(396)▪︎[ Be Careful Of … 4•21•2020 ]

[ Sometimes People Will Hate You Just Because You Are
Being Real? ]
[ Maybe They Can’t Accept How The Truth Can Feel ]

[ Is It How You Play Your Part? ]
[ & The Truth Hurts Their Heart? ]

[ You Can Never Please Everyone ]
[ But Do Not Hurt Anyone Just For Fun ]

[ Just Go About Your Day ]
[ In The Only Way ]

[ That Pleases You ]
[ & Gives Your Friends & Loved Ones Their Due ]

[ Figure Out What Makes YOU Click ]
[ & Don’t Just Listen To The Clock Tik ]

[ Tok ]
[ As Time Walks ]

[ Right By ]
[ Without Saying { HI } ]
[ Or { GOODBYE } ]

[ & Then Before You Know It ]
[ Another Day Is Gone ]
[ While You Just Sit ]
[ Without Moving On ]

[ While You You Are Saying The Truth Can You Handle It
Yourself? ]
[ Will It Affect Your Health? ]

[ Sometimes The Truth Can Hurt ]
[ It Can Also Be How It’s Presented ]
[ That Could Blow Up Your Skirt ]

[ If The Truth Is Presented In A Friendly Tone ]
[ That In Itself Can Prevent ]
[ Your Skirt From Being Blown ]

[ Beware Of How You Give It ]
[ Or You May Not Like ]
[ How You Get It ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(382)▪︎[ Belief Or Faith Based? … 4•17•2020 ]

[ Faith Is Believing In Something You Just Can’t See ]
[ It Is Also A Belief ]
[ In What You Could Be ]

[ Does It Seem ]
[ Like One Big Dream? ]

[ Faith Is A Hope For Something In The Future To Happen ]
[ If It Comes True ]
[ Do You Wonder ( WHERE HAS THIS BEEN? ) ]

[ Do You Really Want To Pin Down An Exact Time? ]
[ If You Saw The Need ]
[ Would That Make It Sublime ]

[ Faith Is Having Confidence In Something In Your Mind ]
[ It’s Having Confidence ]
[ Of The Best Kind ]

[ Is It The Future That Made The Past The Present From The Past? ]
[ How Do You Make Ideas From Yesterday Last? ]

[ When You Have An Idea You Must Have Faith In Your Thoughts ]
[ You Can’t Think So Hard ]
[ Or You Will Begin To See Spots ]

[ Ideas About The Future Can Send Them Sky ]
[ High ]
[ Just Make Sure That You Are Not Telling Yourself Any Lies ]

[ Once You Bring Your Ideas Back Down To Earth ]
[ Put Them Into Action ]
[ To Show Their Worth ]
[ & Prove That You Are More Than A Fraction ]
[ Better Since Birth ]

[ So Try To See What You Can Hear ]
[ But Don’t Always Believe In All The Words ]
[ That Goes In Your Ears ]

[ Believe What You Have Faith In ]
[ & Have Faith In What You Believe ]
[ That’s When Your Mind Begins ]
[ To Get Any Kind Of Relief ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(378)▪︎[ Take An Inch, Then … 4•16•2020 ]

[ Let’s Take One Little Moment @ A Time ]
[ When Someone Offers To Give You Three Nickels ]
[ Don’t Ask For Three Dimes ]

[ Just Like When Someone Offers You An Inch ]
[ Don’t Take A Mile ]
[ Would It Take A Pinch ]
[ On The Cheek, To Make You Smile? ]

[ When Your Spouse Looks You In The Eyes ]
[ Do They Seem Vacant ]
[ Or Are They Bright & Wise? ]

[ You Always Want To Put Your Best Foot Forward ]
[ You Do Need To Know ]
[ Though ]
[ Where You’re Heading Toward ]

[ It’s Not Like You Need To Always Walk Towards The Bright ]
[ Lights ]
[ Sometimes You Just Might ]

[ Go Into The Tunnell That’s Dark ]
[ & Stand There & Park ]

[ Look Over Your Shoulder @ The Light ]
[ Then Lay Down & Say Goodnight ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(375)▪︎[ What We Do … 4•15•2020 ]

[ What We Do Now ]
[ Will Greatly Affect Our Tomorrow ]
[ We Don’t Want To Somehow ]
[ Turn The Next Day Into Sorrow ]

[ As We In Someway ]
[ Try To Protect Our Wealth ]
[ Throughout The Day ]
[ We Need To Take Care Of Our Health ]

[ Sorrow Can Come In Many Forms ]
[ & Be So Disruptive ]
[ It Can Change Our Norms ]

