Author: rdvoe165

I Am A 62yrs Young Man, That Just Enjoys Writing Short Poetic Stories From My Thoughts. I Hope That You Enjoy Them As Much As I Do Writing Them.

(318)▪︎[ Where Is Your Footprint? … 2026 ]

[ If You Die Young ]
[ & There Was A Celebration Of Life Going On ]
[ Would Anybody Come? ]
[ Or Would Every Loved One Be Gone? ]

[ Have You Been Going So Fast ]  
[ That You Didn’t Leave Your Footprint On Anything In Your Past? ]
[ Will There Be Any Remnants Of You, That Will Last? ]

[ Can You See Any Kind Of A Footprint? ]
[ Or Is That Just Pocket Lint? ]

[ Where Did The Time Go? ]
[ Did It Pass By You Fast Or Slow? ]

[ It Seems That You Don’t ]
[ Will Your Neighbors Know? ]
[ You Bet They Won’t ]

[ How Come The Only Help ]
[ You Can Get ]
[ Is From The Lone Review On Yelp? ]

[ You Look & Look ]
[ But There Is Zero Chit Chat On Facebook ]

[ What About Your 100’s Of So Called Friends? ]
[ Did Anybody Stick By You Through The End? ]

[ You Are Finding Out That You Left Nothing Of Worth ]
[ On This Earth ]

[ Not In Your House ]
[ Or Words From Your Grieving Spouse ]

[ But You Quickly Find That She Is Not Grieving ]
[ She Is Packing Up & Leaving ]

[ Going Into The Unknown ]
[ Since All Of Your Life Insurance Has Been Blown ]

[ Why Should She Stay? ]
[ Another Week? ]
[ Or Another Day ]

[ Would You Want To Bet ]
[ That You Will Not Even Find Your Favorite Jacket?  ]

[ Would That Be Given To The Goodwill Store? ]
[ Since It Does Not Have A Purpose Anymore? ]

[ Did You Cherish Money Over Time Spent With Others? ]
[ When You Did Find The Time ]
[ You Chose To Stay Under Your Covers ]

[ How Come There Is Not A Single Clue ]
[ That There Has Been Any Footprint Made By You? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(350)▪︎[ Giving Up … 8-15-2025 ]

[ You Feel Like You Are Giving Up ]
[ You Are Catching Your Tears ]
[ By Using Your Coffee Cup ]

[ You Are Feeling Like Your Life Source ]
[ Seems To Be Leaving Your Body ]
[ It Feels Like You Do Not Have Any Kind Of Protective Force ]
[ Keeping Your Head From Getting Foggy ]


[ You Have Tried All Of Your Adult Life ]
[ To Be A Good Husband, Father, Friend & Man ]
[ To Others, Like Your Son & Your Wife ]
[ While Also Wishing That They Would Become Your Biggest Fans ]

[ The Sparkle Has Been Leaving Your Eyes ]
[ For Several Years Now ]
[ Only You Can See Your Pain & Hear Your Cries ]
[ You Would Like To Express This To Others, But You Do Not Know How ]

[ Everyone Is Way To Busy ]
[ To See Your Pain ]
[ To Others They Might See You As Lazy ]
[ & A Little Bit Insane ]
[ Some People That Knows You, Might Want To Call You Crazy ]
[ But Thankfully, Most Of Them Refrain ]

[ Sometimes All You Hear Is The Riot ]
[ In Your Head ]
[ Why Can’t You Have A Single Night Of Quiet ]
[ Instead? ]

[ The Other Times Your Thoughts Are Like A Spinning Top ]
[ There Have Been Many That You Will Feel Like A Flop ]
[ Whenever That Happens ]
[ It Is So Obvious That Is The Reason Why Your Self-Esteem Will Take A Sudden Drop ]

[ Your Marriage Feels Like It Is Falling ]
[ Off A Cliff ]
[ Nobody Ever Feels Like Calling ]
[ To Give You That Much Needed Lift ]

[ You Used To Have ]
[ So Many Names In Your Rolodex ]
[ Now You Don’t Even See ½ ]
[ That Many Names To Text ]

[ When You Are Smack Dab In The Middle Of A Major Crisis ]
[ You Reach For One Of Your Electronic Devices ]

[ But When You Look Through Your Contacts List ]
[ You Have No Idea Who To Call ]
[ When You Get Upset You Clench Your Fists ]
[ All That Does Is Make You Flashback To When Frustration Caused You To Hit A Wall ]

[ But You Are Not Angry, You Are Emotionally Hurt ]
[ You Start To Feel That Your Blood Pressure Has Bottomed Out ]
[ Will Anyone Be Able To See Your Broken Heart Through Your Shirt? ]
[ That Is Just One Of The Many Things That You Doubt ]

[ Your Wife Has Said That She Hates What You Have Changed ]
[ Into ]
[ Nobody Understands What Your Brain ]
[ Has Been Through ]

