Perception is Everything........The Rose:

A rose once grew where all could see,
sheltered beside a garden wall,
And, as the days went swiftly by,
it spread it's branches straight and tall...

One day a beam of light shown through,
a crevice that had opened wide,
The rose bent slowly towards it's warmth,
then passed beyond to the other side.

Now, you who deeply feel it's loss,
be comforted, the rose blooms there,
it's beauty even greater now,
nurtured by the Divines own loving care.........

Never let life's trials steal your hope or touch your  spirit....Kaavi

The Fire that is our essence, comes from the stars, and to the stars , the blossoms of heaven, summerland our essence will return. The Earth is our Mother, After Our earth walk our bodies will return to the Mother Earth. Our spirits are Ha, the wind of the breath of life, from the alo, the bossom of the Goddess, we are then created in aloha. Are words are our breath and therefore our Words are sacred. ......Kaavi, 1999

Where have all the heroes gone?
those whom we esteem in song
Were they merely myths of lore
made to give us something more?

Silently, each day I seek,
Another Hero of the meek,
One to show us strength and love,
To help us reach the stars above.

To know our dreams are not in vain,
And then one day my hero came.
Not on a horse in shinning white,
Not in the myst of deep moonlight.

My hero came in an unlikely way,
And I meet my hero's everyday,
For my friends don't you see,
YOU are a hero to me..................much aloha Kaavi