(722)▪︎[ Thanks To A Man That You Never Knew … 8•28•2021 ]

[ Back In June Of ’86, A Basketball Player Named Len Bias Was A
     Man That You Never Knew ]
[ You Read That He Was A Phenomenal College Basketball Player ]
[ Who Got Picked By The Boston Celtics When They Had Pick (#2) ]

[ In That Years NBA Draft ] 
[ When The Commissioner Announced His Name ]
[ Nobody Laughed ]

[ So Then ]
[ Len ]
[ Went To A Party That Night With Some Friends ]

[ He Made A Fatal Mistake With One Single Choice ]
[ Nobody Talked To Him In A Reasonable Voice ]

[ The Kind ]
[ That Would Have Tried To Change His Mind ]

[ He Got Talked Into Snorting A Line Of Cocaine ]
[ It Went Straight To His Brain ]

[ His Friends Didn’t Lie ]
[ It Instantly Gave Him A High ]

[ But Then The Cocaine Went Into Overload ]
[ & Made His Heart Explode ]

[ He Was Dead Before ]
[ He Hit The Floor ]

[ The Drug Was Something That You Tried About (4) Times In
     The Years Prior ]
[ It Felt Like Such A Nice High ]
[ But Thankfully The Need For It Didn’t Become Dire ]

[ Both Of Your Blood Siblings Were Addicted To Drugs &
     Alcohol @ (1) Time ]
[ Your Older Sister Would Spend Her Last Dime ]

[ For Her Next Fix ]
[ If You Wanted To See The Effects Of More Than (40) Years
     Of Hard Drug Use ]
[ Just Look @ Her Pics ]

[ You Knew That Addiction Runs In Your Family History In
     The Past ]
[ It Seems Like She Took One Taste Of Something ]
[ & She Got Addicted Really Fast ]

[ The Night That Your Biological Father Came Home Drunk ]
[ & Then He Shot Himself In His Head After Trying To Murder
     His Girlfriend ]
[ Your Heart Sunk ]

[ That Should Have Been A Huge Warning Sign For You
     & Your Sister @ A Very Young Age ]
[ You Had Front Row Seats To The Stage ]
[ Watching The Ultimate Act Of Rage ]

[ So Your Handful Of Tastes With Cocaine Was Walking
     A Fine ]
[ Line ]

[ When You Read That Sports Illustrated During That Month
     Of June ]
[ It Woke You Up Out Of Your Personal Cocoon ]

[ It Showed What Drugs Can Do ]
[ If That Could Happen To A Finely Tuned Athlete ]
[ That Could Happen To You Too ]

[ The Death Of Len Bias Probably Saved You From A Possible
     Life Of Drug Use ]
[ Thankfully It Never Got To The Level Of Drug Abuse ]

[ It Is Sad To Say That A Death Saved Your Life ]
[ Reading About Len Bias’s Death Turned On A Very Bright
     Light ]

[ A Light, That Has Yet To Fade ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[ Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ]

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