[ Maybe Your Thought Process ]
[ Cannot Be Fixed ]
[ That Causes You To Feel Lost ]
[ Because You Feel As Strong As A House That Has Been Built With Match Sticks ]

[ When You Text, “I Give Up” To Your Friends, That Was A Cry For Help ]
[ Now You Feel Like You Should Have Kept Your Vulnerability ]
[ On A Garage Shelf ]
[ Because Someone With Your Type Of Personality ]
[ Should Have Reached Out On “Yelp” ]

[ You Have Kind Of Felt ]
[ Throughout The Years That You Are Like An Aquired Taste ]
[ Your Inner Circle Is Getting Smaller Like The Tightening Of The Belt ]
[ That You Wear Around Your Waist ]

[ It Is Not Crystal Clear ]
[ Where Things Will Be Going From Here ]

[ You Really Have To Get Your Thoughts Straight ]
[ You Cannot Wait ]
[ You Need To Take Your Future, Your Fate ]
[ Into Your Own Hands ]
[ Post Haste ]

[ Get Back To Living As “One” With Your Spouse ]
[ So You Will Have, Once Again ]
[ A Harmonious House ]
[ Right When Your Days Begin ]
[ Stop Being A Grouch ]
[ Do Things That Can Be Looked @ As A “Win-Win” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha 

Na 
Lopaka DeVoe 

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(001)▪︎[ What Promise? … 2026 ]

What’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept?

[ What Is A Promise You Made To Yourself That You Actually Kept? ]

[ There Have Been (2) That Come To Mind ]

[ The First Promise Was When You Were In (8th) Grade ]

[ You Went Over To A Friend’s House ]

[ He Already Had A Friend There, But No Parents To Be Found, Since It Was The Summer ]

[ Well They Both Started Drinking & Smoking On Someone’s Bong ]

[ Well, Within The Hour They Started Acting Obnoxious & Like Fools ]

[ You Just Got Up & Went Home Thinking That Doing Drugs & Drinking Was Stupid ]

[ You Made The Promise To Yourself That You Would NOT Touch Alcohol Or Drugs Until After You Turned (18yrs) Old & Graduated High School ]

[ During High School You Still Went To The Regular Weekend Parties ]

[ But You Kept Your Promise To Yourself By Being One Of The Very Few To Walk Around Sipping Coke Out Of A Can & Staying Sober ]

[ There Was Alot Of Peer Pressure To Break Your  Promise ]

[ You Did Not Try Anything Until You Went To College ]

[ So You Kept Your Promise ]

[ You Did Go To The Parties For The First (2yrs) Then Did Not Touch Another Drop For (10) More Years ]

[ Then You Got Really Drunk @ Your Bachelors Party A Week Before Your Wedding ]

[ The (4) Friends That Took Out Got You Extremely Drunk! ]

[ You Drank More That Night Than You  Ever Did Prior ]

[ The Day After Your  Party Was When You Made The Other Promise … No More Drinking ]

[ That Was March 9th, 1996 ]

[ So You Are (2) For (2) & You Are Proud Of It ]

[ Whenever You Drank You Never Got Sick Or Had Any Sort Of Hangover ]

[ More Than A Few People Thought You Were Lucky ]

[ You Did Consider Yourself Lucky ]

[ Because Later In Life … ]

[ You Found Out The Truth On Why Your Biological Father Put A Gun To His Girlfriends Head Than Shot Himself In Front Of You & Your Sister In (1966) … They Were Really Drunk & Were Arguing ]

[ Then Your Only Sister Dropped Out Of High School, Started Drinking & Doing Drugs After She Ran Away ]

[ The Last Thing You Ever Knew About Her Was She Was Homeless, Living On The Streets Of S.E. Portland ]

[ She Is Most Likely Dead & That Was Over (15yrs) Ago ]

[ Your Only Brother Went Out On The Town While Living In Las Vegas With His Daughter ]

[ He Went To Sleep & Never Woke Up ]

[ (3) Out Of (3) Family Members Are Gone Because Of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Problems ]

[ You Miss Your Brother The Most! ]

[ Drinking & Drugs Was So Intertwined In Your Families DNA! ]

[ Yes, You Consider Yourself Lucky ]

[ You Don’t Preach To Anyone About Drug &/Or Alcohol Use, Not Even To Your Own Kid ]

[ He Knows All That You’ve Lost & It’s A Choice For Anyone ]

[ Those Are Your (2) Best Promises To Yourself That You Have Worked Really Hard  To Keep ]

Mahalo,

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Dinner … 2026 ]

If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be?

