'OPAEKA'A FALLS

'Opaeka'a Falls
(Photo courtesy of Silas Kaumakahia Aqui)

Magnificent falls

your double cascade bathing basalt

and watering this island Eden.

Where are the rolling shrimp--

your namesake--

that once were so rampant

the natives could see them flowing

in your 151-foot liquid tresses?

Are you the tears of God

Who paused for a moment

during Creation

to sadly reflect

the point of it all?

The blessing 

is that you never stop

blessing.

Flow on, magnificent falls,

flow on,

forever giving life

to this verdant emerald isle.