Oahu

[Trillium]

Good morning (at least where I am) I read this last night but needed to think about it a bit before posting a reply. It seems to me from the first stanza that you are using ants as a reference for scale both size and distance. I don’t see the link between scale (ants versus humans or people seen from a distance) and tourists pondering scale. I feel that this conceptual link needs more development in the second and third stanzas. The final phrase seems disconnected from the rest of the poem. I don’t understand the connection between scale, people pondering perspective or reflecting and resilience.
You have made me yearn for the feeling of sand on my feet and for vast views over the water.