[031]▪︎[ So It Seems .. 1•9•2022 ]

[ When You Are Worried About Your Close Friend It Seems
Like You Are Handcuffed Behind Your Back ]
[ You Are Left Very Vulnerable To An Attack ]

[ Not A Physical (1), But By Words From Someone Else ]
[ Then You Start To Not Believe In Yourself ]

[ Dr’s. Saying One Thing ]
[ & You Not Believing Anything ]

[ You Are Trying To Help, But You Don’t Know How ]
[ & The Answers Need To Be Figured Out, Now ]

[ Sometimes, On Some Subjects, You Do Not Have The Answer ]
[ Especially When You Are Trying To Help Your Best Friend,
Whose Insides Are Covered With Cancer ]

[ But Your Friend Seems To Be Pushing Away From You ]
[ & You Do Not Know What To Do ]

[ It Is Shifting Your Relationship It Seems ]
[ It Causes So Much Frustration ]
[ It Disrupts Your Dreams ]

[ & That Is Not Good ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[004]▪︎[ Good Fight … 1•2•2022 ]

[ So Year 2021 Has Come & Gone ]
[ & Society As A Whole Has Chosen To Move On ]

[ So Much For Unfulfilled Expectations ]
[ Sometimes Because Of Some Complications ]

[ & There Is Oh So Much Violence ]
[ Code Of The Streets ]
[ Is To Give Silence ]

[ Nobody Wants To Start Talking ]
[ If They Want To Have The Ability To Keep Walking ]

[ Motto On The Street Is (SNITCHES … )
[ (GET STITCHES) ]

[ So There Is Zero Percentage Of Incidents Being Solved ]
[ Because Nobody Can Afford To Get Involved ]

[ They Won’t Only Go After The Person, They Threaten To Go
After Their Families ]
[ So Now People Will Fear What They Can’t See ]

[ Nobody Can Afford To Talk ]
[ Especially When The Legal People Balk ]

[ Nobody Can Afford To Move ]
[ Even Though They Have Everything To Lose ]

[ Even Their Life ]
[ Or The Husband Or Wife ]

[ Say Goodnight ]
[ Keep Up The Good Fight ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[354]▪︎[ Brie P. … 5•17•2022 ]

[ There Is This Cute Couple That I Have Met ]
[ Brie Is My Caregiver ]
[ But I Have Not Met Alex, Yet ]

[ I Got Extremely Lucky ]
[ To Have Brie Assigned To Me ]

[ I Am Sure That She Is A Wanted Caregiver By All Of The Rest
Of Her Clients ]
[ I Want Her No Matter What Is Spent ]

[ She Is Entertaining From The Very Minute That She Steps
Inside My Door ]
[ Come 1000pm I Am Saying (I WANT MORE) ]

[ She Gives Me A Shower That Is Very Gentle & Slow ]
[ I Try To Educate Her On Stuff That She Does Not Know ]

[ Brie P. Is The Yin To Alex Lewis’s Yang ]
[ Neither (1) Was Ever In A Gang ]

[ When Brie Comes To My Door On Monday, I Know It Is Going
To Be A Fun (2) Days ]
[ Brie Can Make Me Laugh In So Many Different Ways ]

[ Sometimes The Joke Falls In My Lap ]
[ Then It Just Blows Away While I Take A Nap ]

[ When I Nap, Brie Watches Me Like A Hawk ]
[ She Watches My Moves To See Where They Are Going ]
[ She Listens To The Words When I Talk ]

[ She Does Not Chuckle @ Me While I Stand There In The
Shower ]
[ Sometimes A New Caregiver Can Turn You Into A Coward ]

[ A Bad Look Or A Bad Word ]
[ When Brie Showers Me That Is Not What I’ve Heard ]

[ When Sitting Watching T.V. With Brie I Don’t Feel Bored ]
[ Then @ 930 She Sweeps The Floors ]

[ A Conversation That We Had Several Days Ago Gave Me A
Whole Different Perspective On Pizza Rolls ]
[ If It Came From Someone Else ]
[ I Don’t Think I Would Believe What I Was Told ]

[ Words Like (COGNITIVE DISONENCE) Is What I Told Her ]
[ Then I Explained It, Until She Was Sure ]

[ I Have No Idea What The Future Holds ]
[ I Guess I Just Have To Go With The Roll ]

[ I Want Brie To Always Know ]
[ That She Is Always Welcomed In My Home ]

[ Alex Too ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[352]▪︎[ The Twinkle In My Eye … 5•16•2022 ]

[ You Are The Peanut Butter To My Grape Jelly ]
[ You Are The Laugh That Causes The Jiggle In My Belly ]

