(007)▪︎[ The Long Walk … 2024 ]

[ Can You Start To Heal By Taking A Long Walk? ]
[ Then You Don’t Have To Become, An Anonymous Outline In Chalk ]
[ On A City Sidewalk ]

[ There Are People, That Persevere ]
[ Because They Are The Ones, That Get In The Driver’s Seat, To Steer ]
[ Not Succumbing To The Demons ]
[ That Push Others Onto A Barstool, Drowning Their Sorrows, In Beer ]

[ (2) Vastly Different People, Who Have A Different Goal ]
[ One Wants To Once Again Become Whole ]
[ The Other Invited Satan Into Their Troubled World ]
[ Then Sold Their Soul ]

[ For What They Thought Would Be Some Sort Of Relief ]
[ Having The Belief]

[ That Since Alcohol Would Temporarily Make Them Numb ]
[ It Was Their Way Back To Normalcy ]
[ That Just Proved To Be An Extremely Dumb ]
[ Fallacy ]

[ They Never Learned, That Making It Back, To Getting Ahead ]
[ Takes Hard Work ]
[ Not By Making Alcohol, Their Cure All Med ]
[ Giving Them Permission, To Go Berserk ]
[ Then Sleeping For Days, In Their Bed ]

[ The Way Back, During Recovery ]
[ Can Be Filled ]
[ With Both Positive & Negative Discovery ]

[ Oftentimes, Not Knowing How Good You Have It In Your Life, Until It Is Yanked Away ]
[ Here Today ]

[ Then Gone The Next ]
[ Not Being Told In A Letter ]
[ Now Being Sent A (DEAR JOHN) Text ]

[ Right There In Front Of You, On Your Phone ]
[ Possibly Leaving You, All Alone ]
[ Your Future Plans, Being Blown, Up ]
[ Cutting You To The Bone ]

[ How Do You Start Back Up? ]
[ Or … Do You Just Give Up? ]

[ This Is A Make ]
[ Or ]
[ Break ]

[ Moment ]
[ Maybe, Not The Best Time, For A Sarcastic Comment ]

[ You Realize That This Will Be The Time, To Pull Up Your Big Boy Pants ]
[ Getting Off Of The Floor ]
[ Away From The Ants ]
[ To Walk Out The Front Door ]

[ You See The Darkness In The Distance ]
[ Sherpa Steps ]
[ You Have To Fight Against The Resistance ]

[ Do You Love Life & Hate It @ The Same Time ]
[ Looking @ Yourself In The Mirror ]
[ As You Drink From The Same Vine ]
[ Asking Yourself (WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?) ]

((•)) ▪︎▪︎ ▪︎○▪︎ ▪︎▪︎ ((•)) ▪︎▪︎ ▪︎○▪︎ ▪︎▪︎ ((•))

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] (酪)

((•)) ▪︎▪︎ ▪︎○▪︎ ▪︎▪︎ ((•)) ▪︎▪︎ ▪︎○▪︎ ▪︎▪︎ ((•))

(1216)▪︎[ My Friend Is Hurting … 2023 ]

[ Your Good Friend Is Really Hurting Right Now ]
[ You Want To Comfort Her ]
[ But You Don’t Exactly Know How ]

[ Maybe Her Life Feels Like It Is Going In Slow Motion ]
[ Or It Is Going Up & Down ]
[ Like Being In A Boat, Riding The Waves Of The Ocean ]

[ You Can’t Seem To Give Her Any Empathy ]
[ Because You Don’t Exactly Know How She Feels ]
[ You Don’t Want To Show Apathy ]
[ Because You Are Not The Cart That Lost It’s Wheels ]

[ The Wheels That Helped The Cart ]
[ Go ‘Round & ‘Round ]
[ Now It Feels Like Whenever She Gets Up To Start ]
[ It Grinds To A Halt In The Ground ]

[ She Feels Like She Lost Her Purpose In Life ]
[ For The Longest Time ]
[ Part Of Her Role Used To Be Being A Wife ]

[ She Is Not So Sure ]
[ That She Really Has A Role In Society ]
[ That Would Define Her ]

[ On One End ]
[ She Is A Stabilizing Mother & Grandmother ]
[ On The Other, She Is My Close Friend ]

