Hawai'i Pride 'ole
1 {Hawaii}
I can't stand it here,
the
eternal summer is attuned to
entities not accustomed to change;
short-timers and
newcomers call this
heaven
though the haoles
2 disagree
I've begun to hate
Pele3 and her volcano that put us all here in the
middle
of
an ocean of maybe. Still
waters are the
draw, though the surfers don't believe in anything
but
sex wax4 and how to avoid the
sharks;
it's not my place to
disagree.
To this day, I won't drive on
U.S. 35 ,
not because of the spirits but because of the
bullets,
and I want to say to those that
discovered this land before
Captain Cook6
yes, you may have kept me off your
lands, but you've also kept me
out of your
life.
if you can live with your
arrogant loneliness, so be it, but don't you
dare
ask for my
support
when you claim
I can't understand because of the
color
of your
skin.
1 'ole (pronunciation: oh-lay) Hawaiian term for nothingness.
2 Haole (pronunciation: how-lee) Hawaiian racial epithet for Caucasians.
3 Pele (pronunciation: pay-lay)Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes, and a Brazilian Soccer god.
4 Sex wax is used on surfboards to help increase traction.
5 Road built over Hawaiian sacred ground.
6 Cook was one of the first whites to arrive on Hawaii.