(499)▪︎[ Oh, That Fun Son … 6•17•2021]

[ Nothing Is Sacred, Nothing, Is Out Of Bounds ]
[ Then, Nobody Makes Any Sounds ]

[ He Crosses The Line ]
[ Every … Single … Time ]

[ I Buy Something New & He Uses It ]
[ I Buy Something New & He Breaks It ]
[ Or Ruins It ]

[ It Doesn’t Matter What It Is ]
[ Whenever I Get Something New, He Thinks It Is His ]

[ He Comes Into Our Bedroom To Search ]
[ Like An Eagle Sitting On Their Perch ]

[ He Sets Off Such Rage ]
[ Because It Does Not Matter His Age ]

[ He Has Done This Since 8 Or 9 Years Old ]
[ Even @ Such A Young Age, He Was Very Bold ]

[ When Does This Stop? ]
[ When Can I Let The Restrictions Drop? ]

[ When Should I Make Him Leave? ]
[ Because He Doesn’t Fall In With What I Believe? ]

[ The Things He Is Doing Is So Disgusting & Crude ]
[ I Am Really Going To Start Giving A Cold Attitude ]

[ & What He Is Doing Is Gross ]
[ Like Trying To Eat A Piece Of Burnt Toast ]

[ Maybe He Will Cross The Line That Will Land Him In Jail ]
[ I Wouldn’t Accept Any Personal Mail ]
[ Because I Won’t Come Up With Money To Make His Bail ]

[ Maybe He Will Learn ]
[ When It Will Be His Turn ]
[ If Not … He Could Just Watch His Future Burn ]

[ Up ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(500)▪︎[ What You Can Bring To The Table … 6•17•2021 ]

[ There Comes A Time In Your Life When You Have To Pull Up
     Your Big-Boy Pants ]
[ There Will Be A Time & A Reason ]
[ It Would Not Be By Chance ]

[ Either ]
[ Nope, Neither ]

[ There Was A Time When You Had To Stop Acting & Being A Child ]
[ There Was A Time During Your Twenties ]
[ When You Had To Stop Going Out To The Clubs Getting Drunk
     & Acting Wild ]

[ It Is Not Like You Have Stopped Living ]
[ You Will Find That What Is Fun ]
[ Is When You Are Able To Bring People Together & Enjoy Gift
     Giving ]

[ Giving Is The Best Thing ]
[ The Worst Feeling ]
[ Is When You Catch Someone Stealing ]

[ You Hope To See People As They Really Are ]
[ You Don’t Get Impressed When They Drive Up In An Expensive
     Car ]

[ It Would Be Nice If People Would Take Each Other @ Their
     Word ]
[ Sometimes It Is A Nice Thought That Later In Life You Would Be
     Able To Travel The World ]

[ Trust In & From Others Is A Very Important Thing ]
[ When People Are Trusting That Is A Wonderful Quality
     To Bring ]

[ To The Table When You Meet Someone New ]
[ The Most Important Trait To Come With ]
[ Is The Ability To Just Be You ]

[ Not Someone Older ]
[ Not Someone With Bigger Shoulders ]

[ The Biggest Gift ]
[ Is When You Can Give All Of Yourself ]
[ Without Causing A Rift ]

[ Things Are Good ]
[ When You Are Understood ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

( 01 )▪︎[ That Loss … 1•1•2021 ]

[ Have You Ever Been @ A Loss For That One Word? ]
[ Because Of Something You Just Heard? ]

[ It Was So Bizarre, You Did A Double Take ]
[ When You Thought About It Real Deep ]
[ You Said ( WHAT SENSE DOES THAT MAKE? ) ]

[ When You Think Of Such ]
[ Of A Comment ]
[ You Know That It Was Not So Much ]

[ So It Was About Time ]
[ That He Went His Way ]
[ & You Went Home To Get A Glass Of Wine ]

[ & In Some Weird Way ]
[ That Helped ]
[ You Have A Better Day ]

[ So When You ]
[ Look @ That Clue ]
[ You Knew ]
[ What To Do ]

[ The Next Time You See Him, Say ( HI ) ]
[ & Then Also ]
[ Say Your ( GOODBYE ) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(431)▪︎[ Have You Ever? … 4•29•2020 ]

[ Have You Ever Been So Out Of Sync ]
[ That When Someone Gives You A Wink ]
[ It Causes You To Blink? ]

[ Where Do You Look? ]
[ To Help You Explain ]
[ That You May Need To Find The Answer When You Read The
Right Book ]

[ Have You Stopped Giving A Damn? ]
[ So You Just Want To Go Back Outside ]
[ & Bury Your Head In The Sand? ]

[ How Do You Fill The Hole ]
[ In Your Soul? ]

[ What Would Fill The Hole Up ]
[ Real Tight ]
[ So It Stays Shut ]
[ Past Tonight? ]

[ Starting Above ]
[ The Middle Line ]
[ It Needs Lots Of Love ]
[ To Be Better Than Fine ]