[ If You Could Have Dinner With A Fictional Character Who Would It Be? ]

[ You Do Not Have Any Interest In A Fictional Character ]

[ One Person You Had Always Wanted To Dine With Is Your Biological Father ]

[ You Would Have A Really Long List Of Questions You Have Always Wanted To Ask Him ]

[ The Top Of The List Would Be, “Why Did You Commit Suicide In Front Of Me & My Sister?” ]

Mahalo,

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(275)▪︎[ The Twist … 2025 ]

[ What If Your Life Was Turned Upside Down & Twisted To The Left? ]
[ Then Twisted Back To The Right? ]
[ Would You Have To Watch Your Step ]
[ Before You Are Able To Turn On The Light? ]


[ Life Is Like That ]
[ It Seems To Be A Proveable Fact ]
[ That You Are Raised & Directed On How To Act ]

[ If Other’s Are Acting In Front Of You ]
[ How Do You Continue ]
[ Knowing What To Do? ]

[ Do You Just Want To Wing It? ]
[ Bit By Bit ]

[ Everything Counts ]
[ But If You Are Not Careful ]
[ The Bills Will Mount ]
[ & Then You Would Have To Empty Your Bilfold ]

[ Then Where Are You @ ]
[ If You Keep Eating Processed Food ]
[ You Could Get Fat ]
[ & That Wouldn’t Be Good ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(001)▪︎[ Purchase … 2026 ]

What is the best purchase you have ever made?

[ What Is The Best Purchase? ]

[ You Thought It Would Have Been Your House ]

[ But Then That Whole Thing Went To Hell ]

[ So The Best Purchase Turns Out To Be Your Brand New (2001) Volkswagen Passat ]

[ It Was Fast When It Needed To Be Like From Being @ A Red Light, Turning Green. It Was Great When You Needed To Suddenly Merge On To The Freeway ]

[ The Car Had Tiptronic Shifting ]

[ On A Straightaway Portion Of  Hwy (22) Going To Monmouth, Early In The Morning Of A Clear Day, With No Other Traffic ]

[ You Pushed The Speedometer Past (115mph) ]

[ It Was Both Exhilarating & Scary ]

[ Your Steering Stayed Straight & Did Not Shake @ All ]

[ You Did Not Drive Her Very Much, Only About (47,000mi) Over (10yrs) ]

[ She Held Her Value When You Traded It In For Another Vehicle ]

Mahalo,

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Misunderstanding … 2026 ]

What’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve ever been part of?

[ What’s The Funniest Misunderstanding? ]

[ You Do Not Really Have A Funniest Misunderstanding, Per Se, But You Do Have One Of The Most Embarrassing Moments ]

[ This Was Way Back In The Year (1991) ]

[ You Were @ Your High School (10th) Reunion & You Saw A Classmate, Lisa, With Her Husband ]

[ You Had Gone To School With Lisa For @ Least (6-7yrs) ]

[ You Thought You Would Be Nice & Congratulate Her On Her Upcoming Baby ]

[ She Looked @ You With Total Shock, Then Said, “I Had My Baby (2mo) Ago!” ]

[ You Were SOOOOO Embarrassed & Felt So Bad ]

[ You Just Wanted To Go Sit In The Corner ]

[ You Have Never Misunderstood A Woman’s Stomach Size Again ]

[ You Have Never Said That Or Asked Any Woman If She Was Expecting Again! ]

[ You Could Not Apologize Enough! ]

[ She Came Up To You Later & You (2) Had A Good Talk & Laugh ]

Mahalo,

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(303)▪︎[ Next Time, See The Signs … 2026 ]

[ When It Sounds Like An Argument Is Going Back & Forth ]
[ Maybe You Should Take A Pause ]
[ Then Go To Your “True North” ]
[ Before The Other Person Starts Showing Their Claws ]

[ Because You Might Find That Their Strongest Characteristic ]
[ Might Be When They Show How Narcissistic ]

[ They Truly Get & Are ]
[ That Might Be Why They Are So High Maintenance ]
[ Like A Really Expensive Sports Car ]

[ Going To Your “True North” Can Have Such A Calming Affect ]
[ Especially In The Face ]
[ Of Someone Who Acts Like They Are An Emotional Train Wreak ]

[ It Is Not Up To You To Solve Their Problems ]
[ Or Fix Them ]

[ A Narcissist Cannot Ever Get Out Of Their Own Way ]
[ Mainly Because They Do Not Ever Believe They Are In The First Place ]
[ No Matter What You Will Say ]
[ Or Show To Their Face ]

[ A Narcissist Is Never Truly Empathetic ]
[ But Getting Away From One Can Prove To Be ]
[ Very Cathartic ]
[ & Strangely ]
[ Staying With One Can Prove To Become Very Problematic ]

[ So Why Would You Want To Stay With One ]
[ Since Now That Everything Has Stopped Being Fun ]
[ You Are Just Very Pleased That There Won’t Be An Anniversary For Year (31) ]
[ So Take The Advice Of “Run Forest, Run!” ]

[ You Will Find ]
[ That You Will Never Be Able To Figure Out The Thinking ]
[ That Goes On In Their Mind ]
[ They Could Try To Spend Many Nights Binge Drinking ]
[ & They Will Never Go Dakine! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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