[ Are Friends What Makes The World Go Around? ]
[ They Help You Keep Your Feet Firmly On The Ground ]
[ They Are There When They Are Needed ]
[ Their Advice Is Heeded ]
[ Friends Are There With A Kind Word Or Two ]
[ They Show Empathy With Your Problems ]
[ So You Know It’s Just Not You ]
[ With The Problems You Have ]
[ That Makes The Problems Not Seem So Bad ]
[ Their Love ]
[ Fits Like A Glove ]
[ Over Your Heart ]
[ Because Sometimes There Are Long Stretches Of Time When
You Are Apart ]
[ But When You Do Talk To Them It Feels Like The Good Old Days ]
[ Then It Feels Like They’ve Never Been Away ]
[ & When You Hang Up The Phone ]
[ The Good Feeling Stays ]
[ There Are Good Friends From High School, College & Facebook ]
[ That You Want To Keep Up On ]
[ So You Go On Their Page To Just Take A Look ]
[ Show That You Care ]
[ & Let Them Know You Were There ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Author: rdvoe165
I Am A 62yrs Young Man, That Just Enjoys Writing Short Poetic Stories From My Thoughts. I Hope That You Enjoy Them As Much As I Do Writing Them.
(429)▪︎[ What Day Was That … 5•21•2021 ]
[ One Bright Sunny Wednesday, I Was Sitting Here Counting
Down The Days Until Friday ]
[ I Did Not Want To Go Too Fast So Then All Of A Sudden It
Would Be Saturday & Saturday Is One Day Too Far After Friday,
Which Is Where I Was Waiting, Wishing, Wanting & Needing To Go ]
[ So Wednesday Is The Day Before Thursday & Thursday Is The Day Before Friday, Which Is Where I Wished I Was ]
[ Because Friday Is Your Monday, Even Though It Is Right Before Saturday, Your Tuesday ]
[ If Saturday Is Your Tuesday Would That Make Sunday Your Thursday Or Your Wednesday? ]
[ If Monday Is Your Friday, What Day Is Your Wednesday? ]
[ Wednesday Is Hump Day Because It Is Three Days Away, Or After, Sunday & Three Days Away, Or Before From Saturday ]
[ But I Am Looking For Friday, The Day Before Saturday ]
[ Friday Is Always Saturdays Yesterday & Thursdays Tomorrow ]
[ Then What Happened To Thursday? ]
[ You Don’t Really Have A Thursday, Unless You Make Your Sunday Your Thursday & Still Be Able To Call Your Monday Your Friday ]
[ Tuesday’s Are One Of Two Days That Are Kind Of Looked Over, Around & Past ]
[ They Are The Day After The Day That People Dread That Is Coming ]
[ They Are A Long Ways Away From The Day That People Hope That Comes Faster, Friday ]
[ The Other Day That Is Glossed Over Is Thursday ]
[ But On Wednesday, Friday Doesn’t Come Until The Day After Tomorrow ]
[ Tomorrow Is Really Thursday, One Day Before Your Monday ]
[ But That Makes Monday Your Friday & Friday Your Monday ]
[ Then What Ever Happened To The Day Before Friday, Which Would Be Thursday? ]
[ If That Is Your Sunday Why Don’t You Work On Thursdays? ]
[ If You Worked On Thursdays I Would Be Looking Forward To Wednesdays Tomorrow, Not Saturdays Yesterday ]
[ Does That All Make A Bit Of Sense? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(150)▪︎[ Change … 2•18•2021 ].
