[ You Seem To Be An Awfully Strong Young Man Walking
Around Out In Society ]
[ Wrapped Up With Problems & Struggling Just To Remain Free ]
[ Free From Poverty & Feeling Handcuffed By Other People’s
Anger & Oppressive Ways ]
[ Sometimes You Do Not Feel Free For Days ]
[ Oppressed ]
[ Unimpressed ]
[ Culminating Into Being Depressed ]
[ You No Longer Have A Father Or Mother ]
[ To Go To ]
[ God Took Your Only Brother ]
[ Away From You, Too ]
[ Overdrawn On Your Two Checking Accounts From Different
Banks ]
[ No One Around To Give You A Hand Up ]
[ So There Would Be No One To Tip Your Hat To, So There Is
No Need To Say ( THANKS ) ]
[ Each Task Becomes One More Added On To Make The Number On
The List Look Numerous ]
[ & Each Task Becomes Onerous ]
[ You Watch Out For Others While You Attempt To Put Your
Friends Problems On Your Broad Shoulders ]
[ During An Age Of Selfish Times ]
[ & Because You iAre In The Times ]
[ Everywhere On Your Body, Exudes Pain ]
[ A Pain Free Day Is Something That You Will Never Obtain ]
[ But You Persevere & Walk With Your Head Held High ]
[ (9) Out Of (10) People That You Come Into Contact With ]
[ Turn Their Back & Says ( GOODBYE ) ]
[ But Does What Others Do ]
[ Really Bother Or Affect You? ]
[ When You Hold Up Your Shield ]
[ Does That Make Others Yield? ]
[ Whenever You Think That They Don’t ]
[ You Go To A Place Where They Won’t ]
[ Which Is Behind Your Emotional, Protective Wall ]
[ Where Most People Are Not Allowed Behind ]
[ Even If They Attempt To Call ]
[ A Call That Would Go Directly To Your Voicemail Folder ]
[ But You Won’t Listen To Them Until You Get Older ]
[ Sometimes Your Thoughts Get Lost In The Maze ]
[ Of Your Brain ]
[ Sometimes In Your Haze ]
[ You Fail To See The Light Of The Oncoming Train ]
[ One Problem With His Way Of Thinking ]
[ Could Lead Most People To Start Drinking ]
[ & He No Longer Gets Any More Deep ]
[ Sleep ] I
[ Leaving Him Staggering Throughout The Day Half Awake ]
[ Inches Away From Making Serious Mistakes ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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