[ Then You Find That You Do Not Like The Taste Of Dirt ]
[ So You Pull Your Head Out ]
[ & Deal With The Hurt ]

[ Hurt Can Eventually Subside ]
[ & Once Again You Feel Dignified ]
[ Unless Someone Lied ]

[ Then You Are Back To Where You Began ]
[ But This Time You Stand ]
[ Like A Grown Man ]

[ Without The Fear ]
[ Of Feeling Ridiculous & Ashamed ]
[ If You Happen To Shed A Tear ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(407)▪︎[ A Bad Flash … 4•23•2020 ]

[ I Just Came Out Of A Really Long, Hard Flashback ]
[ Now My Shoulder Hurts ]
[ But Not Even Close To The Pain That I Hurt In My
Lower Back ]

[ I Do Not Know What Is Causing These ]
[ If Anyone Knows ]
[ Could You Give Me The Answer Please? ]

[ & Right Away ]
[ If Not Today ]

[ Could You Bless Me With One Tomorrow? ]
[ Before I Have More Pain ]
[ & Sorrow? ]

[ Bad Back, Bad Back Go Away, Please ]
[ & If It’s For Only One Day ]
[ That Would Be A Tease ]
[ In Anyway ]
[ I Wish This Pain Would Ease ]

[ What Point Is It Trying To Make? ]
[ Subtracting Years Off Of My Life ]
[ Is What It Takes ]

[ & In It’s Place ]
[ Now I Have Much More ]
[ Wrinkles On My Face ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(395)▪︎[ If You Say So … 4•21•2020 ]

[ What Do You Do Next, When You Know What You Know ? ]
[ Do You Go ]
[ Where Others Say So? ]

[ Why Is That? ]
[ Why Not Be As Unpredictable & Wirey ]
[ As An Alley Cat? ]

[ What Is Holding You Down? ]
[ To Keep You Tied To A Tree In The Ground? ]

[ Can’t You See ]
[ How You Have Wanted & Needed To Be ]
[ Set Free? ]

[ To See The Things ]
[ That You Can Bring ]

[ You Can Be Colorful ]
[ & Loveable ]

[ But Sometimes That Is Not Very Fun ]
[ For Everyone ]

[ Nobody Likes To Be In A Place ]
[ Where Someone Is In Their Face ]

[ & It Makes Them Cough ]
[ So Others Back Off ]

[ Back Off & Back Up ]
[ When You Walk Out Through That Door ]
[ You Need To Make Sure That It Shuts ]

[ Behind You ]
[ Because That Will Undoubtedly Show ]
[ That You Do NOT Want To See This Through ]

[ Okay ]
[ You Say? ]
[ Okay ]
[ They Say ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(370)▪︎[ Too Dense … 4•14•2020 ]

[ Where Does Your Mind Go, When Your Body Falls Asleep ]
[ Does Your Mind Tell Your Mouth ]
[ To Not Make A Peep? ]

[ With All Of These Days Of Continuous Isolation ]
[ Do You Feel The Desolation? ]

[ Is There Confusion? ]
[ Or Is There Delusion? ]

[ What To Do, What To Do, With All Of This Free Time? ]
[ I Will Spend It All ]
[ Writing Rhyme After Rhyme ]
[ Not Making A Call ]
[ Just To Drop A Dime ]

[ Not All The Stories Are Worth Repeating ]
[ Don’t Turn Those Attempts ]
[ Into A Psychological Beating ]

[ But Where Does Your Mind Go ]
[ When Things Are Slow? ]
[ Do You Ever Know? ]

[ When My Mind Checks Out? ]
[ I Wonder ( WHAT’s THAT ALL ABOUT? ) ]

[ I Can Never Get An Answer That Makes Sense ]
[ Maybe I’m Too Dense ]
[ Or Others Don’t Want Me To Know What
Happens On That Side Of The Fence ]

[ So I Can Understand ]
[ The Demand ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(487)▪︎[ Where Did It All Go? … 6•13•2021 ]

[ I Should Have Summoned Up The Powers ]
[ To Give You All My Hours ]

[ Time Slips By Way Too Fast ]
[ & Memories Oftentimes Do Not Last ]

[ Sometimes Gravity ]
[ Keeps Ahold Of Me ]

[ Just When I Want To Float ]
[ I Turn To Grab My Coat ]

[ But Gravity Is Like An Ankle Weight ]
[ Holding Me Down In A Frozen State ]

[ I Always Needed You Be My Side ]
[ I Liked To Walk With You ]
[ Smiling, With Alot Of Pride ]

[ Sometimes Things Were Hot With Us ]
[ Then They Weren’t ]
[ & I Have No Idea When The Wheels Came Off The Bus ]

[ I Used To Think Our Bond Was Strong ]
[ Which One Of The Past Years Was To Blame ]
[ For When Everything Went Wrong? ]

[ All Of My Future Plans Went Up In Smoke ]
[ All Of Our Pinkie Deals Are Now Forever Broke ]

[ ( HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? ) Is What I Yell ]
[ All Of My Dreams Have Gone To Hell ]

[ When We Were Together, I Felt That I Was Living The Dream ]
[ Now I Feel Like I Am In A Paddleless Canoe ]
[ Trying To Travel Upstream ]

[ Who Would Have Thought That Everything Would Have
Been Swept Down The Drain ]
[ With The Next Big Rain ]

[ Dreams Come ]
[ & Dreams Go ]
[ I Feel So Dumb ]
[ With The Things That I Now Know ]

[ Will This Affect Me In My Next Relationship ]
[ Well Maybe Next Time, I Won’t Want To Be Connected @ The Hip ]

[ Maybe Give Her Alot More Room ]
[ Before I Start Picturing Myself As Her Groom ]

[ Whoever Said That Time Heals All Wounds Was Not Always
Right ]
[ Sometimes After The Darkness Comes ]
[ It Is Hard To See The Light ]

[ Maybe I Will Have Better Luck Next Time ]
[ Unless You Can Only Find Luck In Stories That Rhyme ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(489)▪︎[ Wow, Did I Mess Up … 6•13•2021 ]

[ Sometimes I Need To Remember To Hold On To What I’ve Got ]
[ Even Though There Are Times When I Act Like I Forgot ]

[ I Apologize All Over Myself ]
[ Because My Eyes Were Looking @ Someone Else ]

[ I Could Never Realize ]
[ How Much Hurt That You Had In Your Eyes ]

[ When You Saw Me Walking With Her Hand In Mine ]
[ I Could See By Your Expression ]
[ You Definitely Did Not Look Like You Were Going Dakine ]

[ When You Caught Me There ]
[ I Immediately Thought That Our Love Was Beyond Repair ]

[ You Waited Several Days ]
[ To Talk To Me About The Error Of My Ways ]

[ I Never Should Have Let That Other Thing Begin ]
[ I Never Want To Commit That Sin ]
[ On You, Ever Again ]

[ I Will Not Tell Another Lie ]
[ But I Have Seen Her Pass By ]
[ Just To Say ( HI ) ]

[ That Was My Only Other Interaction ]
[ I Never Made Another Infraction ]

[ Now My Sole Effort Is With You ]
[ Because That Is The Only Thing That I Want To Do ]

[ There Will Not Be Any Other Females Crossing My Path ]
[ that Is Part Of My History ]
[ Because I Do Not Want To Experience Your Wrath ]

[ Like I Have In The Past ]
[ One Time Is Enough To Last ]

[ I Let You Down In The Biggest Way ]
[ I Never Wanted The Hurt In Your Heart To Stay ]

[ The Way That You Looked @ Me The Next Day, Made Me Wince ]
[ I’ve Had Horrible Dreams About That, Ever Since ]

[ I Know That I Can Never Erase What You Saw ]
[ & I Know That Ever Since That Day Your Nerves Have Been Raw ]

[ Will We Keep Moving On? ]
[ Or Is The Connection Gone? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(485)▪︎[ Why Do We Wake-Up? … 6•11•2021 ]

[ What Do We Really Wake Up For ]
[ Is There More In Life Than What Is Behind The Bedroom
     Door? ]

[ What Is It, Can It Be Exciting? ]
[ If It Isn’t ]
[ Will We Need To Start Fighting? ]
[ What If Some People Can’t ]
[ Keep Writing? ]

[ Fighting For What & With Whom? ]
[ Will It Be Worth Walking Out Of This Room? ]

[ If We Go Out Into The Living Room, Will We Find Something
     Living? ]
[ If We Do Not Acknowledge Them ]
[ Will They Be Very Forgiving? ]

[ Forgiving Is, As Forgivness Does ]
[ There Are A Whole Bunch Of People Out There That Won’t
     Forgive Others, Just Because ]

[ Some People Always Need A Carrot In Front Of Them Before
     They Pull Someone’s Cart ]
[ Those Are The One’s That Do Not Do That Out Of The Kindness
     Of Their Heart ]

[ About A ¼ Of Society Will ]
[ The Other 3/4 Would Never Pull Another Person’s Cart Up
     A Hill ]

[ But They Will Be The First To Pull Down Their Paper Thin Mask ]
[ & Ask ]

[ Will Ask For Help, Than They Will Be A Bother ]
[ The Language They Will Use, Would Surely Offend Their
     Mother ]

[ Society As A Whole Do Not Care For Each Other ]
[ It Seems To Have Become Really Easy ]
[ To Turn Their Back On Their Only Brother ]

[ Mother’s Kicking Their Children Out Of Their Lives ]
[ Not Even Making Amends While, Or Before, They Die ]

[ That Makes That Grudge Carry-On For An Eternity & A Day ]
[ They Get A Concord Jet Ride To Hell ]
[ While The Children Stay ]
[ That Should Not Sit Well ]
[ In Any Way ]

[ But It Does Happen ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]