has continued beyond its own breaking point <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But the </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">composers and their musicians</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> are still pulling at their strings: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">it is 3am</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;"> when </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">my daughter finally drifts back off to sleep<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">& </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am thinking about the visibility of violence in our digital world<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">I am facing the fact of our privilege <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">That I can make </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">her feel safe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In a world where securities are made manifest by the twisted destiny of empires <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The guilt of this “gift” we never asked for <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Carries me back to sleep beside her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">But The</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> rest will not last <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">The next morning we wake to the news that israel <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">Has</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> bombed </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">yet another</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> hospital <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While I was holding my sleeping daughter <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Other Parents </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">run for cover with their lifeless children in their arms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I read the updates while the American national anthem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">spill</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">s</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> into our living </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">room<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We are caught in the 8am routine of empire here in Wahiawā<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The daily salute to war and privilege and waste <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The bugle shakes the last of our birds free from our trees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Soon The sound of kuahine will be overwhelmed by a new rain, the M16s <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">On the nights when the sounds of war games shake our livingroom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I play The Black Pumas on vinyl to drown out the sound of drumming riffles <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each cracking munition takes my mind to Palestine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We live in the stolen training ground of empire’s muscle <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The tip of their imperial spear <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have known this for years <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Perhaps it is what made me a poet in the first place<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But seeing the images of the murdered caught under this weight in real time<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Has made me something altogether different<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So today I am reaching for new language <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While I am fighting every instinct to look away <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">from the children and their beloved burned, shot, and hollowed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Their homes and sanctuaries crumbling around them<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">I know </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At the very least they are deserving of our witness</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;"> and our indurance <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So I watch, I keep my eyes wide fucking open<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">But In these moments I have no</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> sign or solution, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">So Instead, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am standing in my small corner of our world with a mirror<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am singing all the freedom songs I know <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">First in a whisper, then in a scream <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am sharing the news with my two-year-old daughter during breakfast, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and bath time <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">Becasue </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I need her to know <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Why </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">the</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Palestinian boy crying </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">is </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to reporter about his cousin being shot down in the street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So I tell her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The sounds of war that she hears daily do not exists in a vacuum <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I tell her</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> that she is connected to him, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">this beautiful </span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">& grieving </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Palestinian boy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I send a prayer that his parents are holding him, alive, tonight too<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In my dreams I imagine them both safe <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Harvesting kalo and olives in our backyards <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Drinking clean water, directly from our streams <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lips sticky with laughter, citrus, and lihing mui <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When I dream, I see them as kin <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Not just by the sibling shelling they hear in the morning light <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My daughter must know<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that his home and the terror brought upon it and him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Could be hers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That in fact, it already is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She must face it <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She cannot look away <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;">It is ours <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is her</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;"> generations</span><span lang="haw" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">inheritance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-87792381430006303462023-09-04T22:52:00.006-07:002023-09-05T16:11:56.877-07:00little ancestor<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">I dream of the world <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">behind my daughter’s eyes <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">where every weed is a flower<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">every rock, a jewel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">every gust of wind, a relative <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">The unsteady wobble of her walk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">is my first true instruction in patience<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">her unquenchable curiosity, a promise <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">no day is without its own intimate adventure <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">and so, like any good student<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">while she absorbs every fine detail of life around her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">I take meticulous note of her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">I dream of her world<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">quiet, safe, and full of wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">and when I am lucky<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">I am granted invitation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">she takes my hand upon hers <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">a small universe folded in my palm <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">she leads me confidently to the next mystery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">each one deserving of our full and present awe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">she is my little ancestor <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">my mentor-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">pointing out every detail and creature worthy of my attention, and aloha <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">and so when I fall asleep tonight <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">I will conjure her brilliant universe behind my closed eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;">just to stay in her magic, a little while longer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-25409449255273352642023-09-03T22:28:00.000-07:002023-09-04T22:29:38.069-07:00The Death of Desire<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Some mornings, if I am not careful <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I feel the phantom itch of a heart that is longing<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Broken open and ready to be filled<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">But I know I am not that echoed cavern any longer<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">That ghost is so unifamilial to me that sometimes<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I forget what desire feels like<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And I think<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">That might be the death of the poet in me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">So I mourn her <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Quietly <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">When no one else is watching <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">My days are a carnival of small celebrations <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">of having the life I always dreamed of<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">With love <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Overflowing in every direction<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">With a purpose to give myself over to <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">With a partner and a family who accept me <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">with all my promise and shortcoming <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">But in the cracks between revelries,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I cry for the lonely lover I left behind<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And today I wake up unmoored by the quite part of a perfect poem <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And I realize<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I was unprepared for the sacred sacrifice I would have to make<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I did not know that being full would mean I would have to lose<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">The most familiar parts of myself<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And so to love you <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I left her in a shadow I have no intention of returning to </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">There is no regret <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Just the worry that soon everything I know about yearning <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">May be what I imagine or what I am able to remember <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">From a time before that is so far gone<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">She is so foreign<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And so I will mourn that loss, too<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">The version I was before there was you<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And love<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And every dream I could have imagined, came true<o:p></o:p></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-84833958076073550812021-12-01T14:43:00.001-08:002023-01-30T14:43:38.110-08:00 We knew we were liberated when we no longer feared for our daughters <p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Its been raining for days<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the kind where the sky turns grey <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and you wonder if it’ll ever turn back <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">its 53 degrees in Hawaiʻi (which is really fucking cold, btw)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and my 6-week-old daughter is sneezing more than usual<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">My