[ You Have Always Needed ]
[ A Strong, Level Headed Force ]
[ & The Advice That Never Goes Unheeded ]
[ Helps To Keep You On Your Life’s Course ]

[ She Doesn’t Judge ]
[ You On What You Do ]
[ But Her Opinion Won’t Budge ]
[ After She Gives You A Clue ]

[ Sometimes She Would Give You A Look Of Concern ]
[ Instead ]
[ You Guess, Because She Might Have Thought That You Wouldn’t Learn ]
[ If She Slapped You Upside Your Head ]

[ Your Friendship With Her Began Before Your Marriage Even Thought Of Starting ]
[ She Did Not Hold Back Any Of The Words ]
[ She Wanted To Be Imparting ]

[ Your Friend Would Come To Your Rescue Whenever She Found ]
[ You Face Down ]
[ On The Ground ]
[ Floundering ]
[ All Around ]

[ She Never Stood Back ]
[ & Had A Laugh ]
[ She Never Verbally Attacked ]
[ She Did Not Ever Track All Of Your Failures On A Graph ]

[ Because There Would Be Quite A Few ]
[ Whenever She Hears That You Might Have Stumbled, She Would Think (WELL, THAT’s NOTHING NEW) ]

[ You Want Her To Know That When It Comes To You, Her Purpose In Life, Is Vast ]
[ When She Gives You Love, You Know That It Will Last ]
[ This Friendship Continues To Be Part Of Your Future ]
[ Not Just A Part Of Your Past ]

[ Everyday ]
[ You Realize That There Is No Way ]
[ That You Can Take All Of The Pain That She Has ]
[ Away ]

[ You Know That You Don’t Have The Power ]
[ To Make Her Pain Go Away For A Single Minute ]
[ Or For An Hour ]

[ You Thank The Big Guy That Resides Way Up Above ]
[ The Biggest & Best Thing ]
[ That You Can Do For Your Friend, Is To Shower Her With Your Undying Love ]

[ The Least Thing That You Can Do ]
[ Is To Tell Her How Much She Means To You ]

[ Well … Maybe You Just Did ]

[ I Love You Lots, Rita ]

((•)) ▪︎▪︎ ○ ▪︎▪︎ ((●)) ▪︎▪︎ ○ ▪︎▪︎ ((•))

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] (🤙)

((•)) ▪︎▪︎ ○ ▪︎▪︎ ((●)) ▪︎▪︎ ○ ▪︎▪︎ ((•))

(1197)▪︎[ Too Late? … 2023 ]

[ Life Is Way Too Short, To Wait ]
[ For What? ]
[ The Ascension,To That Pearly Gate? ]
[ Well, But ]
[ That Would Be, A Little Late!

[ It Is Not ]
[ A Taunt ]
[ Time Will Run Out, Sooner Than You Want ]

[ Sit Down & Call A Friend ]
[ Be Crazy When You Go To Bed ]
[ Pick-Up Your Pillow & Favorite Blanket ]
[ Go To Sleep On The Other End ]

[ What Are You Waiting For? ]
[ Watching Your Investments ]
[ Because You Hope That They Are Worth More? ]

[ Go Through Any Collections & Find A Way ]
[ To Put Them On EBay ]

[ Is The Market Going To Fluctuate That Much? ]
[ Take A Chance ]
[ & Sell Such & Such ]

[ If You Are Waiting To Will All Of This ]
[ To Your Kids? ]
[ Make Sure You Give Them Inventory Lists ]
[ If They Plan On Selling It All, What Should Be Appropriate Bids? ]

[ Tell Your Wife, That She Is The Prettiest Girl Out There ]
[ If You Want To Tell People, That You Care ]
[ Please, Get On The Phone & Share ]

[ You Have Been To More Funerals, In The Last (2) Months, Than You Have, In The Past (10) Years ]
[ That Produced, Way Too Many Tears ]

[ You Were There To Watch A Close Friend Bury A Grandson ]
[ You Were There For Your BFF @ Her Husband’s Funeral ]
[ It Was Not Fun ]
[ To Get The Phone Call ]
[ About Either One ]

[ You Wish, That Your Mind, Would Quit ]
[ With The Guilt ]

[ Every Night, Thank The Guy, Up High Above ]
[ For Letting You Have, One More Day ]
[ With All Of The People, That You Love ]

