(538)▪︎[ You Could … 6•3•2020 ]

[ You Could Laugh Or You Could Cry ]
[ But Things Stop Being Funny ]
[ When Someone Drips Water From Their Eye ]

[ You Never Want To Be The Cause Of A Tear ]
[ In Fact, You Don’t Want To Be Anywhere Near ]

[ You Don’t Want To Be Completely Gone ]
[ Because You Do Want To Be The One To Give ]
[ Them The Shoulder, They Can Lean On ]

[ Having That Shoulder, Is A Much Needed Thing ]
[ Sometimes, That’s All You Really Need To Bring ]

[ A Good Relationship Is When You Are Able To Go
Both Ways ]
[ Sometimes You Are The Rock ]
[ & Sometimes You Just Have One Of Those Days ]

[ You Need To Feel Secure With The Person You Go To ]
[ Sometimes They Don’t Even Need A Clue ]
[ They Are Just There On Cue ]
[ & Know, Exactly What To Do ]

[ It Needs To Be Communicated ]
[ That All Parties Are Dedicated ]

[ For The Same Cause ]
[ Without Taking A Pause ]

[ There Is Fun & There Is Sadness ]
[ When You Find The Right One ]
[ You Are Usually Sad Less ]

[ There Is No Such Thing As The Highly, Sought After Marital Bliss ]
[ Every Couple Has Bumps & Curves In The Road ]
[ But Being Single Is The One Thing You Shouldn’t Miss ]

[ Being Married Will Be The Hardest Job You Will Ever, Ever Have ]
[ With A Good Partner ]
[ Your Problems Could Be Cut In Half ]

[ When You Get To The Point Where You Have Two Brains
Thinking As One ]
[ That’s When You Start To Really Have Fun ]
[ & Then No One Wants To Run ]

[ For Almost 25 Years Of My Life ]
[ I Have Been Married ]
[ To A Very Loving Wife ]

[ My Wish For All That Can Read This & Understand ]
[ Is, I Hope YOU Can Find Your Woman Or Man ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(530)▪︎[ How Things Can Get Complicated … 6•1•2020 ]

[ How Does One Live ]
[ Without Pain? ]
[ How Does One Give ]
[ When There Is Nothing Out There To Gain? ]

[ Must Life Get Complicated ]
[ When Love Is Not Reciprocated? ]

[ Reciprocity Is Not How Most People Will Live
Their Life ]
[ Most Don’t Have That Bond ]
[ Like There Is Between A Husband & Wife ]

[ How Does A Couple Get To That Point ]
[ Without One, Or Both ]
[ Getting Bent All Out Of Joint ]

[ When Voices Rise ]
[ & Tempers Flare ]
[ Does It Come As A Big Surprise ]
[ When One Stops ]
[ Because They Care ]
[ & When They Open Their Eyes ]
[ They Don’t Just Sit There & Stare ]

[ That’s When You Throw Off The Gloves ]
[ Of Anger ]
[ & Take Love ]
[ Off Of The Hanger ]

[ & Put It On Like A Coat ]
[ Wear It In The Car ]
[ & Wear It On Your Boat ]

[ & Through Every Sneeze ]
[ Or Cough ]
[ Please ]
[ Don’t Ever Take It Off ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(398)•[ Doing What’s Best … 4•21•2020 ]

[ It Seems That As I Get Older ]
[ The More I Feel ]
[ Like I Was Run Over By A 2-Ton Boulder ]

[ But Then When I Get Home ]
[ I’m Never Thrown A Bone ]
[ I Could Have Got There Over An Hour Ago ]
[ & It Would Have Never Been Known ]

[ Talk About Such A Blow ]
[ To My Ego ]
(HONEY, I’ve BEEN HOME AN HOUR NOW!) ]
[ & She Says, (REALLY, WOW) ]

[ That Does Not Feel Good In The Least ]
[ Oh, If I Only Had A Car ]
[ I Would Definitely Leave & Head East ]

[ It Is Not Best ]
[ For Me ]
[ To Stay In The Northwest ]

[ So I’ll Just Stop By ]
[ To Say A Quick Good-Bye ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(311)▪︎[ Thank You, Sort Of … 3•26•2020 ]

[ How Do I Thank The Woman Who Has Been My Rock
For The Last 26 Years? ]
[ Is There Any Way That I Can Thank Her For Having
The Shoulder That I Leaned On When I Faced My
Fears? ]

[ I’ve Been With This Beautiful, Patient, Understanding
Woman For Almost Half Of My Life ]
[ I’ve Been Smiling Ever Since She Said (I DO) ]
[ & Became My Wife ]