partner looked it up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Some </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">babies sneeze when they are cold <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so i am holding them both a little closer than normal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">which is pretty damn close <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">at night <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">i close the windows<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I warp her in a lei of blankets <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">i say her name <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">out loud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">remind her that she is loved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">safe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">o wau no kou kiaʻi <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I am your protector <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">i say <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">over and over until she will be ready to say it back <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and her mother and i wait to hear her fall asleep <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and then we settle into each-other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">this is the future we dreamed of, together<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">from the frontlines of a movement protecting our mountain, our water, each other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and it is full of everything sweet, and beautiful, and tender <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">but we are no longer in a puʻuhonua<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so it is also overflowing with everything i fear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The US navy is poisoning the water in Hawaiʻi <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">tens of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel have already spilled into our aquifer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">250 million gallons remain in these WWII single wall degrading tanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and the Navy is refusing to drain and decommission them<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">even after admitting to the contamination <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">on twitter and Instagram I see photo ops with “the best” of congressional leaders handing out bottled water and hotel vouchers to military service families <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">like band aids on a bullet wound<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and for the first time in my life<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I feel completely helpless <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">There is an invisible plume of poison working its way through our underground water systems <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And the only people who know the exact extent of it <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Don</span><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">t give a fuck about us<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Our ʻāina and wai, and certainly think nothing of our children <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In fact, while preparing a suit against our state for demanding they drain the tanks the US NAVY insists: “It is not the fuel in the tanks, but the fuel in the water that’s making us sick”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Let me say that again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The US navy says: “its not the fuel in <b><u>their</u></b> tanks, but the fuel in <b><u>OUR </u></b>water that is making us sick”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And I give no fucks about their lyrical gymnastics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">There is no rewriting themselves out of fault<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I want to ask them <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">how will i feed my daughter if all we have is jet fuel falling from the faucet <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">instead I start googling DYI home rain catchments <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">while I</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> spin into a tornado of my own fear <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I can only think about the decades </span><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">our people have </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">been calling to demilitarize our island and ocean <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and how no one beyond our lāhui cared to listen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and now it’s the TV and twitter and Instagram all popping off <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and the water is rising <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and the </span><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">C</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ovid variants are multiplying <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and there are guns and cops and cages everywhere <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and my checking account is hemorrhaging money <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and my daughter is crying <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and it hasn’t stopped raining <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">its been days <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and it’s true, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">i used to long for these moments <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">a quality storm to quiet my house and mind<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">me in a corner with a pen and pad of paper<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">but today <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">i have a sneezing daughter in my arms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and i know that means she is cold<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so i am holding her a little closer than normal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">which is pretty damn close <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and i cant stop thinking about how little I can protect her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and now I know I am really a mother of a daughter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">because i am made only of worry <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">i am thinking about water <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the wai that is now fuel <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and the kai that is still rising <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">all around us<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and the mud that is creeping closer and closer to my doorway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">with each day that the deluge continues <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and i am waiting for someone to come and hold me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to tell me i am loved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to say that </span><i><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">at least </span></i><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">for today<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the water is safe <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I am waiting for someone </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to remind me that <b>we</b></span><b><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> too</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> are worth protecting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">like a mauna, </span><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">like </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">an island, </span><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">like our </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ocean</span><span lang="haw" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, expanding <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">i look into my daughter’s eyes again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">o wau no kou kiaʻi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I am your protector <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">she says <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">first to the ʻāina, then to the wai, and finally to me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and for a moment <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I can breathe again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Because at the very least <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Malia and I did one thing right<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We prepared one more wahine koa to take into battle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">But I cannot help but think<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">is this really as far as we can dream? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-88897611081294666172021-11-02T15:57:00.002-07:002022-12-02T14:59:23.971-08:00Call to Prayer <p> <span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">"Call to Prayer is a poem that attempts capture and portray the experience of standing in the malu of the sacred. Whether that malu is cast by monument, an altar, or a mountain, the poem depicts the kuleana of recognizing our pilina to that which is kapu</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif;">. The poem travels through the knowledges of faith, courage, devotion, fear, and aloha through the perspective of a Kanaka Maoli wahine who lives in the malu of our kupuna while continuing to endure the ongoing wake of settler colonialism, displacement, and alienation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">The poem intentionally stands in the malu of the Mihrab, </span>Shangri La's<span style="background-color: white;"> most sacred artifact. And in her magnificent shadow we come face to face with her certain theft and current violent misdirection. We cannot look away, not from her outstanding beauty, and certainly not from the generations of violence that has allowed us to be in her unconsenting company. The Mihrab powerfully calls us back to our own sacred</span><span lang="haw" style="background-color: white;"> places</span><span style="background-color: white;">, and in that moment we are invited into a mutual recognition, an unexpected intimacy between peoples, ʻāina, moʻolelo."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><u><span lang="haw"> </span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span lang="haw"> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span lang="haw"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmatJzGNih8" target="_blank">Call to Prayer </a><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">Jamaica Osorio, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">If I have <i>Faith</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">It is only because <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I know what it means <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">t</span>o stand at the foot of a mountain<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">m</span>y whole body a prayer <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">the whole island a monument <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">and to see<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">the piko<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">shining through the mist <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I still <span lang="haw">feel her before me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Even from hundreds of miles away<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Anytime I have the strength to look to the horizon <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">If I have <i>courage</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">It is only because <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I have watched our moʻolelo remake themselves in my generation<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I have seen an island born from pō<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">From a whisper in the quietest parts of ourselves, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Here <i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">A promise that we refuse to forget or forsake <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">That this place is ours<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Only so much as this place is us<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And I have held it in my hands,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">The birthing of our worlds<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Pō, turned light, turned pūko’<span lang="haw">a,</span> turned slime turned gods in a time of mere men<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I have watched the call of the intrepid summon Manaeakalani<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">every morning <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">in the hands of our kuaʻana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Maui, fishing us each <span lang="haw"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">One by one from the dark sea of this forgetting <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">If I have <i>devotion</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">it</span> is only because <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I have traveled into the poli of our