[ You Always Say (HELLO) ]
[ When Somebody Is Saying (GOODBYE) ]
[ When I Am Feeling Low ]
[ You Bring Me Pie ]

[ You Are The Macaroni To My Cheese ]
[ I Will Try To Give You The World ]
[ Even Before You Say Please ]

[ I Am The Tray, To Your Table ]
[ I Will Do Most Anything For You ]
[ When I Am Physically Able ]

[ You Are The Promise In A Ring ]
[ I Love Every Repetitive Parts ]
[ When You Sing ]

[ You Are The Rose To My Daisy ]
[ You Always Center Me ]
[ When I Am Acting Bat-Shit Crazy ]

[ Some How You Put Up With All Of My Collections ]
[ & I Am Glad That You Can Read My Stories ]
[ Then Help Me Make Corrections ]

[ You Are The Diet Dr. Pepper To My Coke ]
[ Your Money Management Keeps Us From Going Broke ]

[ You’re My Lemonade To Your Orange Juice ]
[ Whenever You Want A Hug Or Kiss ]
[ I Have No Excuse ]

[ To Not Pucker-Up & Open My Arms Wide ]
[ I Neither Lead Or Follow ]
[ Because I Want You By My Side ]

[ I Am The Banana In Your Banana Split ]
[ Neither One Hits ]
[ Nor Shovels Shit ]

[ You Are The Bubble To My Gum ]
[ You Are Always Quick With An Answer ]
[ Because Nobody Says That You Are Dumb ]

[ You Are The Tail That Wags This Dog ]
[ You Never Sit Around Being A Bump On A Log ]

[ You Are The Helium That Makes My Balloon Rise ]
[ You Never Hide Or Come In Disguise ]

[ I Stick My Chest Out & Walk Tall Everyday Of My Life ]
[ Because I Always Get A Little Twinkle In My Right Eye ]
[ When I Start Talking About You, My Wife ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(004)▪︎[ Good Fight … 1•2•2022 ]

[ So Year 2021 Has Come & Gone ]
[ & Society As A Whole Has Chosen To Move On ]

[ So Much For Unfulfilled Expectations ]
[ Sometimes Because Of Some Complications ]

[ & There Is Oh So Much Violence ]
[ Code Of The Streets ]
[ Is To Give Silence ]

[ Nobody Wants To Start Talking ]
[ If They Want To Have The Ability To Keep Walking ]

[ Motto On The Street Is (SNITCHES … )
[ (GET STITCHES) ]

[ So There Is Zero Percentage Of Incidents Being Solved ]
[ Because Nobody Can Afford To Get Involved ]

[ They Won’t Only Go After The Person, They Threaten To Go
After Their Families ]
[ So Now People Will Fear What They Can’t See ]

[ Nobody Can Afford To Talk ]
[ Especially When The Legal People Balk ]

[ Nobody Can Afford To Move ]
[ Even Though They Have Everything To Lose ]

[ Even Their Life ]
[ Or The Husband Or Wife ]

[ Say Goodnight ]
[ Keep Up The Good Fight ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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[ 003 ]▪︎[ Go Indeed … 1•1•2022 ]

[ Well Once Again It Is Time To Start Anew ]
[ You Look Out @ The Stars ]
[ & Wonder What Will Happen In This Next Year When The Sky
Turns Blue ]

[ Will It Be Filled With Good Times & Prosperity? ]
[ Or Will There Be A Discrepancy ]
[ When It Comes To The Lines Of Your Property? ]

[ Will Your Mind Be Filled With Negative Thoughts ]
[ Or Will You Have To Blend In With The Other Robots? ]

[ When You Are Feeling All Alone ]
[ Are Your Movements Being Checked On By A High Flying
Government Drone? ]

[ Why Are You Being Checked On? ]
[ You Thought That Once You Became An Adult ]
[ All Of The Adult Supervision Would Be Withdrawn ]

[ But It Has Not ]
[ & That Is Wearing On Your Thoughts ]

[ Why Is There The Need? ]
[ Is It Because Of Your Slow Speed? ]
[ Is It Because You Put Your Resume Out There On Indeed? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(001)▪︎[ New Beginnings … 1•1•2022 ]

[ When New Years Eve Starts To Be Later I Wonder If This
Is The End, Or The Start Of A New Year? ]
[ That Answer Has Never, Ever Been Very Clear ]

[ Kind Of Fuzzy Actually ]
[ Where Do I Go To Get This Factually? ]

[ Who Wants To Bring In The New Year Bent Over A Toilet? ]
[ That Would Be Nobody You Have Ever Met ]

[ This Is What You Would Call A Conundrum ]
[ Whoever Has The Answer, Remains Mum ]

[ You’d Like To Think That Is Not The End ]
[ It Is A New Start ]
[ Whatever Is Able To Mend ]
[ Might Be Somebody’s Broken Heart ]

