(1397)▪︎ [ Total Confusion … 12•13•2019 ]

[ I Am Totally Confused ]
[ & Right Now ]
[ I Have A Short Fuse ]

[ I Have No Clue Who I Can & Cannot Trust ]
[ Is Trust A Must? ]
[ Why Is The End Result Often A Bust? ]

[ & There Are Millions Of People Out There ]
[ Who Really Don’t Care ]

[ Those Are The Ones ]
[ That You Stay Away From ]

[ They Are The Wolves Dressed Up As Sheep ]
[ When Others Don’t Give A Rip ]
[ You Hear Nothing Louder Than A Bleep ]

[ They’re Not Dumb ]
[ By Any Means ]
[ They Will Always Sit Back & Be Numb ]

[ The Confusion Is Oftentimes Day & Night ]
[ When I’m Startled Awake ]
[ I’m In The Mode Of Fight Or Flight ]

[ Do I Run ]
[ Or Pick Up A Gun ]
[ For Fun? ]

[ Will I Have The Nerve To Pull The Trigger? ]
[ When I Find Out That The Nightmares Will Get Bigger
& Bigger? ]
[ So I Should Just Quit ]
[ This Shit! ]
[ This Makes Me Fed Up, With All Of It ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(732)▪︎[ The Rising Water … 8•29•2020 ]

[ How Do You Keep Your Head Above The Rising Water? ]
[ When The Air Around You Keeps Getting Hotter? ]

[ You Want To Dip Your Head Under To Feel Cool ]
[ But The Water Seems To Be Getting So High ]
[ You Have To Stand Up On Your Tallest Stool ]

[ If I Hold My Breath, I Think I’ll Be Fine ]
[ Life On One Side, Death On The Other ]
[ They Are Just Separated Down The Middle By A Thin Line ]

[ If I Lean To The Right Will I Have Regret ]
[ But When I Look Around ]
[ I Don’t See That Anyone Is Left ]

[ Right Or Wrong ]
[ Having Blind Faith In Others ]
[ Proved That The Bond Was Not Strong ]

[ Two Or Three Have Stayed ]
[ They Never Strayed ]

[ & That Is All That I Have To Say ]
[ Right Now On This Day ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(573)▪︎[ Almost Moving Day … 7•13•2021 ]

[ Well, Tomorrow Is The Big Day ]
[ & What Can You Say? ]

[ Yahoo!! ]
[ Boo Hoo? ]

[ Good Luck! ]
[ Go Ducks! ]

[ You Don’t Really Know ]
[ This Day Came Upon Us Extremely Slow ]

[ Time, Getting Here ]
[ & Now It Is Near ]
[ & The Date Is Marked So Clear ]

[ July 14th, 2021 Will Go Down In History ]
[ As The Day That You Stopped Living In Misery ]

[ Every Single Night ]
[ You Had To Fight ]
[ The Fright ]

[ You Are Not Jumping Up & Down For Joy ]
[ Like A Wind-Up Toy ]
[ Because He Will Always Be Your Boy ]

[ But There Is The Fact ]
[ About How Dangerous He Acts ]

[ To You & Others ]
[ Even Towards His Mother ]

[ Clear To His Soul ]
[ He Has Become Out Of Control ]

[ Every Single Night ]
[ You Had To Fight ]
[ The Fright ]
[ That Was Just Slightly Out Of Your Sight ]

[ When He Gets Confronted, He Clenches His Fists ]
[ & That Really Shows That He Is Extremely Pissed ]

[ Off ]
[ & All Of His Common Sense Is Lost ]

[ So, Yes It Is About Time That He Takes His Groove ]
[ & Move ]

[ See How He Deals With Others After The Honeymoon
Stage ]
[ Is Over ]
[ & He Acts (4) Years Younger Than His Actual Age ]

[ Than They Will See The Actual, Real Him ]
[ & He Becomes A Problem ]

[ But The Problem Is Now There ]
[ They Can Sweat Out The Problems That He Will Cause ]
[ That Will Make Them Pull Out Their Own Hair ]