[ What Causes, A Big Problem ]
[ Is When You DON’t, Tell Them! ]

[ People Can Go, Really Fast ]
[ Time Will Fly, Right Past ]

[ Most Days, You Usually Only Get One Shot ]
[ To Tell Them That You Love Them, Alot ]

[ Kids, Don’t Slow Down ]
[ The Mrs. Could Be Going Shopping, In Town ]

[ Sometimes You Don’t Get, A Second Chance, To Say (GOODBYE) ]
[ This, Is Not A Lie ]
[ Someday, You Might Be Standing There, Asking Yourself (WHY?) ]
[ (DID THEY HAVE TO DIE?) ]

[ Don’t Bypass Your Chance ]
[ To Take Your Best Girl ]
[ To The Dance! ]

((•)) ▪︎▪︎ ○ ▪︎▪︎ ((●)) ▪︎▪︎ ○ ▪︎▪︎ ((•))

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] (酪)

((•)) ▪︎▪︎ ○ ▪︎▪︎ ((●)) ▪︎▪︎ ○ ▪︎▪︎ ((•))

(1154)▪︎[ The Hole … 2023 ]

[ Where There Is Smoke ]
[ Does Not Mean That There Has To Be Fire ]
[ When You Say That You Are Broke ]
[ Does That Make You A Liar? ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Broke Could Mean Your Wallet Or Your Heart ]
[ Having No Money Is One Thing ]
[ The Other Could Tear You Apart ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Oftentimes You Can Break Down ]
[ Because The Stressers In Your Life ]
[ Have Pounded You Into The Ground ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ All That Is Around You, Is Darkness ]
[ You Have No Idea ]
[ How You Got Into This Huge Mess ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ You Feel That You Stepped Into This Deep Hole ]
[ & Lo & Behold ]
[ You Got Into A Situation Where You No Longer Knew Your Role ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ How Did You Know If You Were Supposed To Follow? ]
[ Or Be Called Upon To Lead? ]
[ Would Your Words Sound Hollow ]
[ If You Felt In Need? ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ In Need Of Support ]
[ Or To Be Guided ]
[ When You Are Out Of Eyesight Of The Fort ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ The Fort Is Your Guidance ]
[ It Has Been ]
[ Ever Since ]
[ Then ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Then, Was That One Of The Worst Days That You Have Ever Had ]
[ It Was Bad ]
[ Because This One Lady Told You That You Were Not Her Baby’s Dad ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ That Completely Took Away Your Watermelon Sugar High ]
[ Because You Always Thought That You Were Her Guy ]
[ Now That Dream Has Gone Bye Bye ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Why Did She Have To Tell You Like She Did? ]
[ You Always Believed ]
[ That You Were The Father Of Her Kid ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Now What Looks Like A Mess ]
[ Could Have Been Best ]
[ If She Would Have Kept That Secret Close To Her Chest ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Did She Have This Uncontrollable Urge ]
[ To Purge? ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ That Completely Blew Your Future Plans Right Out Of The Water ]
[ Set Them Up To Be Ripe For The Slaughter ]
[ Now Your Future Feels Like It Is On This Giant Teeter-Totter ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Going Up & Down, Only Staying Balanced ]
[ By The Other Side ]
[ & There Lies The Challenge ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Finding Something Of Equal Importance ]
[ Not Because Of It’s Performance ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ Mind Over Matter ]
[ But Only Under The Same Circumstances ]
[ Forget About All Of The Chatter ]
[ & The Distracting River Dancers ]
‐‐☆‐‐
[ It Is Not Clear ]
[ About Which Direction That You Should Go From Here ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] (酪)

(•) (•)
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(1121)▪︎[ How Will You Hope To Cope? … 2023 ]

[ How, Do You Wake ]
[ When You Use Sleeping, As A Coping Mechanism ]
[ Instead Of Looking For, Some Kind Of Medication, To Take? ]

[ When The Experts Say (YOU CAN’t BE HURT BY ANYONE) When You Dream ]
[ Ummm, (NO!) ]
[ People Can Work As A Team ]
[ So … ]
[ The Dreams/Nightmares, Can Make You Scream ]

[ Dreams Can Bend Around The Corners Of Time ]
[ Causing A Minor Memory ]
[ To Become Sublime ]

[ People Who Are Decades Apart In Your Past ]
[ Can Come Together ]
[ Even Though The Difference Of Time Is So Vast ]

