The jet plane is full of expectations
      Gleaming eyes,

    Sweaty palms,the
  Clouds toss and turn in the
  Strong tradewinds and dreams of a lifetime

Fulfilled at last in sunshine

Loose talk and loving gazes

    Couples and singles, alone
 

Home–for me removed and hopeful tourists

    Returning or first-time

    like a first love made a new or renewed

-Everyone comes from afar
      like a soldier going home at last
      beneath us in a steel box...
   

Mixture of laughter and love now
      makes my Hawaiian rose so perfect
      the test of time and endured

Oh I loathe the bittersweet of homecoming 
      and leaving

Like a blue swirling unsettled Pacific below

 My thoughts wander about the next hour
      How long has it been? 

 One day like a year and a year like a day
      Flying over the ocean bears no mercy

 only memories of Hawaii carved so fragrant
      Opens now before me

 My Hawaiian rose...