(830)▪︎[ It Is What It Is … 9•27•2020 ]

[ Disrespect ]
[ Is That What You Get? ]
[ Or ]
[ Is That What You Have Come To Expect? ]

[ Will It Be A Word Today? ]
[ Or An Action ]
[ That Is Done Or Said In The Most Disrespectful Way? ]

[ You Grew Up, Being Told Repeatedly ]
[ & Then Later, Not So Sweetly ]

[ You Need To Respect Your Elders All Of The Time ]
[ Always ]
[ Anytime & Everytime ]

[ Has That Gone Away Like Love Thy Neighbor? ]
[ Oftentimes ]
[ You Are Not Even Given A Name To Remember ]

[ When & Wherever You Grew Up You Probably Knew All
The Names Of Everyone On Your Block ]
[ Even Before You Figured Out How To Read The Wall Clock ]

[ Society Is So Closed Off & Impersonal ]
[ Now ]
[ No One Wants To Get The Virus While In The B
Terminal ]

[ You Can’t Show A Smile To Anyone While Wearing A Mask ]
[ You Don’t Say (HOW ARE YOU?) ]
[ Because They Can’t Understand Why You’d Even Ask ]

[ Society Has Began To Become Polarized ]
[ Because Of This Curse Of A Virus ]
[ We Can’t Normalize ]
[ Because We Can’t Socialize ]

[ How Can You Show Respect To Someone Who Has To
Stay ]
[ Six Feet Away ]
[ They Probably Would Not Even Understand Or Hear A Nice
Word That You Would Say ]

[ Why Is Respect Missing? ]
[ Nobody Is Kissing ]
[ So They Turn Their Energy Into Dismissing ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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