[59][ Paris, France … 1•16•2020 ]

[ When I Was Sittin’ In The Park In Paris France ]
[ The Music In My Head ]
[ Made Me Want To Stand Up & Dance ]
[ But Instead ]
[ I Got Cold Feet & Didn’t Want To Take A Chance ]

[ A Chance Of Embarrassing Myself ]
[ @ The Time ]
[ I Couldn’t Think Of Anything Else ]

[ Dance Without Music Playing Out Loud ]
[ What If I Looked So Silly ]
[ I Drew A Crowd? ]

[ Oh How Embarrassing That Could Be ]
[ For Me ]
[ I’d Probably Shrink To Knees ]
[ & Crawl To The Sea ]

[ Then I’d Want To Be Unrecognizable ]
[ Not Desirable ]

[ I Would Have Really Liked To Have Gathered Up All Of
My Hodge Podge ]
[ & Taken The First Amtrak Train Out Of Dodge ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[057][ Don’t … Or Won’t … 1•15•2

[ Help Me Up When I Fall ]
[ Answer The Phone When I Call ]

[ Be Excited To Think About What’s Next ]
[ Answer Me In A Timely Manner, When I Text ]

[ Be Quick ]
[ To Help Me When I’m Sick ]

[ When I’m Waiting For You @ The Door ]
[ Come Running Across The Floor ]

[ Please Don’t Make A Peep ]
[ When I’ve Finally Gone Into A Deep ]
[ Sleep ]

[ Don’t Blatantly Watch The Clock ]
[ When We’re Finally Able To Sit Down & Talk ]

[ You Can Never Go Wrong ]
[ When You Take A Little Time Out Of Your Day ]
[ To Sing Me A Song ]

[ I Thank The Big Man Above ]
[ For Giving You The Want & Ability To Show Me Your Love ]

[ Thank You God For Not Letting Me Be Done ]
[ When There Are Those Times ]
[ When Life Is No Fun ]

[ The Joy That It Brings ]
[ Comes Out When You Act Like A Kid ]
[ Playing On The Swings ]

[ Never Make Up An Excuse ]
[ When You Point The Finger & Accuse ]

[ Help Me Be The Man ]
[ That I Think I Can ]

[ Please Spend The Rest Of Your Life ]
[ Putting Forth The Effort To Be The Very Best Wife ]

[ I Try Every Night ]
[ To Be Your Guiding Light ]

[ Then During The Day ]
[ I’ll Make A Path To Show You The Way ]

[ I Have A Son, Not A Daughter ]
[ So Please Give Me The Strength ]
[ To Be A Loving, Understanding, Non-Judgmental Father ]

[ Don’t Push Our Love Off Of A Cliff ]
[ Just Because We Have A Rift ]

[ I Hope I Never Give You The Shaft ]
[ By Not Giving You An Oar ]
[ In Life’s Raft ]

[ Your Love ]
[ Covers My Heart ]
[ Like A Tight Fitting Glove ]

[ You Are Worth Every Dime ]
[ Of My Time ]

[ I Don’t Ever Want You To Run ]
[ When You’re Angry ]
[ & Think That We’re Done ]

[ You Never Needed A Book ]
[ To Teach You How To Cook ]

[ Always Think That Is The Norm ]
[ When I Want To Protect You ]
[ From An Incoming Storm ]

[ Never Think Of It Is A Joke ]
[ When It’s Cold Outside ]
[ & I Offer You My Coat ]

[ I Won’t Give A Hoot ]
[ If You Want To Go Out & Buy ]
[ A Brand New Pair Of Boots ]

[ I Always Feel That I’m Doing A Good Deed ]
[ When I Help Those In Need ]

[ During The Times That We Fight ]
[ I Don’t Ever Want To Lose Sight ]
[ Of What We Both Know Is Right ]

[ Please Help Me Show My Son ]
[ That He & I Are Not Done ]

[ You’ve Had My Heart ]
[ From The Very Start ]

[ I’ve Always Known That You Could ]
[ Once You Agreed That You Would ]

[ When We’re Apart ]
[ I Feel An Ache In My Heart ]
[ I’ve Tried To Do My Part ]
[ Since The Very Start ]