[ I’m Sure Many Times Since Then, She’s Asked Herself
(I DID WHAT?) ]
[ Those Are The Questions That I Don’t Answer ]
[ So I Choose To Keep My Mouth Shut! ]

[ She Has Been There Through Thick & Thin ]
[ She Was There To Say (IT’s OKAY) ]
[ @ My Lifting Competitions That I Didn’t Win ]

[ She Would Make Me Feel Like I Was One Of Those
Winning Guys ]
[ In Her Eyes ]

[ She’s So Supportive & Has Been A Wonderful
Mother ]
[ She’s Helped Me Through The Dark Times ]
[ Like The Recent Death Of My Brother ]

[ I Know She’s Not Perfect, But She’s Darn Near ]
[ Life Would Be So Empty ]
[ If She Wasn’t Here ]

[ Her Being Here Is Not Something That I Take For Granted ]
[ During This Time I Feel That I Have Do Everything
That Was Demanded ]

[ But I’m Ending This Right Here ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(316)▪︎[ No, It’s Not My Fault … 3•28•2020 ]

[ No, This Will Not Be Called ]
[ My Fault ]

[ Okay, Which One Of You (3), Left Me Alone? ]
[ Who Was The First To Shut Up? ]
[ Or Change Their Tone? ]

[ If & When ]
[ Did Either One Of You Just Left Me Alone, Then? ]
[ & Would Had Been ]

[ The [3) Of You Get Together ]
[ & Gang Up On Me ]
[ Everytime, No Matter The Weather ]

[ The Weather Outside ]
[ & Whether It Is Working Inside ]

[ What Was The One Thing, That I Wanted? ]
[ Did That Happen? ]
[ Or Was I Just & Completely Taunted? ]

[ Did You All Find, That What You Were Doing, Did Not
Work? ]
[ It Just Helped, To ]
[ Turn Me Into More Of A Jerk? ]

[ When I’m In That Mode, I Can’t Calm Down ]
[ Especially, When I’m Being Treated Like A Clown ]

[ Why Couldn’t Either One Of You, Just Stopped & Walked Away? ]
[ Why Did All Of You Feel ]
[ That You Had To Keep Attacking Me, In That Way? ]

[ What Has Worked Best In The Past? ]
[ It Was When You Tried Your Best ]
[ To Not Make The Argument Last ]

[ But Neither One Of You Did That ]
[ You Stayed In The Mode Of (ATTACK) ]
[ That Sure Made Me Take A Step Back ]

[ Or Was That The Intention All Along ]
[ Well Then, What I Thought Was Wrong ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(310)▪︎[ Self What? … 3•26•2020 ]

[ Voluntary Isolating Is Now What Needs To Be Done ]
[ Being Confined To What Each Of Us Calls Home ]
[ For So Long, Has Lost It’s Fun ]

[ But Self-Quarentine Is A Must ]
[ Now ]
[ Is This Just? ]
[ How? ]

[ Physical Contact Is Not The Thing ]
[ The Virus & Getting Sick Is What It May Bring ]
[ I Guess I Could Stand In The Shower & Sing ]

[ It Just Doesn’t Sound The Same Than It Does On
The Radio Or T.V. ]
[ No ]
[ I Choose Not To Do That To My Family ]

[ Torture Is What It Would Do ]
[ You Definitely Wouldn’t Want Me To Sing To You ]

[ If You Could Hear ]
[ Me Clear ]
[ It Would Instantly Hurt Your Ears ]

[ So I Don’t ]
[ & I Won’t ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(302)▪︎[ Social Distancing … 3•24•2020 ]

[ They Say That Because Of COVID-19 We All Should Be
Practicing ]
[ Social Distancing ]

[ Now We Are Wary Of Our Neighbors ]
[ As Well As Strangers ]

[ The Saying (REACH OUT & TOUCH SOMEONE) ]
[ Has Been Put Away ]
[ & The Practice Is Done ]

[ Our Parents Are In The Category Of Susceptibility ]
[ So It’s Our Responsibility ]

[ To Guard Our Fathers & Mothers ]
[ From Us ]
[ & All Others ]

[ This Is A Situation Where We Have NEVER Been ]
[ Will The Virus Slow Down? ]
[ Not One Expert Knows When ]

[ Well Now It Will Hit Any Child, Woman Or Man ]
[ Yes Virginia, The Shit Has Really Hit The Fan ]

[ & To Think Our Government Knew About This
Horrendous Virus More Than Two Months Ago! ]
[ Talk About Reacting Really Slow! ]

[ Could This Pandemic Have Been Prevented? ]
[ Will The Right Preventive Medicine ]
[ Ever Be Invented? ]