[ You Were & Am Tired Of The Rampant Disrespect That He
Shows ]
[ & How He Thumbs His Nose ]

[ @ Whatever You Have Said ]
[ & Does Whatever He Wants To Do Instead ]

[ He Will Now Have To Listen To What They Say ]
[ & As He Tries To Make The Staff There, Earn Their Pay ]

[ Now His Pains & Aches ]
[ Will Cause Them Headaches ]

[ Just Like It Is Almost Moving Time ]
[ This Is The End Of This Specific Rhyme ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(540)▪︎[ It Makes You Curious … 7•2•2021 ]

[ So Many Words Coming Together To Make So Many
Thoughts ]
[ Then Swirling Around Like A Rollercoaster Of Dots ]

[ But Dots Do Not Come Together To Make Sentences ]
[ That Touches Your Senses ]

[ Making Sense May Not Be Your Goal ]
[ Sometimes You Have To Take The Dice & Give It A Roll ]

[ The Odds Are Never In Your Favor ]
[ & Losing, Has It’s Own Special, Bitter Flavor ]

[ How Did Thoughts Turn Into Food? ]
[ Somewhere In The Last 8 Lines ]
[ Things Were Misunderstood ]
[ For Some, That Might Sound Fine ]
[ But To The Average Reader, That Does Not Look Good ]

[ Dots Can Come In So Many Shapes & Colors ]
[ You Might Like One Kind ]
[ While Your Friends Like Some Others ]

[ You Guess, To Each Their Own ]
[ Sometimes Things Are Better Left All Alone ]

[ Because Crowds ]
[ Can Sometimes Come In Extremely Loud ]

[ Some Of Them ]
[ Thinks That They Are The Budding Head Of A Rose ]
[ & You Are Just The Stem ]

[ But The Stem Of A Rose Has Thorns That Hurt ]
[ Even Under Their Shirt ]

[ Others Never Take You Serious ]
[ & That Makes You Curious ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(087)▪︎[ So Alike, But So Different … 1•27•2022 ]

[ Does Everything Have To Go Up & Down In This World For
Everything To Work? ]
[ Even For The People That Have A Little Quirck? ]

[ Some Say A Little Quirckiness Is Good ]
[ They Should Tell You Before Their Actions Are Misunderstood ]

[ Everybody Has Something Quircky About Them, But It May
Not Be Obvious To The Average Joe ]
[ People Work Really Hard To Hide Whatever It Is, So It Won’t
Show ]

[ We Are All Not The Same By Any Means ]
[ You Guess We Would Look Somewhat Alike, If We Hid Behind
Enough Screens ]

[ We Don’t Look, Talk, Or Ever Feel The Same ]
[ So We Don’t All Have The Same Name ]

[ But Deep Down We Are The Same, But Some Are Not Treated
As Such ]
[ Alot Of People Are Being Treated Like They Don’t Mean Very
Much ]

[ To Who? ]
[ Well There Are Alot You’s ]

[ We All Have The Same Amount Of Bones ]
[ We Start Off With The Same Number Of Fingers & Toes ]
[ We Have (2) Eyes, Lips & Ears ]
[ & (1) Nose ]

[ Bias & Prejudice Are Behaviors That Are Learned ]
[ Not Earned ]

[ As Someone Grows & Ages ]
[ Their Personality Starts Showing ]
[ From Loving To Rages ]

[ Likes & Dislikes ]
[ Do They Like To Go On Long Walks? ]
[ Or Long, Exhausting Hikes? ]

[ Nobody Has THE Answer On How To Treat Each Other Like
Each Other ]
[ There Were Many Ways That You Were Like Your Younger
Brother ]

[ But Just Because You Are Blood, That Doesn’t Mean You Are
In Any Way Alike ]
[ Your Sister Was Like A (3) Wheeler ]
[ While You Were A Mountain Bike ]

[ Just Like There Are Many Types Of Cancers ]
[ There Must Be Alot Of Different Answers ]