[ When You Used To Come Over & Talk For Hours Every Night ]
[ It Made My Outlook On The Next More Bright ]

[ Please Don’t Build A Fence ]
[ With A Long Silence ]

[ All Of The Time That I Spend With You, Is A Play ]
[ Day ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[ 41 ][ Don’t Take The Blame … 1•10•2020 ]

[ There’s Something About Intense Pain That Brings
Everything Into Focus ]
[ There’s No Magic Words Like (HOCUS POCUS) ]

[ That Doesn’t Make The Picture Any Clearer ]
[ I Guess That’s What Starts The Emotion, Called Fear ]

[ Fear Of The Unknown ]
[ Regret Because Of The Past Opportunities That Were
Blown ]
[ Were There Any Opportunities Shown? ]

[ Do You Believe That Things Can Seem Fine ]
[ Even Though Your Thinking Doesn’t Fall In Line? ]

[ With Those That Are All Around You @ The Time ]
[ Even Though Your Thinking Is Benign ]

[ Even Though Others Feel Like You’re A Cancer ]
[ They Really Don’t Know That You Have The Answers ]

[ Just Because You Don’t Think Like Them, Doesn’t
Make Your Thoughts Wrong ]
[ & Even If Your Explainations Are In Depth & Long ]
[ What You Say Makes Your Points Strong ]

[ So You Should Keep Marching To Your Own Beat ]
[ & Keep Moving Your Feet ]

[ Keep Holding Their Hand To That Open Flame ]
[ If You Didn’t Do It ]
[ Never Take The Blame ]
[ & Don’t Care One Bit ]
[ If You Don’t Feel Ashamed ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[ 46 ][ They Just Don’t … 1•12•2020 ]

[ People Don’t Change, Times Do ]
[ When You Have Food In Your Mouth ]
[ Can You Do Anything But Chew? ]

[ The World Can Chew You Up & Spit You Out ]
[ It Will Show You What Pain Is All About ]
[ You Can Shout ]
[ All You Want ]
[ & Pout ]
[ Until Your Face Looks Gaunt ]

[ When Your Body Runs Out Of Energy ]
[ & You Fall To Your Knees ]
[ How Will You Be? ]

[ Your Eyes Have Witnessed Quite Alot For Someone @
Your Young Age ]
[ Happiness, Sadness, Joy, Frustration ]
[ & An Awful Lot Of Rage ]
[ Sometimes You’ve Come Across People So Angry ]
[ You’d Think They Had Spent The Last Couple Of Years
Locked Up In A 10′ By 10′ Cage ]

[ But They Say That’s What Prison Can Do To A Guy ]
[ Especially When He Gets Convicted Of A Crime ]
[ That Makes Everybody Asks Each Other (WHY?) ]

[ Why Was He Convicted, Everyone Knows He Was Framed? ]
[ The Powers That Be Said That He Did It ]
[ & They Put Him Out There To Be Blamed ]
[ When He Was Put Into A Pit ]
[ Things For Him, Were Never The Same ]

[ When Society Put Him Into That Role ]
[ He Lost His Soul ]
[ He Was Put Into An Impossible Situation ]
[ Like Trying To Climb A Greased Pole ]

[ How Could He Do That Task? ]
[ He Definitely Could Not Do It Fast ]
[ Even When Asked ]

[ So How Do You Bring Someone Back ]
[ After They’ve Been Mentally Attacked? ]

[ Can Anyone Come Back & Be Like They Were? ]
[ That Is One Thing Where People Are Not So Sure ]

[ But They Try, Try, Try Their Best ]
[ Most Eventually Give Up ]
[ & Put Their Past Life To Rest ]

[ Then They Become A Shell Of The Person That They
Used To Be ]
[ & In Their Mind ]
[ Their Soul Will Never, Ever Be Totally Free ]

[ Give Up, Give In & Then Say Goodnight ]
[ All They Can Say ]
[ Is That They Have No More Fight ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[722]▪︎[ Stopping Life … 8•24•2020 ]

[ How Do You Stop Life From Getting The Best Of You? ]
[ Do You Just Lie Down ]
[ & Let Life Do What It Has Got To Do? ]