[ To Prevent A Bad Situation From Repeating Itself ]
[ People Have To Look Within Themselves ]
[ People Need To Have Truth Before Reconciliation ]
[ But Without Truth ]
[ Others Cannot Even Have A Conversation ]
[ Sometimes There Are Three Sides To Every Story ]
[ Without One Side Seeking Glory ]
[ There Is Always Their Side & The Other Side, Then
The Truth When Both Sides Are Combined ]
[ The Person Trying To Put The Story Together ]
[ Must Not Show That They Are Aligned ]
[ On One Side Or The Other ]
[ Because It Is Not Right To Always Believe The Sister Over
The Brother ]
[ Some People Try To Mold Others Like Them ]
[ Most Of The Time ]
[ That Becomes A Big Problem ]
[ The World Does Not Need A Population Full Of Clones ]
[ & Society Doesn’t Need To Have Their Privacy Invaded By
A Bunch Of Flying Drones ]
[ Who Wants To Be In The Privacy Of Their Own Backyard ]
[ Then Look Up To See Your Neighbors Drone That Has
A Working Camera ]
[ With A Memory Card? ]
[ That Would Make Peace With Your Neighbor Quite Hard! ]
[ People Must Take Personal Responsibility For Their
Own Actions ]
[ No Matter The Outside Distractions ]
[ That Is Where & When Most People Fail ]
[ That Might Be One Of The Reasons That A Large Part
Of Society ]
[ Is In Prison Or In Jail ]
[ Spending A Couple Of Days Or A Couple Of Decades ]
[ Being Consequenced ]
[ For The Poor Choices That They Made ]
[ Some Parts Of Society Falls Through The Cracks ]
[ Not Having Enough Money For Meals ]
[ So No Money For Snacks ]
[ But Sad To Say That Some People Die All Alone ]
[ Some People Cannot Be Reached By The Telephone ]
[ Some People Think That It May Be Only A Few ]
[ But It Comes Out To Be Many ]
[ If There Is Way More Than Two ]
[ When There Shouldn’t Be Any ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(140)▪︎[ What Does Make Sense … 2•14•2021 ]
[ When The World Does Not Make Sense ]
[ Making Sense Of The World Should Be All
That Matters ]
[ Because When The People Of The World Feel Tense ]
[ Alot Of Society Feels Battered ]
[ When Those Who Are In The Position Of Power
Don’t Lead ]
[ Then Most People In The Need ]
[ Do Not Get Enough To Eat ]
[ Or Have Enough Money To Be Able To Put Shoes
& Socks On Their Children’s Feet ]
[ Food Becomes So Scarce Their Cupboards Become
Bare ]
[ When Those People Are Hungry ]
[ They Don’t Have The Ability & Money To Get Food
From Anywhere ]
[ People Are Becoming Homeless From The Left
& The Right ]
[ Alot Of Them Are So Tired & Burned Out ]
[ They Don’t Have The Energy To Put Up A Good Fight ]
[ When A Part Of Society Feels Beaten’ ]
[ & A Good Many Of Them Have Not Eaten’ ]
[ They Take To The Streets ]
[ They Lash Out Because Of Suffering Through Too Many
Defeats ]
[ The Lower Income Class ]
[ Always Feel Like They Have Been Passed ]
[ Over Time & Time Again ]
[ They Are Never Put In A Position To Win ]
[ The Upper Income Class Always Turn Their Backs ]
[ So The Lower Income People In Society ]
[ Falls Through The Cracks ]
[ They Are So Tired & Sick ]
[ That They Have Never Been Represented In Today’s
Politics ]
[ It Takes Alot Of Money To Successfully Run ]
[ & It Has Been The Richer Person Who Has Won ]
[ Because When The Money Runs Out ]
[ That Candidates Campaign Is Done ]
[ That Means No Representation In The Upper Levels
Of The Senate Or Congress ]
[ Having Their Most Important Needs Are Heard Less
& Less ]
[ Never Aleviating The Mess ]
[ That They Find Themselves In Today ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(137)▪︎[ How Things Are … 2•12•2021 ]
[ Joyous Be To All ]
[ Until You Hit That Proverbial Wall ]
[ But Sometimes That Wall Comes Up So You
Can Rest & Lean On ]
[ Sometimes Until You See The Light Of Dawn ]
[ When You See That Bright ]
[ Sunlight ]
[ Does That Mean That Everything Is Going To Come Out
