Hibiscus Cry

A poem by Ursula Kay Vos

 

　

Hibiscus Cry

　

　

Greedy Men

Steal a leaf

Hoarding its scent

 

To recapture a place

Far away

The islands lie

 

Uncorrupted

By brilliant minds

 

The spirit of shaka

Still survives

In the surf

In the spray

 

On cool summer nights

Lovers lay

Begging the islands breeze

Create a memory

Today?

 

A soldier

A sailor

Even a haloe

Or two

Never wanting to leave

 

These islands

Like nothing

You have ever seen

So true

 

Why do you bring

The native beauty away

Her paradise of flowers

Is where she should stay

 

Plucking a fish

From its salty home

Means certain death

It needs to roam

 

So why do you steal

The Hawaiian goddess away

Clipping her wings

Taken the oceans spray

 

The salts absence from the air

Leaves her breath stale and dead

No where to swim

No where to roam

 

Looking forlornly upon the sky

She gazes long

Wondering why

 

The air has lost its sweetness

The days lost their spring

Her step now sullen

As is her every breath

 

Her mind wanders back

To the day she saw her love

The soft seas sand

On the paradises land

Where her heart

Rests now

 

Waiting for her return

To her love.

　

Ursula Kay Vos

12/26/2011