Blue Pacific

(for P.Y.)
 Here I am: "Hometown Boy Makes Good"
 Writes one critic.
 All my childhood I lived
 By the blue Pacific.
 Anytime that reality
 Makes me heartsick
 I come here just to stare
 At the blue Pacific
 Sea. And barefoot on the beach
 I watch for you on the horizon.
 That's where you promised you would be.
 I've seen your face before in my imagination.
 One day my eyes will learn to see.
 Here by the blue Pacific where
 The diamond water shimmers in the sun.
 By the blue Pacific where
 The gull still glides and waves divide
 The silence just like time.
 Understandably happy to be specific
 When I'm snorkeled and finned
 In the blue Pacific.
 I admire the damselfish
 Feel terrific
 As I float on the face
 Of the blue Pasific.