[ It Would Be Easier Than Putting Up A Fight ]
[ With Something That Is Not In Your Sight ]

[ Every Single Time That You Got Knocked Down ]
[ You Have To Rise ]
[ & Stand Up High On The Ground ]

[ Because Life Throws You Many Punches ]
[ A Queasy Feeling ]
[ Has Ruined Many Lunches ]

[ Through The Days, Weeks & Years ]
[ Life Causes The Shedding Of Many Tears ]
[ During Your Life, You Constantly Try To Face Your
Worst Fears ]

[ The Best Part Is That Your Eyes Are Now Open Wide ]
[ You Can Hold Your Head High ]
[ Knowing That You Never Did Run & Hide ]

[ So How Do You Survive? ]
[ How Do You Grow & Thrive? ]
[ How Do You Show Your Friends & Loved Ones That
You Are Very Much Alive ]

[ Fight The Good Fight Is What You Need To Do Now ]
[ But Don’t Be Impatient ]
[ To Try To Figure Out How ]

[ It Might Be Some Time Before The Answers Come By ]
[ Beware Of People That Always Lye ]
[ Don’t Be Too Quick To Demand For The Answer To
(WHY?) ]

[ Search The World Over & Find The Ones That Really
Care ]
[ Find The Ones That Has Always Been There ]
[ Then You Realize That Those Are The Ones With
Which You Share ]

[ Your New Life With The Ones That You Love ]
[ Show Everyone How You Have Risen Above ]

[ The Turmoil ]
[ & Reward Those Who Have Remained Loyal ]

[ There May Be Only A Few ]
[ More Than Two ]

[ The Number Does Not What Matters ]
[ You Want To Line Up The Doubts ]
[ & Watch Them Shatter ]

[ Keep Moving Along ]
[ Show Those Who Thought That You Were Never
Strong ]
[ The Best Part Of This Part ]
[ Is That You Prove Them All Wrong ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[716][ What Is Your Point? … 8•21•2020 ]

[ Sometimes It Doesn’t Matter Where You Come From ]
[ It Matters What You Are Made Of ]
[ & The Only Thing In Life That Does Not Make You
Feel Numb ]
[ Is When Someone Special Shows You Lots Of Love ]

[ Sometimes It Doesn’t Matter What Is In Your Past ]
[ But It Does Matter How Fast ]
[ You Are Creating Good Memories That Will Last ]

[ Your Past Experiences Has Molded You Into Who &
What You Are Today ]
[ It Doesn’t Always Matter What You Say ]
[ But It Does Matter How You Show Things In Your Own
Special Way ]

[ Shock People When They Think That When You Should Turn
Left You Turn Right ]
[ You May Not Have Got Your Point Across With What Was Said ]
[ It Is What You Write ]
[ That Gets Your Point Stuck Into Their Head ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[713]▪︎[ The Sword … 8•20•2020 ]

[ Sometimes Life Seems To Be A Double Edged Sword ]
[ There Seems To Be Times ]
[ When It Gets Hard To Remember What You Are Walking
Towards ]

[ One Little Slip & You Could Fall Off Of Your Path ]
[ One Day You Could Wake Up ]
[ & Find That You No Longer Can Do Simple Math ]

[ Does 2+2 Still Add Up To Four In Your Head? ]
[ You Are Pleasantly Surprised That You Are Not Always
Cloudy ]
[ Because Of Your Huge List Of Meds ]

[ You Take This Med Because Of That ]
[ You Take Another Med For This ]
[ There Has To Be One For The Pain In Your Back ]
[ On That Long List ]

[ If There Is Not One, There Should ]
[ If You Had A Prescription For One, You Could ]
[ If You Had One To Take, You Would ]

[ The Double Edged Sword Part Comes Into Play When
Something Happens That Is Seen As Being
Bittersweet ]
[ On One Hand Something May Fit In Your Life Nice &
Neat ]
[ But On The Other Side You Could Feel Like You Had Just Been Knocked
Off Of Your Feet ]
[ & The Good Feelings That You Were Just Having Now Has To
Take A Backseat ]