akua<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I have crossed the piko<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">f</span>rom wākea to wākea <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">a</span>nd sailed upon the dark and shining road of kāne <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">d</span>eep into the realm of our ancestors <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">a</span>nd I have returned, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">w</span>ith the knowledge that to lay in the bosom of our kūpuna <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">is to commit yourself to the prayer of memory <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">to cast your eyes upon Kuehaelani <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">and to pull her shimmering body from the skin of the sea <s><o:p></o:p></s></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">If I have <i>anger</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">It is only because <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I know the stories of our loss<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Kiʻi burnt to ash <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Stones and koʻa removed<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Now the foundations of Billionaire estates <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I am aware <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">That nearly anywhere we walk <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">We are trampling upon the ʻiwi of our kūpuna<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I know the moʻolelo of the hundreds of thousands dead and dying<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I have seen the signs of the separating sicknesses <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Born again, like Haumea, in every<span lang="haw"> Hawaiian</span> generation <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I know the names of the thieves<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">The crooks in finely sewn suits <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Praying to their capital <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">As they pillage <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And loot our holy cities <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Leaving us with nothing <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">But a whisper of what we once believed<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">And yet I still have <i>aloha </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span lang="haw">But only because<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I am still here<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">With all my kūpuna beside me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And when I stand in your malu <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">You <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Tower over me, like a recollection <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Like a mountain <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">With so many stories I will never know<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">In languages I will never speak <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Thousands of miles away from your home<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And the <span lang="haw">ʻāina </span>and alchemy that made you<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">The hands that formed you<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Like an island<span lang="haw">, </span>consecrated <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">You are here <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Pointed even in the wrong direction<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">A desecration <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And still <span lang="haw">y</span>our kaumaha <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Is not foreign to me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">You <span lang="haw">f</span>eel more family <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Than stranger <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">And in your magnificent shadow <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">I hear our calls to prayer <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-69251952449813437702021-04-06T22:33:00.001-07:002021-04-08T22:34:12.221-07:00For Iremamber Sykap<p> <span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">I am preparing for a class on environmental racism when I see the headline</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">“a 16-year-old boy has been murdered by the Honolulu police department”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">That’s what I see, but we know that’s not what it reads. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The police and mainstream media will first call this child a man. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Call this murder a “police involved shooting”. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Will call this “incident” an inevitability<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">chief Ballard will say, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We have no further information as the officers involved are “consulting with their lawyers”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">“They have been put on a four-day administrative leave”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">That is the “normal policy” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Ballard will admit That there were no weapons found at the scene <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">While she hints that maybe one of the 14 or 16-year-old boys (she says men) tossed them<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And now the whole internet is engaged in a public debate about whether or not a child deserved to die<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And I am weeping, in awe of the magic of this misdirection <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We are having all the wrong conversations <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I am preparing for a class on environmental injustice<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Where we will discuss that the most accurate predictor to environmental harm is race<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The ordinary topics in this kind of conversation are about toxins, improper waste disposal, and water contamination <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">But I think about how our hunger, lack of shelter and healthcare – along with the obscene presence of police SERVAILENCE must be a part of this environmental equation<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">The math that leads only to our displacement and death <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">KITV lets out a hint <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">3 of the 6 boys were unsheltered (they say homeless)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Facebook comments will call these children guilty of a lack of worth ethic<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">“they should have been in school, better yet, had jobs” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">Even from our own lāhui, calling out bastardizations of hawaiian values without context <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">“hewa nō, make” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The worst of us will debate “choice” from our moral high ground<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">our bellies bloated with privilege<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I get caught in the black hole of Facebook comments <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">But I cant stop wondering how long it might have been since any of these boys have felt safe, full, protected<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I think <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How terrifying it must have been<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">These kids <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Younger than the age of my baby sister <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The full force of the honolulu police department in pursuit <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And firing <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">To me <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">This fear is so human<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And so I see their faces before a single picture has been released<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I know these ʻ<span lang="haw">ō</span>pio- they are not strangers to me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And so of course when the news drops I wait for the revelation of what we already know <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The faces of these boys will look like ours<br />and if we have resisted the forgetting <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Paid attention to the carving of our ocean into digestible, colonizable<span lang="haw">,</span> categories <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">They will be familial <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">Sons of our ocean <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">Our moananui<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">The only blue that with ever be worthy of our backing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">If we hold thse genealogies as sacred <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">As self evident <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">They will remind us <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Of us<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And so for just a moment <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">the 16-year-old <span lang="haw">chuukeese </span>boy<span lang="haw">, named iremamber <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Who was murdered by the Honolulu police will be our<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Child <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">brother <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">family <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">comrad <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Someone who’s life might matter far beyond the sum of mistakes made under the weight of a society that has already marked him as unworthy <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">His brother says, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">“the police hate micronesians for doing what we do... surviving” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">And I think, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">I know that feeling <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">Of being a target for elimanation <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">A nusence in the neoliberal promise of progress <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">living under the crushing weight of a failing state<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I said it before<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We are having all the wrong conversations<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We <span lang="haw">are</span><span lang="haw"> </span>examin<span lang="haw">ing </span>all the wrong “facts” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We are engaged in a debate that promises only to<span lang="haw"> s</span>trip <span lang="haw">us of </span>what <span lang="haw">little </span>is left of our collective humanity <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">While a 16 year old boy, born of our moana lays dead <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">So instead <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Maybe we could take a moment to pay attention <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">To mourn <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">To aceept our culpability <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw">And do anything other than cower, paralized<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Watch the way <span style="color: #0f1419;">the </span><span lang="haw" style="color: #0f1419;">police</span><span style="color: #0f1419;"> will position the murder of a boy as inevitable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419;">Watch the way our lives and the lives of ones we love have become disposable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419;">Watch the state pivot away from the root cause of crime</span><span lang="haw" style="color: #0f1419;">—use this as a justification for more force against us<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419;">Watch the ways the state will justify all this violence <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419;">While calling itself protection <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw" style="color: #0f1419;">We must know now<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw" style="color: #0f1419;">More than. Ever that we much Watch out for eachother – becasue we are our only defense<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw" style="color: #0f1419;">We are our only chance of survival <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw" style="color: #0f1419;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="haw" style="color: #0f1419;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-66000703670283809512020-12-09T23:54:00.000-08:002020-12-10T11:55:21.857-08:00For my Haumāna<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Remember the year we spent in pō?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How all the things we thought we learned came back up <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Again <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And again<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And again <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">As if there was something we missed?