[ Is It A Constructive Way, Given Only To Help? ]
[ Is It Like Getting Positive Marks, On The
Next Entry OnYelp? ]

[ But Remarks Can Be Positive ]
[ Or Negative ]

[ I’ve Given Both ]
[ I’m Sure There Were Some People ]
[ Who Hated What I Wrote ]
[ So When They Can Complain ]
[ I’d Say ( WHAT EVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT ) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(453)▪︎[ All Bad? … 5•4•2020 ]

[ The Sun Now Sets ]
[ On A Day That Seemed To Be Filled With Unrest ]

[ What Happened When I Woke Up? ]
[ If I Would Had Known How The Day Was Going To End ]
[ I Would Had Just Wanted To Lie There With My Eyes Shut! ]

[ The Day Started Out Good, But Went Downhill From There ]
[ If My Head Was Not Already Bald ]
[ I Would Had Pulled Out Every Single Hair ]

[ It Seemed To Be One Thing After Another ]
[ If I Chose One Thing Of Two ]
[ I Would Find That I Should Had Picked The Other ]

[ & Another Thing That I Didn’t Know ]
[ Was, All Through That Day ]
[ I Was One Step Too Slow ]

[ Even @ The Start ]
[ My Horse Was Behind The Cart ]

[ The Cart Should Not Be In Front, Of Course ]
[ The Cart Should Be Pulled By The Horse ]

[ So I Had Everything Upside Down ]
[ Whenever I Took A Step Forward ]
[ I’d Find Myself On The Ground ]

[ How Could This Be? ]
[ Who Tripped Me? ]

[ Oh, I Did This To Myself? ]
[ This Was Not Done By Someone Else? ]

[ So That Was The Kind Of Day That I Had ]
[ Instead Of A Good Morning ]
[ The Whole Day Was Bad ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(452)▪︎[ Not Okay To Mourn … 5•4•2020 ]

[ Is It A Waste Of Time To Mourn? ]
[ Does It Continue To Bring Up The Reasons ]
[ That Has Your Heart Torn? ]

[ Over & Over You Have It Bouncing Around In Your Head ]
[ Would You Rather Feel The Pain ]
[ In Your Heart Instead? ]

[ Nobody Wants To Think About What That Pain You Have Is
All About ]
[ What If You Are Wrong? ]
[ & That Causes Doubt ]

[ If You Shout ]
[ It Out ]

[ Does Anybody Actually Hear A Single Word? ]
[ If They Did ]
[ What Have They Heard? ]

[ Will They Say? ]
[ Today? ]
[ Okay ]
[ But In What Way? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(416)▪︎[ See The Sea For Free … 4•25•2020 ].

[ The Sounds Of The Ocean Really Make Me Calm ]
[ Splashing Up On A Beach Lined With Trees Of Palm ]

[ It Is Such A Soothing Sound ]
[ That Helps Keep My Feet ]
[ Firmly Planted On The Ground ]
[ & Nothing Beats ]
[ The Sound Of Nobody Around ]

[ Watching & Being On The Ocean ]
[ Are Two Way Different Things ]
[ Being On The Water, Feeling The Motion ]
[ Sickness Is What It Brings ]

[ I Can’t See The End Of The Ocean, But I Know
It Is Out There ]
[ Somewhere ]

[ On The Other Side Of The World ]
[ Do The Women Have Dark Straight Hair ]
[ Or Blonde Strands Of Curls ]

[ Nobody Really Knows What All Lives Way Down Deep In
The Water ]
[ On The Other Side Of The Ocean ]
[ Is The Sun Any Hotter? ]

[ I’ll Never Truly Know What’s On That Other Side ]
[ I Thought Someone Told Me Something Years Ago ]
[ But I Think They Lied ]

[ What They Said, Sounded To Be Too Unbelievably True ]
[ I Do Love It When I Hear That The Water Is A Dark Blue ]

[ The Sounds, The Smell & The Sand ]
[ When You See The Never Ending Water ]
[ You Know That This Was Made by God’s Hand ]

[ It’s So Peaceful On the Sand When You Go For A Long Long Walk ]
[ If Anyone Dares To Go With You ]
[ Politely TELL Them { PLEASE DON’t TALK! } ]

[ Clearing My Mind Is What The Sounds Of The Ocean Does ]
[ The Reason To Go Is So Simple ]
[ I Go … Just Because ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(389)▪︎[ Regrets … 4•19•2020 ]

[ Whenever My Brother Brent Called, I’d Ask
( HEY BRENT ) ]
[ ( HOW HAVE YOU BEEN? ) ]
[ Ever Since He Passed ]
[ I Can Never Ask That Again ]