[ Broken Down & Defeated ]
[ Their Bank Account Got Depleted ]

[ Nobody Wants To Start Out The New Year Broke ]
[ You’re Like That Wounded Bear ]
[ That Someone Just Poked ]

[ Everytime The Bear Tries ]
[ To Rise ]
[ He Always Gets Handed A Bad Surprise ]

[ Oh, Rent Is Due ]
[ & Their $1000 Car Payment Is Due, Too ]

[ Everyone Hopes For A New Beginning ]
[ & Then They Will Be Winning ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(110)▪︎[ It Worked This Time … 2•7•2022 ]

[ When I Get Down On Myself & Depressed, People Tell
Me To Reach For The Phone ]
[ Call Some Agency, With Employees Doing Their Job ]
[ Then Hope For A (GET HAPPY) From Some Person That I
Have Never Known ]

[ What Can A Stranger Do? ]
[ When They Have Never Met You? ]

[ They Don’t Know Your Personality Or Your Quirks ]
[ Does This Agency Hire Alot Of People Who Are Jerks? ]

[ I Would Talk To Him & He Would Say (GO AHEAD) ]
[ (WHO CARES WHO WILL FIND YOU WHEN YOU ARE DEAD?) ]

[ Someone Encouraging My Negative & Suicidal Thoughts ]
[ Wanting To Chat About My Nightmares & The Days When
I Would See Spots ]

[ How Much Training Do These Employees Have? ]
[ An Hour & A ½? ]

[ Not Including The Bathroom & Lunch Breaks ]
[ That An Employee Always Takes ]

[ Where & When Am I Going To Have Trust? ]
[ Do They Swear That They Won’t Tell Their Friends About Such
& Such ]

[ How Am I Going To Trust Someone That Gets Paid For
This Phone Call? ]
[ This Person Would Be As Vested In Me As My Bedroom Wall ]

[ How Would I Think That This Would Ever Work @ This Time? ]
[ Well, I Am Still Alive To Write This Rhyme ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(411)▪︎[ Where Will It Go? … 4•24•2020 ]

[ Are We @ The Beginning Of The End? ]
[ Or @ The End Of The Beginning? ]
[ It Is Anyone’s Guess Which Way This Virus Will
Bend ]

[ Will People Continue To Be Ill? ]
[ Will This Virus Continue To Kill? ]

[ What Should People Start Expecting? ]
[ But Has Society ]
[ Proved That It’s Worth Protecting? ]

[ Who Knows? ]
[ Who Is The One That Gives The Say So’s? ]

[ I Definitely Would Not Like The Visability ]
[ Of Having That Responsibility ]

[ Who Wants To Take That Responsibility On? ]
[ One Day You Are Here ]
[ The Next Day You’re Gone ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[408 ][ Don’t Be Hurtful … Ya Right … 4•23•2020 ]

[ Dr. Seuss Once Said (BE WHO YOU ARE & SAY WHAT YOU FEEL … ) ]
[ Some People Might Ask (SO … WHAT’s THE BIG DEAL?) ]
[ To Me That Says, To Just Be Real ]

[ Alot Of People Don’t Like Those Kinds Of People Because Of
The Words That They Might Say ]
[ Some Don’t Like The Truth To Be Told To Them Right Now ]
[ Or Any Day ]
[ But The Truth Shouldn’t Be Said In A Hurtful Way ]

[ In A Constructive Way, Yes ]
[ But A Hurtful Way Only Causes A Mess ]

[ There Are Some Lines That People Should Never Cross ]
[ Especially If The Goal ]
[ Was To Show Your Partner Who’s The Boss ]

[ Sometimes It Could Get Lonely @ The Top ]
[ (OH LOOK, A FRIEND!) You Might Say ]
[ But Then You See That It Was Just A Prop ]
[ That Was Put There By The Person That You Hurt Yesterday ]

[ You Can Still Be Real & Go By The Saying (IF YOU DON’t HAVE
SOMETHING NICE TO SAY, THEN DON’t SAY ANYTHING @ ALL) ]
[ Why Must People Be So Negative To People That Call? ]

[ They Took The Time To Call You Back ]
[ & Then What Do You Do The Whole Time? ]
[ But Go On The Attack ]

[ Being Honest & Being Hurtful Should Not Be Confused With Each
Other ]
[ Would You Say Those Words To Your Mother Or Brother? ]

[ Well You Might To A Sibling But Not To A Parent ]
[ That Could Be Disrespectful ]
[ & They May Not Know What You Meant ]

[ Or Meant What You Said ]
[ Just Don’t Let It Clog Up Your Head ]
[ @ Least This Is What I Take ]
[ From What I’ve Read ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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