[ If A Really Good Friend Gave You News That Was Hard
To Take ]
[ Would The News Make ]
[ You Shake? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[123][ Not What I Wanted To Do … 4•6•2021 ]

[ Well Isn’t That Just Great ]
[ I Just Did Something That I Hate ]

[ I Just Hurt ]
[ Someone That Is So Important To Me ]
[ With My Written Words ]

[ My Words Usually Sing Out The Truth About What I
Want To Say ]
[ But This Did Not Happen Yesterday ]

[ They Came Across Strong ]
[ But Maybe The Explaination Was Way Too Long ]
[ So Then The Whole Meaning ]
[ Came Out All Wrong ]

[ When I’m Here ]
[ I Think I Explain Myself Well ]
[ But It Has Been Made Abundantly Clear ]
[ That My Message Went To Hell ]

[ Hurt Towards You Should Never Had Been There ]
[ What I Was Attempting To Say & Share ]
[ Is How Much I Miss You & Care ]

[ You Used To Be Here @ Least Two Days A Week, Sometimes
More ]
[ I Would Get SO Excited When I Heard Your Soft Knock On
My Door ]

[ Then I Knew You Were All Mine ]
[ Into The Night ]
[ Until @ Least Nine ]

[ But … Now You Are Not Here ]
[ & That Causes A Tear ]

[ & Then Another One ]
[ & Another One ]
[ I Find That Doing This Is Not Very Fun! ]

[ I Would Much Rather Give You A Big Long Hug ]
[ Then Pull Your Heart Out ]
[ To Give It A Tug ]

[ Hurting Is/Has/Was/Never On My Mind ]
[ When It Comes To You, Cavarona ]
[ I Am Not That Kind ]

[ Of Person Or Friend ]
[ I’ll Feel That Way To The Very End! ]

[ & I Will So Fight ]
[ For That Conclusion ]
[ To Not Be Anywhere In My Sight! ]
[ Especially After This Discussion ]
[ It Will Not Be Tonight! ]

[ You Are The Cavarona Clear To The Bone ]
[ That Is Shown ]
[ As Well As It’s Known ]

[ Whenever You Take A Trip To The Beach Like You Will & Do ]
[ You Can Look @ That Bag With The Lousy Emblem ]
[ & Know That I Was Thinking Of You When I Bought That For You ]

[ You Are So Missed ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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[1045][ Don’t Be Blind … 12•12•2020 ]

[ The Eyes Are Useless When The Mind Is Blind ]
[ They Can’t Help You See ]
[ That Your Actions @ The Moment Will Put You In
A Bind ]

[ A Closed Mind Will Never Let You Hear ]
[ When Something That Used To Be So Far Away Is
Now Near ]

[ When @ Times You Think That The World Stops @
The Tip Of Your Nose ]
[ You Will Find That That The Consequences You Get ]
[ May Be The Results Of The Choices That You Chose ]

[ On This Life Path That You Are Now Walking On ]
[ For If You Become Too Careless ]
[ You Could Wake Up One Morning & All That You Have
Grown To Love Is Now All Gone ]

[ Maybe @ The Fork In The Road In Your Life ]
[ You Quickly Went Left ]
[ When Everyone Else Went Right ]

[ It Is Not So Much That You Took The Easier Low
Road ]
[ But It Seemed @ Times ]
[ That You Made Everyone Around You See That You
Hardly Ever Pulled Your Whole Load ]

[ Society Is A Social Bunch ]
[ Always Loving Companionship For Dinner, Breakfast &
Lunch ]

[ A Possible Reason Why Society Is Bitter, Anti-Social &
Mean ]
[ May Be Because This Virus ]
[ Made Everybody Self Quarantine ]

[ Social Deprivation Can Have Very Harmful Effects]
[ It Can Cause Some People To Disrespect ]
[ Others That They Suspect ]

[ That May Have Contracted & Then Spreading This
‘VID19 Virus ]
[ That Is Harming & Killing Us ]

[ With A Closed Mind, So Goes Your Vision ]
[ A Closed Mind, Can Also Cause Division ]

[ Division Amongst The Family & Friends That Has
Always Stood By Your Side ]
[ You Also Will Find Out Who Has Constantly Lied ]

