[ You Try Too Hard In A World Full Of People Who Don’t Try Enough ]
[ Very Few People Are Made Of The Right Stuff ]
[ That Makes Your Life Pretty Tough ]
[ & Your Day To Day Struggle Kind Of Rough ]
[ You Have Been Through Alot, During The Almost Sixty Two Years On This Earth ]
[ You Were Even Abused By The Mother Who Gave You Birth ]
[ Did That Forever Lock In Your Worth? ]
[ Making You Feel Not Better Than Dirt ]
[ You Have Separation Anxiety To The Highest Degree ]
[ That Is One Personality Trait That You Try Not To Let Other’s See ]
[ You Have Never Felt That You Are Completely Free ]
[ Most Of The Time You Are Relegated To Be Down On One Knee ]
[ Your Mind Constantly Recreates The Reasons That You Feel So Haunted ]
[ You Are Tired Of Thinking About The Reasons Why You Feel So Unwanted]
[ The Demons Are Once Again Trying To Poke Through Your Skin ]
[ Sometimes You Wonder Where The Ending Is ]
[ Where Was The Point Where They Started To Win ]
[ Some Of The Harshest, Most Hurtful Comments, Come From Your Kin ]
[ From your Own Kid To Be Exact ]
[ One Thing That You Know As Fact ]
[ That Son Of Yours Has Zero Tact ]
[ It Would’ve Been Much Easier To Bite A Bullet Years Ago ]
[ But Now You Are Dragged Through Hell ]
[ Really Slow ]
[ But Nobody Asks About It, So You Won’t Tell ]
[ It Has Never Been Clear ]
[ Which Way Is Up ]
[ Where Do You Go From Here ]
[ Your Back Hurts, But So Does Your Whole Body ]
[ If You Were Ever A Weather Forecast ]
[ You Would Be, “Mostly Cloudy” ]
[ Storm Clouds Coming Down From The North ]
[ The East – Winds Blowing All The Piles Of Leaves ]
[ Back & Forth ]
[ Causing The Person, With The Rake In Their Hands, To Almost Go Mad ]
[ When He See’s All The Damage ]
[ That’s When It Hits Him & He Feels Really Sad ]
[ If You Feel You Are On A Treadmill Going Nowhere Fast ]
[ All Of The Other Runner’s In The Human Race Running Past ]
[ Might Make You Feel Like You Are Coming In Last ]
[ You Trudge On Trying To Get To That Faraway Finish Line ]
[ You Don’t Know If That Is When You Turn (62) Years Old ]
[ Or Will That Be Around (79?) ]
[ You Don’t Look For The Easiest Route ]
[ Writing Takes Up Most Of Your Time ]
[ So You Don’t Sit Around & Pout ]
[ Pouting Or Asking For Sympathy Has Never Been Your Thing ]
[ You Don’t Do Karaoke Because You Cannot Sing ]
[ You Have A Queen In The House ]
[ But You Wish Throughout Your Marriage You Could Have Gifted Her More Bling ]
[ You Have Alot Of Regrets ]
[ That You’ve Always Wanted To Forget ]
[ Maybe Someday You Will ]
Mahalo Nui Loa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
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