[ He Has Gone & Now Is Pain Free ]
[ For That I Smile With Glee ]
[ Now It’s Just Grief, For Me ]

[ No This Is Not A Pity Party I’m Throwing For Myself ]
[ I Leave Those ]
[ For Someone Else ]

[ I Have A Hole ]
[ In My Soul ]
[ Where When He Was Here ]
[ I Felt Whole ]

[ Once We Met I Felt That I Found My Twin ]
[ We Never Argued ]
[ Because Neither One Of Us Would Win ]

[ I Admired So Much About Him, Too ]
[ But Now I’m Blue ]

[ The Saying ( IF YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE SOMEONE FLOWERS
MAKE SURE THEY ARE AROUND TO RECEIVE THEM ) Is Spot On ]
[ Same Goes For Kind Words ]
[ Don’t Wait Until They Are Gone ]

[ Admitting That You Are Wrong ]
[ Does Not Mean You Are Not Strong ]

[ You Are Not A Disgrace ]
[ If You Apologize To Someone’s Face ]
[ Always Make Sure It’s The Right Time ]
[ & The Right Place ]

[ But When It Comes To My Brother, I Bet ]
[ It’s Going To Take Me Years ]
[ To Get ]
[ Over My Regrets ]

[ Just A Little Piece Of Advice ]
[ Don’t Think Twice ]
[ About Doing Or Saying Something Nice ]

[ To The One’s You Care About ]
[ Don’t Leave A Shred Of Doubt ]

[ & Give It Your All ]
[ When You Give Them A Call ]

[ Should I Have Been There … I Don’t Know ]
[ Who Is The One That Sits Down & Says So? ]

[ So, This Note I Will Send ]
[ To My Brother & Friend ]
[ ( I LOVED YOU TO THE VERY END ) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(384)▪︎[ Death & Taxes … 4•17•2020 ]

[ Life Can Be So Fleeting ]
[ & For Those Left Behind ]
[ So Defeating ]

[ Death & Taxes Are The Only Sure Things In Life They
Say ]
[ & When Your Time Is Up ]
[ There Will Not Be Another Day ]

[ Tik-Tok, Tic-Tok ]
[ Goes The Life Expectancy Clock ]

[ Just Like A Heart Attack ]
[ There’s No Going Back ]

[ You Can’t Expand The Given 24 Hours ]
[ No One Can Do That ]
[ No One Has Any Of Those Powers ]

[ You Can’t Avoid Taxes Or Death ]
[ You Can Hasten The Journey ]
[ By Shooting & Smoking Meth ]

[ There’s No Way In Hell That Will Happen To Me ]
[ I’m Just Trying To Be Who I Think I Should Be ]

[ But Who Or What Is That? ]
[ I Just Want To Take A Good Swing ]
[ When It’s My Turn Up To Bat ]

[ See The Ball, Take A Step Toward Your Goal & Swing ]
[ & Give It All That You Can Bring ]

[ Just Try, Try, Try ]
[ & Don’t Settle On Just Getting By ]

[ But If You Get The Feeling That You Are Going To The Ground ]
[ Don’t Reach Out ]
[ To Pull Others Down ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(465)▪︎[ Words Can Hurt … 6•2•2021 ]

[ Anger Seems To Be A Constant Part In My Life ]
[ Be It @ Me ]
[ Or From Me ]
[ Affecting My Son Or My Wife ]

[ Names Can Be Called Or Felt ]
[ It Can Feel Like ]
[ The Tightening Of A Belt ]

[ & If You Check ]
[ It Would Be Around My Neck ]

[ Either Way, It Hurts ]
[ Easy To Feel & Give ]
[ As If It Is Pulling @ My Shirt ]

[ Anger Can Tear Couples & Families Apart ]
[ Some Angry Comments ]
[ Are Meant To Pierce My Heart ]

[ Or Are They Meant? ]
[ To Stay In The Head ]
[ Instead? ]

[ Either Reason Or Way ]
[ Piercing Words ]
[ Find A Way To Stay ]
[ & Be Heard ]

[ Ping Ponging Back & Forth ]
[ Heading South ]
[ Then Heading North ]

[ Which Direction Does It Hurt The Most ]
[ Hardening The Heart, Like A Piece Of Burnt Toast ]

[ Not Just Crunchy Around The Edges ]
[ But It Won’t Leave Me Teetering On Any Ledges ]

[ When Can I Look Around? ]
[ To Find Solid Ground? ]

[ Instead Of Living On My Seat ]
[ I Want To Finish Life Standing On My Own Two Feet ]

[ Is That Dream On ]
[ The Nearest Horizon ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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