[ We Are Alike, But So Different ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(085)▪︎[ Just Existing … 1•27•2022 ]

[ What Would It Feel Like Being Stuck, Penniless, Hungry, Angry &
Alone? ]
[ You Have No Idea How Long It Had Been Since You Last Got
A Text On Your Phone ]

[ You Feel Like You Are On An Island, But You Have (4) Walls ]
[ On & Off During The Day, You Feel The Tightening Of Your
Jaws ]

[ You Have Lost Track Of The Days & Weeks ]
[ You Feel A Burning Sensation, Inside Both Cheeks ]

[ You Have A Huge Knot, On The Right Side Of Your Back ]
[ You Can’t Afford An Actual Meal ]
[ Not Even A Snack ]

[ You Do Not Recall The Last Time You Ate ]
[ You Are Not Trying To ]
[ But You Can Tell That You Are Losing Weight ]

[ The Light In Your Room Flickers On & Off ]
[ You Have Had The Cold Sweats ]
[ & A Really Deep, Barking Cough ]

[ There Is No Medication That Would Agree With Your System ]
[ Nothing Prescribed By Your P.C. Doctor ]
[ Not By Any Of Them ]

[ You Cannot Remember The Last Time That You Left The House
For Pleasure ]
[ You Used To Get Coins From The Bank ]
[ As You Hunted For Treasure ]

[ You Used To Look Through So Many Pennies, Nickels & Dimes ]
[ Hours After Hours ]
[ Yes, Those Were Good Times ]

[ But After Your Spouse ]
[ Left The House ]

[ Things Have Never Been The Same ]
[ You Can Not Find Your Wife Anymore ]
[ Because She Changed Her Whole Name ]

[ Without Telling You ]
[ Without Leaving A Clue ]

[ You Have Thought Of Taking A Whole Bottle Of Store Bought
Sleeping Pills ]
[ But You Found In The Past That It Did Not Even Make You Feel
Ill ]
[ It Only Gave You Cold Sweats & Then The Chills ]

[ A Single Ambien Usually Knocks The Average Person On
Their Ass ]
[ But You Took (28) Of Them Really Fast ]
[ Using The Last Swallow Of Soda, That You Had In Your Glass ]

[ You Waited All Night To Fall Asleep ]
[ After A Couple Of Hours You Were Able To Drift Away ]
[ But You Didn’t Go Very Deep ]

[ You Startle Yourself Awake, Way To Early In The Morning ]
[ Then You Have Flashbacks Throughout The Whole Day & Night
Without A Second’s Worth Of Warning ]

[ You Feel That All You Do Is Exist ]
[ You Are Not Enjoying Your Hobbies ]
[ So You Are Not Making A Single List ]

[ You Like To Inventory Everything That You Have Collected ]
[ Now All Your Hobbies Sit Neglected ]

[ Ever Since You Were A Teen Boy ]
[ Your Life Had Found Very Little Joy ]

[ You Always Wished That As You Grew Older You Would Come
Across Some ]
[ Nothing Ever Came ]
[ Everyday Was The Same ]
[ Making You Feel Dumb ]

[ There Are Some Days & Nights ]
[ You Do Not Stand Up To Turn On The Lights ]

[ The Only Times That You Get Up, Is To Go To The Bathroom &
Back Again ]
[ You Guess Your Dad Was Right When He Told You ]
[ (YOU WILL NEVER MAKE IT, YOU WILL NEVER WIN) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(073)▪︎[ Happier Times … 1•24•2022 ]

[ Oftentimes, When One Is Searching For Solace, They Go @ It All
Alone ]
[ When They Pick Up The Phone ]
[ Listening For The Voice Of Reason ]
[ They Only Get The Dial Tone ]

[ You Can’t Wash Lonely Off Of Your Back In The Shower ]
[ You Neither Have The Patience Or The Power ]

[ It Is A Common Mistake To Look For Love In All Of The Wrong
Places ]
[ You Only Think There Is Love ]
[ In All Of The Wrong Faces ]