Alright? ]
[ Not Necessarily ]
[ Because The Sun Comes Up Really Early ]
[ Too Early For Most ]
[ Too Early For Scrambled Green Eggs, Orange Juice & Toast ]
[ But What Happens When You Are Unable To Sleep? ]
[ Even Though You Took All Of Your Night Meds &
Counted Sheep ]
[ That Technique Has Never Worked For You In The Past ]
[ Because Sometimes You Went Too Slow ]
[ While Other Times You Counted Too Fast ]
[ Usually Your Night Meds Knock You Out ]
[ Other Times Your Mind Takes A Different Route ]
[ One That Takes You To Crazy Land ]
[ Where ]
[ There ]
[ Is Alot Of Hurt & Demands ]
[ Nobody Cares ]
[ That Oftentimes You Feel Like A Broken Man ]
[ That Does NOT Have A Plan ]
[ There Is No Plan ( B ) In The Center Of Your Mind ]
[ There Is Nothing That Even Resembles ]
[ A Rescuing Kind ]
[ Sink Or Swim Is Where You Seem To Be ]
[ So If You Don’t Want To Believe ]
[ You Really Need To Open Your Eyes & See ]
[ How Things Really Are ]
[ From Up Close ]
[ & From Really Far ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(136)▪︎[ Those Dark Clouds … 2•12•2021 ]
[ Whenever The Dark Clouds Roll In ]
[ I Always Wonder When The Rain Will Begin ]
[ Again ]
[ Does The Rain Have An Alternate Meaning Behind It? ]
[ Something Bad Or Something Legit? ]
[ My Memory Oftentimes Plays Games On My Mind ]
[ Sometimes I Think I Am Ahead Of The Game ]
[ But In Reality I Am Way Behind ]
[ Once I Feel I Have The Answers To The Most Important
Questions In My Life ]
[ Then Reality Hits Me ]
[ & Pushes Me Off Of My Trike ]
[ It Seems That I Am Still Trying To Navigate Forward In The
Human Race ]
[ When I Look Around @ Society ]
[ I Am Trying To Figure Out My Place ]
[ Am I Towards The Front Of The Line Or In The Middle ]
[ It Seems That There Are As Many Questions ]
[ As There Are Riddles ]
[ I Have Seen That It Is Very Clear ]
[ That There Are No ( KNOCK KNOCK ) Jokes Around
Here ]
[ It Is Even Harder To Find Here Or There ]
[ Someone That Wants To Share ]
[ Or Even Someone That Shows They Care ]
[ Alot Of Time Is Spent In Silence To Personally Reflect ]
[ So When You Are In A Conversation You Won’t Constantly
Deflect ]
[ & Lose That Person’s Respect ]
[ It Is An ( I ) World Out There Now It Seems ]
[ To 85% Of Society ]
[ There Is No Longer The Ability To Obtain ( THE AMERICAN
DREAM ) ]
[ & That Seems Sad ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(129)▪︎[ Sleepless In Salem … 2•8•2021 ]
[ I Have No Idea What Restful Sleep Feels Like ]
[ @ Times When I Get Up In The Morning ]
[ I Feel Like I Spent The Last 6 Hours Peddaling Hard On A Bike ]
[ My Whole Body Is Sore ]
[ I Am Foggy ]
[ Down To My Core ]
[ Every Night Is The Same Routine ]
[ I Can Close My Eyes @ Times ]
[ But Sleep Is No Where To Be Seen ]
[ I Don’t Know What The Secret Is To Get A Night Of Deep ]
[ Sleep ]
[ I Have Woke Up In The Morning Feeling Rested Once In The
Last 25 Years ]
[ Many Times During This Period Of Time ]
[ I Have Had Nightmares Because Of My Fears ]
[ Of Facing Death All Alone ]
[ The Silence Has A Very Distinctive Tone ]
[ No One Texts ]
[ Or Calls On The Phone ]
[ I Have No Idea Why Deep Sleep Is Such The Escape Artist With
Me? ]
[ How Can This Be? ]
[ Why Do These Sleepless Nights Affect Me So Much? ]
[ It Is Just Something That I Can’t See ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(128)▪︎[ When? … 2•7•2021 ]
[ How Do We, As A Whole Society, Ever Go Back To Being
Civil To Each Other, Again? ]
[ If We Haven’t Already Started ]
[ When Can We Begin? ]
[ We Just Don’t Say Anything To Strangers Anymore ]
[ When We Get Packages Delivered To Our House ]
[ The Drivers Don’t Even Knock On The Door ]
[ If My Dog Didn’t Start To Bark ]
[ I Would Had Never Known ]
[ That A Delivery Truck Drove Up & Parked ]
[ There Is No Longer Conversing With Others Face To Face ]