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">But couldn’t quite catch <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We spent days holding our breath turning our heads in circles until our faces were blue <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Remember those months we spent grieving<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Sitting in our darkness <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Forgetting the light<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Mourning a life <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">That seemed so far away <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We questioned if it even happened? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Remember how we (d)evolved<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How we became a string of ones and zeros <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Represented in high definition <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">But still<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Carved out to fit in binary <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">In someone else’s algorithm<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Living our lives in 75 minute increments <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Remember all the mele we lost <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How we forgot how to sing in harmony<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">or at least in unison<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How we sat there in our own void<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Silent<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Constantly facing our disconnection <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">When you reached out for pilina <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Do Remember the thumbnails that starred back at you?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How you wondered if you would ever know the tenor of their sighs<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Or the emails<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Remember the endless strings of emails <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">One after the other<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Each a reminder that <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">No one seems to have escaped this heaviness <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">This flood <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">This deluge <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How your haumāna <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Endured challenges you cannot even imagine<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Losses you dont know how to hold or comfort <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">All from behind the lonely blue glow of a computer monitor<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Hearts trembling <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Hands hovering over the unmute button<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Stuck <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Remember how your employer did give a fuck <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And insisted you evaluate them with a letter grade anyway <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How the failures of “leadership” soon began to not surprise<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">As the body count continued to rise <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Remember How so many times you wished<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">You could reach out to them <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Your students <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">With more than an arm of an email thread <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">With more than <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Ke aloha nō<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How many times you wondered if they felt your sincerity<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Or if it had been distorted through the microphone <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Caught and lost somewhere in the endless ether lodged between you<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I dont think I will ever forget <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The way this silence broke us like a flood summer rain <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Like a storm shaking us from the summit <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Just like we wont forget how we survived still<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Beside each other<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Even Thousands of miles away <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The lines of mana wahine we endured to create<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Armed held out taut across the oceans and continents <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Made something old <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Almost familiar <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Out of something so strange, distant <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And inhumane <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Most of all I wonder what will remain<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Will they know<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">My haumāna<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How I wished so much more for us<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">For them, for sure <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How most nights I stayed awake paralyzed by our collective anxiety <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How I wanted to show them this ʻāina that has loved and made me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">How I wanted to turn our hands together, down to her<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">So they might have the chance to be loved<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And made again too <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">But instead <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">What we have together is this pō<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">This dark and churning heat <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Still expanding, growing around us <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Into something I dont know how to hold<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">All we have is this quiet between us<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">And the knowing that something better <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">or simply something else is soon coming <o:p></o:p></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-78616852524094685452020-08-19T19:21:00.001-07:002020-10-19T19:21:39.379-07:00Things to say instead of I Love you: <p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">I had a life</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">unfolding before me</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I almost missed the whole thing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Suffering through the agony of loving</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">someone, who refused to love me back<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While refusing to let me go<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And this is how I learned:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Whatever is not mine</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Must be released<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-83142720315295699252020-08-18T19:20:00.001-07:002020-10-19T19:21:14.909-07:00Things to Say instead of I love you<p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">On the nights I dream of my daughter</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I wake up thinking of all the imes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have wondered:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Am I worthy of love?”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of all the women<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">who said: “Yes yes yes”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until it was the chorus<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I sang into my own healing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of the woman I might fail<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To raise into her own bloom</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If it weren’t for the fierce flowers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Who surround me<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-4547494375419271612020-07-13T10:03:00.004-07:002021-03-31T11:08:45.698-07:00Notes on Surviving the End of the world, Again<p><span style="font-size: 12px;">On the morning you wake to the end of the world</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">take your body back to the kai</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">to the place our kūpuna taught us life began</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">first pō, then coral, then slime</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">then a whole universe fitting into a space smaller than a grain of sand</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">then Ea rising through the ocean<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">pulling the tides that make mountains</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">valleys, and the rivers that cut through them</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Remember our ʻāina</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">for all the ways that she has fed us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">in the quiet darkness<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">before the blast</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">dive yourself back into the depth of creation<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">recalling all the times your world has ended before:</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Call out the names of all the violence that has come</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While calling itself protection<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All the ways we have been left<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To gather the shattered pieces</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two island cities in the corner of the pacific<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Flattened to caricature<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Names rendered meaningless,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Carved over and over again into the binding of our textbooks<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Just enough of their shape remains to call foul at our hubris</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But does nothing to slow the arrogant push of “progress”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In their toxic wake<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Came our “Imperial Lake”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our grand Moana Nui Cut wide open<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So on the morning you wake to the end of the world,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Chant all of the names of our dead and dying</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Refuse to forget:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;">Kahoʻolawe, Mākua, Pōhakuloa, Mokoliʻi</p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then look to the horizon</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Call upon the memory of hundreds tests</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Carried across our oceanic backs</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bikini and Ānewetak,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Kiritimati and Kalama,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Meralinga and Emu,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Moruroa and Fang ata ufa</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And all the unnamed caught choking downwind</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Epili Hauʻofa’s beautiful Sea of Islands vison perverted into a sea of toxic waste<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The enduring gift from our American, British and French “protectorates”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: line-through;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So on the morning you wake to the end of the world<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Remember,</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">we have lived this ending before<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Each bomb of history its own strike</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The coming of ships</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The spreading of death<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The taming of industry</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The carving of land, crosses, and cultures</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until all that was left<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Is what could be packaged and sold back at a premium</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All because the men with the plans called power<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Promised us “security” behind the barrel of a gun<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Cut a fortress out of a breadbasket and called it “productive”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Warships, cannons, and Gatling guns pointed at the palace</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then fixed into the ʻiwi of our mountains<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For “protection”</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">None of it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Will save us the violence that will continue to come</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bullets only beget more bullets</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bombs only beget bigger bombs</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And in the end, all we are left with is this waste,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Waiting.