[ The Experts Say That We’re @ War & We Must
Engage ]
[ But What The Senate Morons Are NOT Doing ]
[ Causes Me To Rage ]
[ When The Hospitals Are Seeing Red ]
[ The Senators Say It’s Beige ]

[ The Politicians Were Voted In By Us To Do What’s
Best For Us ]
[ When It Comes To That For The Senators ]
[ Morality Left Washington D.C. Years Ago On A Greyhound Bus ]

[ It’s Like They Left For A Snack ]
[ Just To Check On Who Is Paying Them ]
[ To Turn Their Back ]

[ I Show Such Distain ]
[ That Politicians Can Refrain ]
[ From Doing Something Sane ]
[ Unless They Are On The Positive Side ]
[ Of Whomever Can Make It Rain ]

[ This Should Not Be About Politics ]
[ It Should Be About Preventing More People ]
[ From Getting Sick ]

[ & Healing Those That Already Are ]
[ Near & Far ]

[ Trump Is Gearing Up To Open Everything Back Up By
The Easter Holiday ]
[ How & In What Way ]
[ Did He Come Up With That Day? ]

[ By Listening To The Experts, I Can Say Without
Blinking ]
[ That’s Awfully Wishful Thinking ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(075)▪︎[ Shock … 1•25•2022 ]

[ The Shock Is Spreading All Over The Town ]
[ Did You Hear That The London Bridge Was Falling Down? ]

[ From What You Can See ]
[ You Wonder How That Could Be? ]

[ When Good Men Do Nothing ]
[ Does That Mean Something? ]

[ Does That There Cause Evil To Come? ]
[ Or Is That What Good Men Run From? ]

[ Evil Can Come In All Shapes & Sizes ]
[ Some Might Be An Obvious Sight ]
[ While Others Might Hide Behind Disguises ]

[ The Obvious Ones Are The Hardest To Figure Out ]
[ Does It Give You Over Confidence ]
[ Or Does It Give You Doubt? ]

[ A Sheep In Wolfs Clothing Perhaps ]
[ Some May Be Wide Awake ]
[ While Others Are Caught Taking Naps ]

[ When They Are Caught, It Is Up To Their Neck ]
[ After The Brawl ]
[ You See Barely A Speck ]

[ They Should Travel In Packs ]
[ Than If Needed ]
[ They Could Fight The Big Bad Wolf Back To Back ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(540)▪︎[ Empathy? Really? … 6•4•2020 ]

[ Empathy Can Be A Weird Thing ]
[ Experience About The Situation ]
[ Is All You Need To Bring ]

[ To The Table ]
[ If You Are Able ]

[ If You Can’t, Then Don’t Try ]
[ Because You Don’t Want To Lie ]
[ To The Girl Or Guy ]

[ If You Lie About Your Situation, It Just Makes The
Situation Worse ]
[ & When That Happens ]
[ Your Help, Turns Into Their Curse ]

[ It Then Becomes Clear ]
[ Of What You Now Have Here ]
[ You Have The Many Years ]
[ Of Bad Luck, As If You Cracked A Mirror ]

[ 7 Short Years Would Be A Blessing ]
[ As Years Fly By ]
[ They Find That They Are Seriously Still Stressing ]

[ Then That Messes With Their Head ]
[ & Then It Looks Like ]
[ You Should Have Given Them Sympathy Instead ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(499)▪︎[ The Last, Past … 12•4•2020 ]

[ The Past ]
[ Is What You Want To Leave Behind ]
[ But If You Think About What You Thought About Last ]
[ You Have To Think With Your Re-Mind ]

[ Remind Yourself Of What You Last Did ]
[ From Maybe Yesterday ]
[ But Not As Far Back As When You Were Being
A Kid ]

[ Memories Can Be Good, Or Bad ]
[ They Take You Back To When You Were Happy ]
[ Or Sad ]

[ Not All Memories Are About Good Times ]
[ Just Like ]
[ I Am Not Always Happy About All Of The Finished Rhymes ]

[ Time & Time Again, It Just Didn’t Sound Right ]
[ & When It Is Put In The Morning Light ]
[ I’m Not Always Happy With What I Write ]

[ I Am Not 100% Satisfied Everytime ]
[ Because I’ll Start Out Good ]
[ When I Begin A Rhyme ]

[ & Then It’s The Thought That I Lose ]
[ Sometimes It Is Because Of The Words ]
[ That I Choose ]

[ Most Of The Time Nothing Went Wrong ]
[ Because Of The Words That I Chose ]
[ The Thought Was Never Gone ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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