[ You’ve Heard (1000) Stories But None Of Them Rings True ]
[ White Is Black ]
[ & Red Is Blue ]

[ Nobody Tells The Truth Anymore ]
[ Not The Lady Leaning Against The Wall ]
[ Or ]
[ The Guy Who Just Walked Through The Door ]

[ You Had The Bright Idea That When You Had $200 In Your
Pocket You Made It Rich ]
[ & You No Longer Had To Scratch That Itch ]

[ But If You Don’t Keep Moving, That Itch Will Turn Into A Scratch
That Gets Infected ]
[ You Will Wait So Long To Get Some Medicine ]
[ It Would Need To Be Injected ]

[ Stay Stagnant & You Turn Fat & Lazy ]
[ When You Hesitate Too Long & Talk To Yourself Too Much ]
[ People Will Start Calling You Crazy ]

[ All Because You Thought You Had Made It Too Early In Life ]
[ So You Have No Kids ]
[ You Never Had The Pleasure Of Having A Wife ]

[ Because You Were Always Looking For The Next ]
[ You Always Thought That You Would Find The Best Woman
Through A Text ]

[ Not The Old Fashioned Way Of Getting Out Of The House &
Meeting Her ]
[ If You Look @ A Text You Can Never Be Sure ]

[ Friends Have Passed You By & Moved Away ]
[ You Have Not Seen A Friendly Face All Day ]

[ You Are Relegated To A Monotonous Routine ]
[ You Are Neither The King Of All You Can See ]
[ You’ve Never Been Able To Share It With A Queen ]

[ Time Passes By When A Day Turns Into A Week ]
[ & You Have Aged Past Your Peak ]

[ Sooner, Rather Than Later, You Lay In Your Bed, Waiting For
Death To Give Your Ticket A Punch ]
[ You All Of Sudden Flash Back To Happier Times When You
Were Sharing A Lunch ]
[ With … ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(071)▪︎[ The Facebook Craze … 1•24•2022 ]

[ What Is It About, This Facebook Craze? ]
[ @ Times The Whole Point, Keeps You In A Haze ]

[ Some Say That It Let’s You Re-Connect With Friends Who
Were Long Lost ]
[ But Is There A Cost? ]

[ Were They Lost For A Good Reason? ]
[ Do You Only Hear From Them, During Football Season? ]

[ Facebook Seems Like A High School Popularity Contest ]
[ You Thought It Could Be Used To Re-Connect? ]

[ You Were Popular Year After Year ]
[ But Facebook Seems To Separate It Only For The Top Tier ]

[ There Were Some People That You Were Happy To Find ]
[ You Guess Through The Past Years Some Of Them Did In Fact
Cross Your Mind ]

[ @ First You Were Accepting (FRIEND REQUESTS) From
Everyone ]
[ & Anyone ]

[ But Then The Quantity Caused You To Go Numb ]
[ & The Thought Of Getting As Many As You Could ]
[ Kind Of Sounded Pretty Dumb ]

[ Did You Have Anything In Common, Besides Your High School? ]
[ When The Numbers Kept Rising You Thought It Was Kind
Of Cool ]
[ Then You Thought That Was The Thinking Of A Fool ]

[ Would You Text Everyone (HELLO!) Everyday? ]
[ There Would Not Really Be Anyway ]

[ That You Could Complete That Task In A Few Minutes, Right?
[ ½ Way Through ]
[ You Would Find It Hard To Want To Continue To Type ]

[ (1) Day You Took Some Time To Read Down The List ]
[ There Were Numerous Names, Where You Asked Yourself
(WHO IS THIS?) ]

[ Some Of Them You Had No Clue ]
[ If You Were Standing In Front Of Them On A Sidewalk &
Trying Hard To Not Be Rude ]
[ You Would Ask (OKAY, WHO ARE YOU?) ]

[ We All Look So Different Compared To Back Then ]
[ So When You Look @ The Name ]
[ Are They Still A Friend? ]

[ Do You Even Know What City They Live In Right Now? ]
[ You Might Ask Yourself (HOW?) ]