</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And still all this death<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Is not enough to force our forgetting</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our water, our moana, has a memory<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And we are made in her image<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Together</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Meaning<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">we are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">intimately connected</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and infinitely powerful<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">so who but ourselves can hold us accountable?</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When none of what has been built will save us</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From what cannot be called back</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Remember<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This moʻolelo:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The ea of change is heat</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The ea of life only rises from ʻāina and kai<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is no part of you that is meant to survive</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When the cost is this place</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Perched up as collateral damage</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">America’s shining shield sitting in the heart of the pacific<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A warning blast calling for what’s next</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Know this:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On the morning you wake to the end of the world</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">your vision will be 20-20</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">so use it</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">as the men with the “plans” called power call out from behind their screens to tell you to take cover</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">see beyond the violence of their contradiction</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">the enduring waste of their direction<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">call upon your own mana to make a change<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Choose to remember</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our ʻāina, this kai, these kuahiwi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And all they have witnessed</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Even more they have endured</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And still stand to protect us,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Follow their wisdom<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Come Armageddon or high water <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">hold them close</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Pull a pule from our naʻau<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Call out to your akua by name</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And commit to live your life in their image<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Not matter what the consequence<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And maybe</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Just maybe</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The world may not have to end again</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tomorrow<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-56719911138471108282020-05-08T09:26:00.001-07:002020-10-20T09:27:16.981-07:00For Mauna Kea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Its been 300 days since I first laid in your arms</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">First felt the chill of your kiss on my skin<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">You brought me to the thin line between life and death</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Between frostbite and heat exhaustion<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">You taught me balance</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Patience</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Compassion</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">And when you stretched your arms around us</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">You taught us safety</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">What it meant to create securities from our own bodies</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Voices<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">So for you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am every child who imagined someday you’d be free</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am every prayer laid at your feet</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">These days<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am hundreds of miles away<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">But you still visit me in my dreams</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">We share ceremony with Niolopua</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">And in that realm<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">You keep all my secrets</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">All my fears<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">All I am too afraid or ashamed to say out loud</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">For my fellow kiaʻi</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Its been 300 days since we marked the boundaries</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Lined our jurisdictions with the trembling tenor of our collective voice</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Since we began to feed each other</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">In food</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">In spirit</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">In care</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">For you</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am everything that cannot be broken</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am your first pinky promise</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am the incoming swell</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am every bit of love you taught me to lay at her feet</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am songs between stories, between tears</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">I am the water we fought to protect</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">That we shared<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">Together</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">In the bitter cold of night</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">When we worried</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;">No one else was coming<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p></div><br />eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-5498652654751253532020-02-05T18:20:00.000-08:002020-10-19T19:20:35.902-07:00When i think of Ea<p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">One.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I think of ea</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of music</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The breath breaking off the roof of my fathers mouth</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How its the softest broken i known<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of the makani</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The way it must carry its own memory<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of the way both<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My father</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The wind of his voice</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How my first practice in visioning came through singing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the malu of my father’s mountain range shoulders</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Under the breath of his waiʻōmaʻo winds</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How I would do anything to protect him</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I think of sacrifice</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think about led cut against its will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of the bodies, something like a pōhaku</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Forced into small shapes to paint death on my ʻāina</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On my people</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of the way Pōhakuloa sings her own song</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the dead of night</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Shakes us awake in her trembling<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Three.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I think of ʻeha</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I see his face again</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>dark blues<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of the ocena that must still connect us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But there are too many weapons between us to recognize our pilina</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When i think of ʻeha<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Clenched jaws and tears streaming like rivers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Across skin the same tint as my own</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of my voice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Reaching out to him</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Brother,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>stand with us”</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In another time</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We stood on the same side</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mauna a Wākea also casts her malu of protection on him</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That makes us family<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I believe, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">next time we will be facing the same direction</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Four. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I think of trust<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I remember my mothers fingertips</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Dancing across my back<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The way the shore break dances upon the sand</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of all the ways</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Love is a verb, a choice, a memory we hold on to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I think of trust</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think of my fists</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And everything iʻve lost to them</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All the sand, salt and promises that crept out from between long fingertips</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How I am not so much like my mother</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The grace of her open hands</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That can hold so much without suffocating<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All the breath around her</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How she never fails to make the wind dance</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Five.