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.