[ Counting Every Single One Of Them, It Has Been 30 Years Since
You Had Any Kind Of Conversation With Them Face To Face ]
[ You Have Not Even Been In The Same Place ]

[ As Each Other That You Knew Of ]
[ Maybe They Were Walking Under A Bridge ]
[ & Then You Were Walking Up Above ]

[ You Ask Yourself (WHEN?) ]
[ It Could Have Happened ]

[ So You Started To Go Down The List & Hit (UNFRIEND) ]
[ Name After Name,Your Facebook Friendship With Them,
Had Now Come To An End ]

[ You Thought (IT FELT GOOD TO TRIM THAT LIST DOWN) ]
[ You Seriously Thought That Would Not Cause A Single
Frown ]

[ You Never Received Any Backlash ]
[ Or A Message Of Someone Wanting To Come Back ]

[ When You Put Stories On Your FB Page ]
[ Were You Showing Your Age? ]

[ Well, Of Course You Were ]
[ You Know Who Else Was? ]
[ Ummm, Him & Her! ]

[ When You Did Not Get Many (LIKES) Or Comments That Seemed
Disconcerting ]
[ & That Caused A Little Bit Of Hurting ]

[ But It Should Not ]
[ In The Bigger Scheme Of Things In Your World ]
[ It Is A Little Dot ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1103)▪︎[ Minute After Minute … 8•30•2019 ]

[ You Found That You Could Only Sleep Minute After
Minute ]
[ You Don’t Know Why ]
[ But Your Mind Was Not In It ]

[ A Minute Here & A Minute There ]
[ You’d Open Your Eyes & Just Stare ]
[ If I Woke Her Up ]
[ Would She Care? ]

[ Even Just A Little Bit? ]
[ Would She Just Give Me Lip? ]
[ Would You Just Be A Blip ]

[ On Her Screen Of Life ]
[ What Did She Consider Doing, As Your Wife? ]

[ Would She Even Consider Turning On The Light? ]
[ Would She Make The Room Look Like The Day ]
[ Instead Of It Being Dark As Night? ]
[ Would She Find A Way ]
[ To Turn This Into A Fight? ]
[ Considering How Things Went Today ]
[ She Might ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1105)▪︎[ All Alone … 8•31•2019 ]

[ You Just Want Be Alone ]
[ You Want To Be Somewhere Secluded ]
[ Where You Couldn’t Even Be Seen By A Giant Drone ]
[ Right Now You Don’t Want To Be Included ]
[ Because Your Heart Has Turned To Stone ]

[ You Won’t Show It Because It Can Be Broken ]
[ To Make It Pump ]
[ It Takes More Than A Token ]

[ Love Is Not What It Would Take ]
[ Beware Of The Woman With The Two Headed Snake ]
[ She’ll Try To Get In With Some Cookies She Baked ]
[ This Will Need Something Better Than A Chocolate Cake ]

[ Is Love Given Only Because It Is A Token Of
Someone’s Gratitude? ]
[ Was It Given With A Loving Attitude? ]
[ We’re They Rude? ]
[ You Could Say You Love A Person & Not Mean A
Thing ]
[ What Positive Feelings Saying (I LOVE YOU) Bring? ]
[ Does That Always Bring Two People Together? ]
[ No Matter The Weather? ]

[ Rain, Snow, Sleet Or Baking Sun ]
[ Staying Inside Is Not Always Fun ]
[ Run Forrest, Run ]
[ When Does A Couple Turn Towards Each Other & Say ]
[ (I THINK WE’re DONE) ]

[ Or Do They Keep Plugging Along To See Where
False Love Can Take Them? ]
[ Does It Take Them To Southrrn California? ]
[ Or North Salem? ]
[ Given The Examples Of Man ]
[ They’re Not Really A Big Fan ]

[ Love Comes ]
[ & Love Goes ]
[ @ Times It Makes You Do Something Dumb ]
[ Why, How Or When ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ But It Will Happen Again ]
[ Just Wait For The Shows ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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