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I think of ea<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I wonder<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What will I offer back to my lāhui</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">With fists full of rocks</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All their breath, all squeezed out</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">With name im still learning to recall</p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-69402941237657154962020-02-02T18:19:00.001-08:002020-10-19T19:19:54.349-07:00For Nā Koʻokoʻo and ʻUlupō<p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">In an empty church house</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We remembered<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Together<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All the abundance that never forgot us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We sat as the night grew deeper around us</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until we could feel creation again</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And when the morning arrived</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">With her heat</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We gathered: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our courage<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our kupuna,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our hopes,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and inspirations</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We honored these moments by singing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mele into an ʻĀina that never forgot our ea</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And with our lima turned down<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And our moʻolelo churning between us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We grew:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Loʻi</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ʻike,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>kaiāulu,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AND each other<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until we overflowed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mud between our toes and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Laughter spilling over our lips</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And when we were weak,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">unsure of our words and footing</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We leaned into the unknown and each other<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Found aloha in the sturdy offering of a hand, a shoulder,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">a quiet, but reassuring sigh<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We brought the ʻulukoa back to the kai at oneawa<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Storming our bodies across kailua beach</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our brown skins simmering in the shore break</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The sky opened itself above us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nodding in her approval<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Welcoming us back home</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So when Malia asked us to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Share a time we fell deeper in love with our lāhui</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Each and everyone of us had too many examples that come to mind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We scrubbed words on a whiteboard that taunted us in christian scripture<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And so today as we we remove our trace<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">from the hale that held us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We carefully wash every corner clean<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">leaving only the verses of our aloha, inscribed</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Color expo ink carving our memory into another white background<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another kailua, waikīkī, University of Hawaiʻi,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another place that been transformed to insist we do not belong</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That tells us that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>we are too brash,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">our ʻike too native,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">our grief to deep, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">our joy too loud…</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> too strong, too kanaka to be right<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But today we practice the ancient resistance of staying</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We leave our Moʻolelo<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A simple and insistent reminder<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">that no one can ignore</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We are still here<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-78541455175840447702019-11-05T18:18:00.001-08:002020-10-19T23:21:09.801-07:00 I still look for you <p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br />I still look for you</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">In some of those<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Old familiar places <br />And this is how I know <br />You were more than smoke <br />In my lungs <br />You were something solid <br />That got itself stuck <br />In the cracks between who I was <br />And who I’m meant to be now </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">In case you’re wondering </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I still write about you </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">From time to time </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Each and every line </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It’s own little ending </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It’s own small door </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Closing the space </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">More secure between us </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-67893234634157517432019-08-31T19:17:00.001-07:002020-10-19T19:18:13.061-07:00 To live in two worlds<p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> To live in two worlds<br />As home<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Is to know</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is no leaving</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No running<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Away<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nothing is ever abandoned</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Except maybe your sanity<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In your constant transit</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is only returning<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is only coming home</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Only picking yourself back up</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Where you were left</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Off<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Only finding your last finish line</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And calling it morning</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: ".SF NS Mono"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Again</p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-14556042046645186722019-08-23T19:17:00.001-07:002020-10-19T19:17:34.895-07:00 On having to leave the the mauna for the first time: ⠀<p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am here to tell you <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That your very concept of aloha will shrink in the shadow casts by this mauna <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">so that when you are finally forced to leave her malu <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After 42 days under her protection</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It will bring every one of your kūpuna to the Surface of your skin <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All your lepo <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And all you Kai <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">will all come bubbling right through you <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until you are spilling <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Spilling <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Spilling over <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At her ankles <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And if you are lucky <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You have a wahine <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Who will turn her palms down to your ‘āina to hold you as you weep<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you are lucky <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You will have a mauna <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That you can watch from the rear view as <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You shrink away from her <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until you are so small <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That you have barely any voice left<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you are lucky <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Your ‘iwi will remember all the mele your father taught you<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So that you will still resonate <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From the inside out in <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you are lucky you will remember the grace<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of the last 42 uninterrupted sunrises across her skin<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You will know if you were ever truly a kia’i <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Is was because you had the gift of being shaped in her image <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you are lucky you’ll have just enough breath to say<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mahalo piha e ku’u aloha <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For all the ways you loved and reshaped me <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For all the ways learning to honor and stand for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>you, <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Saved me<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you are lucky <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You will get to say<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A Hui hou kāua <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Knowing the exact weight of that phrase <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-148155360621849102019-08-20T19:16:00.002-07:002020-10-19T19:17:13.135-07:00Simple Disruption <p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Such a simple disruption<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>When you say home<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I am not at all sure<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What that even means anymore<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Such a transformation<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When you realize<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Your whole orientation<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To aina<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To self<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Has changed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All in the </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Shadow of a mountain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You were so recently a stranger to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And now</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What aina have forgotten you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What oceans and ridgelines<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No longer hold the sacred song of your name</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In your absence<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What of you is lost forever<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In your abandonment<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When you left to protect<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What you couldn’t afford to lose<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Did you know<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That the wahi pana that raised you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Fed you</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Grew you in her waters<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Would have to pay the price of your forgetting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How that weight would be a debt you could never pay back<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What is this trauma<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of knowing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The precarity or your own personhood<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That at any moment you could become<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Estranged from your self<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That you might even already be so</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Will you ever recover<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Will you ever be ready<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To face a mirror you don’t even recognize<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anymore<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-88199995716978652832019-08-17T19:14:00.002-07:002020-10-19T19:15:49.753-07:00Keaukaha: For Uncle Ahlun <p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Keaukaha</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We sit across the table<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mele about Maunakea play over the radio<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and like always we begin by trading moʻolelo<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">then move on to trading Mahalo<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For standing, for holding, for being<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am full<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When he thanks me for our sacrifice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I tell uncle its such a beautiful time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">to