[ An Event From When You Were A Teen ]
[ Could Be Happening Now ]
[ Without Any Wasted Time In-Between ]

[ How Did This Person Relate To That Person? ]
[ Or That One? ]
[ Or The (2023) Version? ]

[ Your Dreams Now Seem So Vivid & Life-Like ]
[ Messing With Your Mind ]
[ While Disrupting Your Psych ]

[ When You Finally Wake, You Find That You Are Not Doing So Well ]
[ Trying To Reassure Yourself That Things Are (OKAY) ]
[ Is A Very Hard Sell ]
[ But In A Way ]
[ If You Want To Talk About It, You Wouldn’t Know What To Tell ]

[ When You Wake, You See That Your Dream Did Not Make Any Sense ]
[ It Was Not Like You Were Looking For Greener Grass On Your Neighbor’s Side Of The Fence ]
[ It Was So Believable ]
[ You Woke Up Feeling Really Tense ]

[ But As You Try To Put Your Dream In Order ]
[ & She Is There ]
[ You Are Ignored By Her ]

[ That Does Not Make Sense @ All ]
[ She Is In Your Dream ]
[ But She Treats You Like A Wall? ]

[ Some Dreams Center On A Past Event ]
[ But Maybe Things Did Not Seem The Same Way That They Went ]
[ Maybe, That Was Not How It Was Meant ]

[ Dreams Can Go Whacky, In A Second ]
[ If People Are There ]
[ Was There A Purpose ]
[ For Them To Be Reckoned? ]

[ Why Does Your Dream Still Seem So Vivid, Once You Are Fully Awake? ]
[ Some Dreams, Make Your Heart Ache ]
[ Causing Your Hands To Shake ]

[ Going To Sleep To Escape The Problems Of Your Life ]
[ Might Sound Good ]
[ But In Reality, Can Cause More Strife ]

[ Than, Before You Closed Your Eyes ]
[ When You Are Searching For A Hiding Spot ]
[ The Decisions Made, Are Not Always That Wise ]

[ Trying To Cope This Way, Is Equivalent To Hiding Your Head Under A Rock ]
[ No One Will Talk ]
[ There Is No Watching The Clock ]

[ Nothing You Will See ]
[ Will Possibly Be ]
[ The Key ]

[ To Coping ]
[ But … ]
[ You Can Keep Hoping ]

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[(°)] [(°)]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] (酪)

[(°)] [(°)]
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(746)▪︎[ The Kind Of Words … 2023 ]

[ When I Look In Your Eyes ]
[ I Can See All Of The Lies ]
[ About You ]
[ & All Of Those Other Guys ]

[ Why Would You Tell Me That They Were Long Ago In Your Past ]
[ When In Fact ]
[ They Were During The Night Before Last ]

[ You Can No Longer Hide Behind Those Big Baby Blues ]
[ You No Longer Can Point Your Finger ]
[ @ Me & Accuse ]

[ I Should Be The Accuser ]
[ That I Am Sure ]
[ But Will I Succumb To The Vast Amount Of Peer Pressure? ]

[ You Have Nothing To Point @ On This End ]
[ Now The Wounds That You Caused ]
[ Will Never Mend ]

[ When Your Voice Said Those Words ]
[ They Were The Most Vile ]
[ That I Had Ever Heard ]

[ All Of Those Times That You Tried To Defend ]
[ Your Words Did Nothing But Offend ]

[ One After The Next ]
[ You Proved Your Guilt ]
[ Through Text After Text ]

[ Your Job Was Never Complete ]
[ Whenever You Tried To Delete ]

[ The Evidence @ Hand ]
[ Whenever Someone Got Close ]
[ You Packed Up & Ran ]
[ You Were Always The One That Chose ]
[ When & Where You Would Land ]

[ It Should Have Been The Choice Of The Ones That You Accused ]
[ Not The Ones That You Refused ]
[ Or Abused ]

[ So You Might Ask ]
[ What Will Be The Next Task? ]

[ Will The Request Be Forever Remembered? ]
[ Or Will It Feel Like You Had Just Been Dismembered? ]

[ A Part Of The Sum ]
[ Or A Part That Is Now Numb? ]
[ Should I Stay Mum? ]
[ If I Feel Like This Whole Situation Is Extremely Dumb? ]

