21 November 2025

Redemption

As the summer breeze flows through the trees
Birds chatter in a distance humming a symphony
The soft midmorning sun blesses her cheeks
While she toils in the garden happily.

A new dawn has come to brighten the life
Of a woman who once was burdened with strife
Refreshed from a past so filled with pain
Redemption of a soul once left out in the rain.

Friends are far and few in between
People tell stories but don't know what it means
Those people have become former adversaries
Because they no longer hold power over she.

Kahala Lei
circa Nowemapa 2025

12 June 2025

Volume of Absentia

The sounds of silence are louder than any word compilation

Expectations of a presence, when yet there is none to be had

Listening with one large mouth, but not two capable ears

Never hearing reasoning, for that would state formidable revelation

Emotional wounds preferred over ideal thoughts of elation


Legacy ghosts float while shouting unheard wisdom

Presence viewed as confrontation, breeching shame

Friends seeking self-service by claiming representation

Because absence speaks in volumes.


Kahala Lei

copyright June 2025