be Hawaiian</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I watch a smile skim across his face<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But then the winds change</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and uncle’s somber makani get caught in the back of his sail</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Yes,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I remember a time when it was hard to be Hawaiian,”</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He says<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And the whole ocean builds behind his eyes</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And the stars he navigated across our largest oceans under come shimmering to the surface</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And before the water can sweep him under</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Her turns away, takes the ocean with him out the door<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I remember<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Again<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Again<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And again<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Why this fight is so important</p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-28386693048474779422019-08-15T19:11:00.000-07:002020-10-19T19:12:23.626-07:00In your Malu<p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Lay in me the valley</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Between your summits</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Let me be</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">The flow of ā connecting you</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">The pele that is always moving and growing</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">In your stillness</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Lay me down here</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Learning the quiet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of a breath that isn’t rushed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Isn’t coerced<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Isn’t afraid<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Lay me down here<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And allow me the privilege<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of being the ordinary at the feet of your magic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Lay me down here<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I will give my every voice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For the occasion that is your stoic stance<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Teach me the patience that comes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From being pulled full and at once<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From the depth of the sea<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because I am looking for answers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the ways I’m supposed to be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am looking for reasons<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Not to run<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From this person I’ve spent my whole life becoming<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because today I am a body full of questions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Slow moving magma making a mark I’m not so sure of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">you are gods reaching your ridge line into our every sky</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You are answers sketching yourself into the skyline<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You are every way the wind moves me entirely and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Exactly at the right time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So lay me down<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Under the cover of your prayer<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Watch the way I can’t help but shutter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Under your protection<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-57283558517854434152019-08-10T19:09:00.001-07:002020-10-19T19:10:49.380-07:00Chasing Kānehoalani<p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">We chase Kānehoalani across a promiscuous sky</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Wākea is soaked</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">in stars</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;">Papa is wet with anticipation</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So we follow the path carved by pele<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">between giants at out shoulders<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Loa and Kea<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Casting shadows of protection<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We put our prayers in our feet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Wait for the pōhaku to breathe us in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And trace the pāhoehoe slowly until we arrive<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He alo a he alo</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the paia that remain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">the paia that remind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">us how to stand<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The paia left<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After each and every of our ahu<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Are targeted and defiled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We hold out our skin to the lepo<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Show her where it hurts<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Where it’ll turn to scar<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Where we’ll remember<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What is this security<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That has us clinging to our dirt and dying</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Praying for mercy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Chanting for forgiveness<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the piko of Hawaii<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The piko of the Pakipika</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The piko of our ea<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We are Standing at the foot of pele’s flow<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Surrounded by the wahine who call the wind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And when we set the ceremony<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The elements always answer<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Saying<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘Ae. ‘Ae. ‘Ae.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We are still here<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Kūpuna insist<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Keep calling us by name”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I do. And I do. And we do.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-24260708176934359412019-08-08T19:09:00.001-07:002020-10-19T19:09:44.289-07:00 Malia :: ka Wahine kia’i ‘āina⠀<p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Malo says <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Land without kanaka is moku<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Solid surface severing the sea <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I didn’t quite understand <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How Kānaka can make ‘āina of pōhaku <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until I found all that I needed to feed me <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the sincere stare of your eyes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Or the soft creases of your palms <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As we pulled the dawn out of the freezing night <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nawahi says <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Aloha ‘āina <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Is a magnetic force drawing kanaka to ‘āina <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To self governance <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To eachother <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I can’t help but recall <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The way we made steel guards out of our bodies for our love <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How we made aloha <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Out of this commitment <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How the mauna became a magnet for us all <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And so much more still <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">in her Majesty <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then there is me <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two centuries past the genius of these <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Kanaka intellectuals turned prophets <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I am wondering <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What mo’olelo will I write to honor the kia’i in your bones <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What collection of metaphors <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Will celebrate <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Your mo’olelo</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The way <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You teach us all how to feed and be fed <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What mele will I sing to hanohano your grace <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Pukui tells me that to honor is to mālama<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I think of all the alters of care I could build at your feet<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All the pōhaku I would gather <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">from the corners of our pae ‘āina <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and stack in your name <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And there are so many songs I could sing <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So many melodies that come to heart <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Too many to settle on one <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All I know is <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘O oe no ka’u I upu ai ...<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hilo pa’a I ke aloha ... <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">o kou aloha ka I Hiki mai <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The phrases keep falling to the tip of my tongue <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And I am struck quiet by our abundance <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then when I least expect it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">you come into perfect focus<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Every mele I’ve spent my life etching into the somber chambers of my voice <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now has a new purpose <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And for the first time in months<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I take a full breath <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And in my exhale I realize<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The only thing I need to say <span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Is your name<span class="s1" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">⠀</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Apple Braille"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">⠀</p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-67493150843075587482019-08-07T19:08:00.000-07:002020-10-19T19:09:08.083-07:00When you run out of words<p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> What happens when you run out of words<br />And the lāhui is waiting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Waiting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Waiting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For what you have to say<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Wanting the next metaphor to pull them back here from the corners of our pae ‘āina</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How many times will you choke on your own saliva<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Trying to conjure<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The right combination of syllables<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To articulate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A moment<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Beyond your own comprehension<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To call your people in close<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Home</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Say this:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Every morning<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The mauna reminds me of my human</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Reminds me of all the ways my every small breath is a revolution<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Reminds me how to stand like a pillar holding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Holding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Holding something sacred<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Reminds me of