[ Should I Instead Speak My Mind? ]
[ If I Find ]
[ The Kind ]
[ Of Words, Where I Can Unwind? ]

[ That Sounds Like Someone That Was Going Dakine ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(917)▪︎[ Cigna … 2023 ]

[ There Once Was A Health Insurance Company Called (CIGNA) ]
[ They Won’t Approve Anything That A Dr. Wants To Do, That Will Help Ya ]

[ They Won’t Approve Anything That Could Improve, Your Quality Of Life ]
[ But This Is Your Only Choice ]
[ Because It Is Through The Job Done, By Your Wife ]

[ They Were Asked If You Could Get Injections, For Your Back? ]
[ Everything Was Going Well ]
[ But It Was The Approval Of Cigna, That You Lacked ]

[ This Insurance Will Not Even Approve Your Sleep Med ]
[ Probably For The Last (10) Years ]
[ That Is The Medication That You Have Taken When You Wanted To Have Dreams In Your Head ]

[ The Med Burns All The Way To Your Gut ]
[ You Have To Be Careful AFTER Taking The Med ]
[ It It Is Such A Mind Changing Drug ]
[ It Could Knock You On Your Butt ]
[ If You Are Not Already In Your Bed ]

[ @ The Least, You Could Be Impaired ]
[ This Medication Should Never Be Shared ]

[ Usually, This Med Helps You Touch A Star ]
[ You Should Never Get In The Car ]
[ Of An Unknown Person Who Was Previously Getting Drunk In A Bar ]

[ This Cigna Insurance Company Does Not Have Your Best Intentions @ Heart ]
[ They Are Denying Procedures That Can Keep You From Falling Apart ]

[ These Huge Companies Only Look @ The Bottom Line ]
[ They Might Approve A Single Procedure ]
[ Then Deny The Next (9) ]

[ Not A Fair Balance ]
[ It Seems Like Everytime A Request Is Put In ]
[ The Insurance People Takes It As A Personal Challenge ]

[ To See Which Agent Can Give The Most (DENIALS) In A 30-Day Span ]
[ Maybe In Their World ]
[ Whomever Denies The Most, Is The Biggest Man? ]

[ They Do Not Realize That They Are Messing With People’s Lives ]
[ They Wouldn’t Know If & WhenThey Denied This Medication ]
[ It Would Cause A Breakout Of Hives? ]

[ This Insurace Is A Lame Duck ]
[ When It Comes To The Clients That Need It ]
[ Their Decisions Really Suck ]

[ I Don’t Know If Any Requests That My Doctor’s Have Sent In, Ever Got Approved ]
[ I Wish We Had A Choice ]
[ Because We Would Have Moved ]

[ Cigna Insurance Does Not Give A Rats Ass ]
[ About The Individual ]
[ That Shows Very Little Class ]
[ The Amount Of Claims That They Will Approve, Is Very Minimal ]

[ They Probably Think That What They Are Doing, Is The Best ]
[ I Wish That Every Man In The Agency Thinks That In Gest ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(1076)▪︎[ There Was This One Kid … 2023 ]

[ There Once Was This Young Kid ]
[ Who Stole A Bell Off Of Your Wife’s Desk ]
[ She Went To Him & Said (I KNOW WHAT YOU DID) ]
[ But She Did Not Hold Him In Check ]

[ First It Was From The Top ]
[ Since He Got Away With That ]
[ He Opened Up The Refrigerator & Had Plans To Steal Her Pop ]
[ Hoping Someday That She Would Let Him Pay Her Back ]

[ Then Came The Next Pay Day ]
[ He Wondered If He Could Pay Her Back In A Different Way ]

[ So The Idea He Chose ]
[ Was To Buy Her A Red Rose ]

[ She Did Not Think That What He Was Doing By Continually Going Into The Breakroom To Wash His Hands ]
[ Was The Same As Him Watching Her When She Stands ]

[ She Seems To Be Naive To The Fact ]
[ That When He Says That He Wants To Only Be Friends ]
[ It Is Just An Act ]

[ He Actually Wants To Add (WITH BENEFITS) To The End Of The Previous Statement ]
[ If She Was To Know This ]
[ Would She Know What It All Meant? ]

