Joe Balaz and Peter Chamberlain





JUST LIKE WUN JELLYFISH



I’m just like wun jellyfish
floating all around.

I no really harbor myself 
anywheah.


Sometimes 
I drift  into somebody

and find out 
deah’s wun mutual fascination              

to explore da creative muse
dat both of us flow wit.


It’s wun 
stimulating experience

foa little while

but den I float off 
into open watah again

to continue to do my own ting.


Jellyfish, jellyfish,
floating wit da currents,

floating wit da tides,

floating to da pull of da moon,

shining like wun big 
all knowing eye.


No moa wun plan
until I get deah

and wen I’m briefly deah
I’m soon to be gone.


Look at all
 
da different paper boats
wit all kine writing on top

dat I wen set adrift

foa go 
wheahevah dey going go

before I wen move on.


Jellyfish, jellyfish,
floating all around,

jellyfish, jellyfish,

seemingly lost

but deep inside
always found.          


Before the Beginning                  

pō         Where all things came from   
              in Hawaiian belief.


DA QUESTION IS



Da universe is still expanding.

Da question is—  

Into wat?


Maybe get wun evolving 
and constant fabric  

way out deah in da cosmos
holding everyting togettah

and it may not be as random 
and chaotic

as you tink it is.



Just look at wun eclipse
as wun example.


Da sun is how huge 
and how far away?

Da moon is how big 
and how close to da earth?

Wat is da size of da earth 
in relation
 
to dose two 
very different heavenly bodies?—


It’s amazing
how everyting lines up perfectly

to give you wun nice 
ring corona 

to make you gaze and wonder.


It’s wun brief 
and awe inspiring fascination

but it does return 
from time to time

with regularity.


From time, to time, to time,
to time,

just like 
da expanding universe.


Humankind

sometimes 
wit its intelligence and science

assumes wun position
of arrogance.


Da reason dat everyting
is so big out deah

is because it is.


I would venture to say

dat even da most staunch
atheist or laboratory egghead

should at least dwell
upon da notion

of converting
 
dose exploratory 
brain wavelengths

into tinking like wun agnostic. 


I’m not suggesting
dat you cover your bases.

I’m simply saying
dat deah’s moa going on out deah

den just doing da laundry
or feeding da cat.


       
Words by Joe Balaz and music by Peter Chamberlain

Peter Chamberlain is an artist, musician, and producer.
He lives in Palolo, Hawai’i. Visit his website.

 
 

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