[ Lied, Because When The Water Gets Turbulent For
The Fair Weathered Friends They Are The First
To Bail ]
[ They Will No Longer Return Your Calls ]
[ Or Respond To Your Many Emails ]

[ They Will Look & Find ]
[ The Smallest Reasons ]
[ To Erase The Thoughts About You In Their Mind ]
[ & Then Become Devoid Of All Compassion ]
[ As They Leave You Behind ]

[ You Will Feel That Their Mind Has Shut Off & Shut
Down ]
[ So Where Once Your Eyes Saw Pretty Colors ]
[ All They See Now Is Grays & Browns ]

[ But Do Not Walk In Their Footsteps ]
[ & Then Do It To Others ]
[ Because You Know How It Feels To Be Left ]
[ By Your Mother & Brothers ]

[ A Closed Mind Prevents You From Growing
Throughout The Upcoming Days, Months & Years ]
[ It Is Not A Guarantee That A Closed Mind Prevents Tears ]

[ Open Your Mind, Eyes & Take The Headphones Off
Of Your Ears ]
[ & Your Head ]
[ Then Make A Stand To Listen To What Is Said Right
Here ]
[ Instead ]

[ Of Trying To Listen To What Is Going On Over There ]
[ For If It Involved You]
[ You Should Hope That They Would Share ]
[ It With You, Too ]

[ Don’t Say (NOPE) ]
[ & Jump Ship ]
[ Because You Felt There Was No Hope ]

[ Some People With A Closed Mind Will Stand There For
Awhile ]
[ & Give You Their Best Smile ]
[ All The While ]
[ Wondering What Is Going On Down The Road About A Mile ]

[ Then You Come To Realize Some Close Minded People
Never Intend To Change ]
[ They Feel That Would Be Doing Something Extremely
Strange ]

[ That Is When You Decide To Rearrange Your Priorities
& Make Better Use Of Your Effort & Time ]
[ If You Choose To Put One More Minute Into Them ]
[ That Would Be A Crime ]
[ Then You Can Turn Your Attention On Another
Mountain To Climb ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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[1019][ My Mind … 12•3•2020 ]

[ How Do I Get The Thoughts In My My Mind Off Of
My Mind? ]
[ Because There Are Many Many ]
[ Thoughts That Are Not Of the Most Positive
Kind ]

[ When I Don’t Use My (MAKE SENSE) Filter ]
[ My Whole Thinking Gets Off Kilter ]

[ I Just Want All Of These Negative Thoughts That
Are Swirling Around In My Brain ]
[ To Quickly Find Their Way To The Most Direct Path
Down The Drain ]

[ But One Thing I Know ]
[ & The Past Will Show ]
[ That The Bad Thoughts Will Go ]
[ Down ]
[ The Drain, Oh ]
[ So ]
[ Slow ]

[ Will They Go As Slow As Fast As They Came? ]
[ Will It Be Different Or Will It Be The Same? ]
[ When These Bad Thoughts Call Out My Name ]
[ I Know They Are Not Playing A Tame ]
[ Game ]

[ Because You See ]
[ This Fact Is Not Commonly Known By My Family ]
[ That Sometimes The Bad Thoughts Try To Get
The Best Of Me ]

[ Making It Easy To Cause A Rift ]
[ Doing The Opposite Of Giving Me A Lift ]

[ Making All Of My Muscles To Go Stiff ]
[ Then Sending Me To The Very Edge ]
[ Of The Cliff ]

[ Encouraging Me To Take The Dive ]
[ Asking Me (DO I REALLY WANT TO CONTINUE
BEING ALIVE?)]

[ So Far, So Good I Have Been Able To Change
That Mood ]
[ So Far I Have Been Able To Have A Better Attitude ]

[ Staying Away From That Cliff Is My Main
Objective ]
[ Knowing That Bad Thoughts Are Purely Subjective ]

[ Then Trying To Convince Myself Really Fast ]
[ That These Negative Thoughts Don’t Always Last ]
[ & Try To Leave Things In The Past ]

[ As Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust ]
[ Having & Getting Trust ]
[ Is A Must ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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