[ Lust Can Play Tricks On The Mind ]
[ The Antics He Is Doing ]
[ SheThought Was Only All Innocent & Kind ]

[ If & When This Infatuation Flies Too Close To The Sun ]
[ & Burns All That Is Involved ]
[ Will They Still Call Everything That Had Been Thought Of As Fun? ]

[ So Where Does She Go From Here? ]
[ The Answer Isn’t So Clear ]
[ Dear ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

(1046)▪︎[ Shout Out To Team SATURDAY … 2023 ]

[ So, Let Me See ]
[ How Do I Tell, My WW Family ]
[ What, They Mean To Me ]

[ How About Writing Them A Story ]
[ That I Hope, Will Not Come Across, As Being Too Boring ]

[ My Beautiful Wife Started Us Out On This Journey In The Year 2012 ]
[ She Had Talked About It, Maybe A Year Before This ]
[ But I Quickly Put That Idea On A Shelf ]

[ I Was So Unhealthy @ The Time ]
[ It Got So Bad ]
[ I Thought Losing Weight In My Late (40’s) Was Too Big Of A Mountain To Climb ]
[ That Kind Of Made Me Sad ]

[ So, Nicole Brought Up The Idea Again ]
[ This Time, I Asked (OKAY, WHEN?) ]
[ (WILL THIS BEGIN?) ]

[ We Picked A Time & A Day ]
[ When The Day Came ]
[ I Had No Idea, What I Would Weigh ]

[ Well, There Was No Reason To Suck In My Gut ]
[ When She Told Me, I Was Shocked, Because I Asked ]
[ (I WEIGHED WHAT?) ]

[ So, The Journey, Began ]
[ I Had To Convince Myself, That I Was Not Embarking On A Diet ]
[ I Was Told That It Is A Lifestyle Change, So @ First, I Wasn’t, The Biggest Fan ]

[ As I Was Learning The Ropes ]
[ I Started To Have Hope ]

[ I Began To Look Forward To The Saturday Meeting ]
[ I Found That The Scale Doesn’t Lie ]
[ Sometimes It Can Really Tell, What You Have Been Eating ]

[ It Wasn’t A Hard Sale ]
[ To Get Me Convinced ]
[ That WW Does Not Completely Focus On The Numbers That Show Up On The Scale ]

[ But, This Past Year We Took A Step Back, As A Cost Cutting Move ]
[ In A Short Period Of Time, We Fell, Out Of Our Groove ]

[ Then Nicole Received A Text, From A WW Friend ]
[ Well, What She Said ]
[ & What Nicole Read ]
[ Helped Us Bring Our Hiatus, To An End ]

[ We Really Missed Our, TEAM SATURDAY ]
[ We Missed The Comraderie ]
[ We Missed The Smiles & The Friendly Waves ]

[ It Is A Proven Fact That When People Of Like Minds Gather ]
[ Together ]

[ There Is More Success ]
[ When People See, Others Succeed ]
[ Then, They Trust The Process ]

[ If You Ever Think That It Doesn’t Matter, If You Are Here Or Not ]
[ I Am Putting You On The Spot ]

[ It Does ]
[ For Every Reason, That Starts With (BECAUSE) ]

[ Because Of This ]
[ & Because Of That ]
[ Let Me Check My List ]
[ To See Which (REASON) We Are @ ]

[ I Am So Lucky To Always Have My Wife, My Best Friend & My Biggest Advocate By My Side @ All Times ]
[ Plus, She Is A Captive Audience ]
[ Whenever I Want To Read, Out Loud, One Of My Latest Stories That Rhymes ]

[ It Is Extremely Hard To Do This On Your Own ]
[ Whenever You Come To A Meeting ]
[ You (ARE) Someone, That Is Not Alone ]

[ Mahalo, To Each & Every One Of You For Making Us Feel Welcomed, Like We Were Never Gone ]
[ The Feelings We Get By Coming Here ]
[ By Seeing You All ]
[ Could Never Be Bought Through Amazon ]
[ If You Don’t Believe Me, Give ‘Em A Call ]

[ & Amazon Sells Everything ]
[ But, Not This Feeling ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(358)▪︎[ My Job …2023】

[ The Sin Is Deep Inside Of Me ]
[ But I Have To Keep It Under Lock & Key ]