[ We Are Now A Masked Human Race ]
[ When A Stranger Comes Near You There Is No Such
Thing As A Nod Or A Smile ]
[ We No Longer Stop & Talk For Awhile ]
[ No Emotion Seen Through The Eyes That Peer Out Over
The Top ]
[ If You Go Within Anothers 6 Feet Of Space ]
[ You Are Immediately Told To ( STOP! ) ]
[ Nobody Smiles, Grins Or Frowns ]
[ No More Traveling To Other Towns ]
[ No More Leisurely Drives ]
[ All Over The News Every Day ]
[ Are Broadcasts About The Total Loss Of Lives ]
[ Anyone, Any Stranger, Can Be A Killer By Being A Carrier Of
The ‘VID ]
[ Maybe They Never Realized That They Got Infected By Their Kid ]
[ A Killer That No Longer Shoots Or Stabs ]
[ They Are Killing Others By Passing On A Deadly Virus That Is
Being Studied In Labs ]
[ The Scientists Are Trying To Find A Vaccine For A Virus Before
It Kills Us ]
[ Then Coming Up With A Vaccine That We Can Trust ]
[ People Coming By Car Or Bus ]
[ Being Told That Being Vaccinated Is Becoming A Must ]
[ But Right Now They Are Vaccinating Inmates ]
[ Before The Rest Of The Majority Of The Rest Of The
Population ]
[ So Most Of Us Have To Wait ]
[ For Our Vaccination ]
[ What Kind Of Hurts ]
[ Is That Some People Are Getting Their Second Shots ]
[ Before Some Of Us Have Received Our First ]
[ That Is Not Fair ]
[ But Most Of Those Don’t Care ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(425)▪︎[ Off The Fence … 5•20•2021 ]
[ As Anxiety & Depression Sweeps Across My Cloudy
Mind ]
[ I Sit Back & Attempt To Find ]
[ Something In My Life That Actually Makes Sense ]
[ Something, Where I Can Say I Am On This Specific Side
Of The Fence ]
[ Not Straddling Or Standing On Top ]
[ I Want To Pick A Side & Just Stop ]
[ The Hopping ]
[ The Dropping ]
[ The Shopping ]
[ For A Better Deal ]
[ Because I Am Not Trying To Reinvent The Wheel ]
[ I Am Just Trying To Make A Stand ]
[ No Matter The Demand ]
[ & Try To Get My Mind Into Better Shape ]
[ Instead Of Keeping In Mind Where All Of The Exits Are
For A Quick Escape ]
[ I Am Trying To Face These Issues Head-On ]
[ Instead Of Throwing Up My Arms In Defeat & Yelling
( OH, C’mon ) ]
[ Don’t Exasperate ]
[ When Looking Down @ My Fate ]
[ Trying To Lace Up My Big Boy Boots ]
[ Looking Somewhere To Put Down Some Roots ]
[ Not Trying To Wait ]
[ Since I Have Been In This House Since 2008 ]
[ What Better Place To Do That Than Here? ]
[ What Do I Have To Fear? ]
[ That Part … Has Never Been Clear ]
[ Like A Very Wise President ( F.D.R. ) Once Said ( … THE ONLY
THING THAT WE HAVE TO FEAR, IS FEAR ITSELF ) ]
[ Not Fear Of Ourselves ]
[ Or Fear Of Someone Else ]
[ I Think That The Fear Of Failure Is A Very Real Thing ]
[ I Think, That If There Was A Ranking ]
[ That Would Be The King ]
[ Is That Easy To Look Past? ]
[ You Can Never Do That Very Fast ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(409)▪︎[ All Of A Sudden … 5•14•2021 ]
[ If You Got A Sudden Case Of Amnesia But Then Was
Cured, How Would You Remember What You Forgot? ]
[ If You Were Standing On A Square Piece Of Wood ]
[ Could You Still Be Put On The Spot ]
[ Can Spots & Squares Intertwine? ]
[ If I Was Told To Count To Ten ]
[ Could I Take A Break @ Nine? ]
[ Do People See Blue Or Feel That Way? ]
[ If Someone Has Blues Eyes ]
[ Will The Eyes Look Sad All Day? ]
[ Could The 24 Hour Flu Go Overtime? ]
[ How Many Quarters Do You Need ]
[ To Save Up To Spend A Dime? ]
[ Time Flies, But It Can Also Drag ]
[ How Come When Something Seems Easy ]
[ People Say That They Have It In The Bag? ]
[ A Baseball Base ]
[ A Military Base ]
[ What Do They Have In Common With Each Other ]
[ When You Have A Good One ]
[ Do You Want Another? ]
[ I Would Know ]
[ Because I Would Say ( NO ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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