Ka Po’e o Ka Malamalama

This article was an answer to my prayers....


Ka Po’e o Ka Malamalama

In a world filled with technological advances
we are starved for wisdom
Our quiet knowing is obliterated
by the frantic stress of a modern world.
Perhaps one day soon we will conclude
that faster is not always better,
and more is never enough.
At the dawn of a new millennium,
it would be wise to re-write the script.
Let us consider giving greater value to the sacredness of
our everyday lives,
bathed in stillness long enough to remember when we were
Ka Po’e o ka Malamalama
How different our circumstances would be if we
remembered that as
one race, divinely human,
we were born for a higher destiny.
Like ancient mariners who charted their canoes into
unknown seas,
we are now the voyagers.
As it was with our ancestors, our resources as we know
them on this vessel called Earth are finite,
making our reliance upon one another crucial.
It is time we cast light into the dark places called fear,
a fear which separates us by color, culture, and economies.
Call it what you will prejudice, hatred, anger, judgment,
self-inflicted pain.
it is borne of the same bitter, diseased fruit, which serves no one.
Into this yet unwritten chapter entitled “The 21st Century”
upon pages crisp with promise, we, the authors of its
beginning,
would be wise to compose an enlightened legacy for
those yet to be,
a composition of wisdom and courage, of humility and
forgiveness;
a place where success is not measured by wealth and
power
but by compassionate concern for others,
and where the value of youthfulness gives way to the
wisdom of age.
Like the stars which guided our forefathers into vast new
frontiers,
this literary endowment would serve to illumine
the path for future generations.
Imbued with our love and sealed with aloha, this magnum
opus
would reveal our return to our sacred birthright,
Ka Po’e o ka Malamalama,
The people of the Light

Dr. Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey Buyers: President, LLB Productions