[ In My Nightmares The Man With No Name Put The Weapon In My Hand ]
[ That Helped Me Make It Easier ]
[ To Walk Outside & Kill That Abusive Man ]

[ That Used To Live Two Doors Down ]
[ In Another Apartment ]
[ But His Front Door Was Painted A Dirty Shade Of Brown ]

[ Every Night The Neighbors Could Hear The Violence ]
[ When The Children Were Allowed To Go To School ]
[ They Were Sworn To Silence ]

[ They Always Showed Up With Broken Bones & Bruises ]
[ The Younger Kids Always Showed Up With Small Contusions ]

[ Whenever The Authorities Would Question The Mom & Dad ]
[ The Mother Would Do All Of The Talking ]
[ When The Father Was Asked, He Always Said (I HAVE NOTHING TO ADD) ]

[ The (5) Children Rarely Played Outside ]
[ The Park Across The Street ]
[ Had Swings & A Slide ]

[ The Neighbors Hardly Ever Saw The Father Come & Go ]
[ His Occupation Was Never Known ]

[ He Left Home When Nobody Was Awake ]
[ Every Once In Awhile, There Would Be This Wonderful Smell, Coming From Their Open Window ]
[ That Showed How Good The Father Could Bake ]

[ That Seemed To Be The Only Positive Attribute ]
[ Of The Man ]
[ Whose Voice Was Always Mute ]

[ Being Noticed, Was Never His Intention ]
[ His Goal @ Work, Was Never Ascension ]

[ Nobody Knew His Wants, Not Even His Wife ]
[ Now, Because Of My Nightmares ]
[ It Has Been Left Up To Me To Shut Off His Light ]

[ Some People Think I Have Jumped On The Insane ]
[ Train ]
[ Because Something Must Have Changed ]
[ In My Brain ]

[ After Living (48) Years Being A Law Abiding Person ]
[ I Have Become The Silent, Angry & Homicidal Version ]

[ I Usually Wake In The Middle Of Most Nights ]
[ Starteled Awake By My Night Frights ]

[ That I Have ]
[ That Do Not Make Me Laugh ]

[ I Have Been A Vigilante For Way Too Many Years To Count ]
[ As The Bodies Mount ]
[ I Cannot Give A Total Amount ]

[ I Have Been Sworn To Silence By The Boss ]
[ If I Disappeared ]
[ Would Anyone Consider My Disappearance A Loss ]

[ Even Though Loneliness Has Been Very Hard ]
[ Having A Spouse & A Family Was Never In The Cards ]

[ Why, Would I Ever Put A Family In Danger ]
[ Only To Have Their Lives Taken From Them ]
[ In The Dark, By A Stranger ]

[ Whenever I Got A Note ]
[ I Remember, That I Was Never Asked How I Would Vote ]

[ I Usually Try To Move Near ]
[ So When I Am Seen Many Times Around Where He Lives ]
[ The Target Does Not Say (WHY ARE YOU HERE?) ]

[ Notes Like This, I Treasure ]
[ Because Of Who He Is & What He Does ]
[ Putting Him To Sleep, Is Purely My Pleasure ]

[ I Won’t Touch His Family, Because Of What He Has Already Put Them Through ]
[ I Want Them To Begin A New Life ]
[ While Eventually, He Will Be Known As Someone That They Never Knew ]
[ Maybe I Will Silently Slit His Throat Using My Favorite Knife ]
[ That Will Not Leave A Single Clue ]

[ I Stalk The Neighborhood While Under The Light Of The Moon ]
[ His Family Will Be Safe ]
[ Soon ]

[ You Might Wonder How I Can Decompress? ]
[ After Events Like This ]
[ I Talk With A Woman That Writes A Column For The (WASHINGTON PRESS) ]

[ While She Doesn’t Know My Identity ]
[ I Have Given Her Enough Facts That Were Verified ]
[ So Now She Knows My Murderous Trail History ]

[ Now I Wait For A Cue To Finish My Job ]
[ I Would Want To Tell His Family To NOT Sob ]

[ Once He Is Gone ]
[ I Hope His Wife & Family ]
[ Can Move On ]

[ Oh Look, He Is Walking @ Night, All By Himself ]
[ With Nobody Else ]

[ With Him ]
[ Could I Get Caught? ]
[ Chances Are Really Slim ]

[ Say Bye-Bye! ]

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~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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