Prayer

Like clockwork the eternal girls
Ride out at the end of day,
To surf inside the pearls
Sparkling on the bay,

Their life suspended
Briefly on the sea’s long run,
As if summer never ended
In this ordinary sun,

Their skin too dazzling to age
Under the immortal glaze
Of a postcard’s wrinkled page,
In the laminated haze

Of the dated sky above.
Before we lose our prayers
To city life, my love,
To the roaring air of time,

To neurosis, to the grave,
Let’s put away this ancient slide
Before its old wave
Crumbles, and we’re caught inside.

December 8th, 2017, Kawela
December 12th, 2017, Kailua
March 27th, 2022, Kaiholu