what I must be willing to cast from my shoulders<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For the ones I love and haven’t met yet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then maybe the words will come back<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Maybe they’ll write themselves into your love’s spine like ridge lines <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Maybe you’ll find a poem behind her breath<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You can pass off in your own voice</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Maybe no one will notice today all the ways you dress your mediocrity in song</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Maybe if they do, you’ll still be forgiven <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And if that is so</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the break of silence between stanzas<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Conjure yourself the ea you need to sing the sacred songs of healing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Forgive yourself for the ways<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Your overflow<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Means<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Something is always spilling out from you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Even when you are not ready<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Forgive the purge<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The flood<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The way loving<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The way you seem to do<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Sometimes feels like a loss<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Let yourself lean in</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then Let her hold you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And Watch the way she feeds you language<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One seed at a time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Watch how her eyes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Say the prayers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That bring back all your water<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And words</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From wherever they’ve abandoned you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So that the next time the lāhui asks for a poem<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You can say:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is a woman who’s love dances in the valleys between two great mountains<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and once<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I watched her pull the sun from the horizon with just her voice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I caught the summit of our mauna in deepest part of her breath<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So that When she held me close<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I breathed every bit of that mauna in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">She were both pillars holding up the sky<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In our sacredness<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-67783386969059459472019-08-05T19:07:00.000-07:002020-10-19T19:07:51.889-07:00 10 ways to stay <p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘Ekahi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This morning<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I planted a koa tree in my throat<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I waited for the roots to take hold</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When you woke<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I kissed the remaining seeds into your collarbone<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Knowing something important will grow<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Knowing that in this and every fight</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We are not warriors<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We are a grove of kumu lā’au<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘Elua<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I came<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I gathered all my sacred songs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I carried them on my tongue<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I laid in the circles that bring the ea<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I listened when you called the wind <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And answered<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘Ae. ‘Ae. ‘Ae<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘Ekolu<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Every day<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I cast a Malu of protection for you to stand in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I lay the Kapu words of protection over your kino<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I make the sacred space for your safety<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then in my next breath<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I list to strangers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All the violences that might come our way<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I do the song and dance of non violent direct action<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I insist that we will not react<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I tell them we are here to take it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And yet it takes every bit of me to imagine<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Holding myself to that standard<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Come the day you are threatened<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘Ehā</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">26 days etched onto my spine<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Too many more to count at my feet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Only the promise<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That I shall not be moved<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From this place<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From this knowing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">26 ways I’ve learned what it means to stay<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">‘Elima</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">These are the mo’olelo I have that have the ea to hold you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">These are the reasons and ways I know how to stand<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">These are the lessons I learn when I love like a mauna<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I love you, my mauna<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I remember<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That I am a mauna too<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-36675141495972434522019-08-02T19:06:00.000-07:002020-10-19T19:07:13.813-07:00 When the storm is coming <p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> When the storm is coming<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>you learn quickly what you can and cannot live without</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">the secret is</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">even though youʻve been living out of a tent <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">for the last three weeks</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">most things you have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">are completely unnecessary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">the truth is</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">all you need is shelter, warmth<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and the right company<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">when the storm is coming<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">you pack<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">pack<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">pack and pack<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">until every bit of the proof of you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">is stored away</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">you say a pule to hold you</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and your ʻukana dry and safe</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">when the storm is coming</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">you will learn what parts of you are ready to be tested</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and what parts require a bit more practice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">you will watch the others around you as they learn the same lessons</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">when the storm is coming<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">you will remember</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">all the times Mauna a Wākea protected you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">from hurricane winds and rains</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">all the times she sent lester, hector and lane all on their own way</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You will remember her protection</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The malu she casts around you</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and because of her you will be moved to stay<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">to hold her close<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">even as she winds come to wipe this slate clean</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">when the storm is coming you noho paʻa</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">insist t</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">hat this time</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">it is our turn to protect her</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">in the face of whatever threat might come this way<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533145844161306582.post-53127314816013727002019-07-31T19:06:00.001-07:002020-10-19T19:06:35.905-07:00 Five ways to offer ea on the mauna <p><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Every morning I run a mile in either direction from my pu’uhonua<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What starts as a familiar exercise in physical discipline<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Quickly becomes an experiment in my own mental fortitude<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">How far can I stay from this piko of mine<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Before I am forced to turn around to catch my breath<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And whatever else I have inadvertently left behind</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My skin hasn’t been kissed by the sea in nearly three weeks<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Where there were once gills<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All I have are scabs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now I catch as much pa’akai on my tongue as I can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because I know<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This may not be what I was once accustomed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By it is more my home<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Than any other I have ever known<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Three.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Wahine standing,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">fighting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and sleeping by my side</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Three distinct rhythms of breath</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Three perfectly original laughs <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Three examples of what it means to root yourself deep in this struggle<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To be prepared for the years ahead<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Three kūkulu showing me how to stand<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Four.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Times I’ve had to divert my eyes from hers</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Just this morning<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To try to keep myself contained<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Five. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tonight I will look up to ho’ohōkūkalani<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And realize that there is nothing caught within my site that wasn’t shared by my kūpuna<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tonight I will find myself caught in the ‘upena of the Milky Way</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I will give her my breath<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And in exchange<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">She will give me back thousands of years worth of questions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tonight I will write poems in the language of my kūpuna<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the language of this mauna<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the language I should have spoken to her all along<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>eJAMACAtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08601000203874229737noreply@blogger.com0