(699)▪︎[ The Soldier Comes Through … 8•21•2021 ]

[ A Man Once Said That (WAR IS NOT WON BY SENTIMENT,
     IT IS WON BY SOLDIERS) ]
[ Would That Be The Thinking Of Our Elders? ]

[ Through All Of Our Wars Soldiers Died Horrible Deaths
     On The Fields Of Battle ]
[ Through It All ]
[ It Seemed Like Most Of The Soldiers Were Not Rattled ]

[ A Steady Hand When They Were Firing Their Guns ]
[ The Brave Soldier Rarely Runs ]

[ They Were There For Battle, Only ]
[ Most Of The Soldiers That Died ]
[ Died Cold & Lonely ]

[ Most Never Saw It Coming ]
[ The Numbers Were Mind Numbing ]

[ There Is No One More Loyal Person Than A Soldier Defending The
     Only Country That They Have Ever Loved ]
[ That Is The Place Where They Have Not Felt Snubbed ]

[ Trying To Defend Our Flag ]
[ So We Won’t Live In A Country Where People Who Speak
     Their Minds Are Bound & Gagged ]

[ The Flag Is A Symbol Of Peace ]
[ Where People Try To Own A Home ]
[ Not Have To Get One On A Lease ]

[ On A Lease, They Eventually Have To Give It Back ]
[ Then When They Get The Option To Buy It ]
[ It Is The Money That They Lack ]

[ When The Lease Is Up They Must Lease Another One ]
[ They Will Find Out That Constantly Moving Is Not
     Very Fun ]

[ The Soldier ]
[ As They Grow Older ]

[ Feels Like Others Are So Ungrateful ]
[ & They Also Become Increasingly Forgetful ]

[ Forgetful Of The Sacrifice & Risk That They Made & Took ]
[ The Only Evidence Of The Soldiers Actions ]
[ Are Now Discussed When People Read About Them In
     History Books ]

[ The Soldier Is Our First & Last Line Of Defense ]
[ So When It Comes To Studying History ]
[ The Word (SOLDIER) Should Be In The First & Last Sentence ]

[ Weapons Do Not Fight The War, The Soldiers Do ]
[ Give The Veterans, What They Are Due ]

[ It Is Believed, That There Has Been (580,135) Soldiers Who Have
     Died Serving Our Country ]
[ That Is Quite A Few Who Has Died, So We Could Walk Around
    Being Free ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1149)▪︎[ A Deep Sleep … 9•11•2019 ]

[ Have You Ever Had One Of Those Days, Where You Just
Want To Go Back To Sleep? ]
[ Not A Nap ]
[ But One, Where You’re Under Really Deep ]

[ It Is Like You’re On The Sleep Elevator Where The Level Of
Deep Goes Up, As The Elevator Goes Down ]
[ You Go To The Level, Where There’s No Sound ]

[ You Pass The Level, Where You Dream ]
[ Go Past The Nightmares, That Make You Scream ]

[ Head Towards The Darkness, Where There’s No Light ]
[ Your Hearing Is Amazing ]
[ Compensating, Because You Have No More Sight ]

[ It’s Not Like, You’re Totally Blind ]
[ It’s So Dark ]
[ You See With Your Mind ]
[ You Thought You Heard A Bark ]
[ So You Check Your Behind ]

[ There’s Nothing There ]
[ Except, Cold Air ]

[ Don’t Be Scared Of The Dark, Because There Is Nothing
To Be Afraid Of ]
[ The Last Light You Had, Was From Way Up Above ]

[ You Shiver & The Cold Goes Down To The Bone ]
[ Do You Try To Anticipate, The Not Yet Known? ]

[ Where You Can’t Anticipate, What Goes On Here ]
[ Because, What Goes On Is Never Clear ]

[ You Come To A Room & You Find A Corner Where You Can Sit ]
[ When You Lose Your Sight, Do You Just Want To Quit? ]

[ You Have To Be Confident That You’ll Get Your Sight Back ]
[ So Don’t Worry, If All You Can See Is Black ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1160)▪︎[ Running … 9•14•2019 ]

[ Running From My Shadow ]
[ I’m Running So Hard ]
[ But Things Are Going By Me So Slow ]

[ Running Towards What I Want ]
[ These Are Just Words ]
[ Not A Taunt ]

[ Oftentimes I Don’t Know ]
[ Which Way To Go ]

[ Who Do I Follow? ]
[ Everyone’s Words, Sound So Hollow ]

[ So I Need, To Take The Chance ]
[ & Dance The Dance ]

[ My Gustatory Nerve Cells ]
[ Picks Up The Orders ]
[ & The Bad Smells ]

[ I’ve Always Thought My Nose Would Not Be As Good As
My Eyes ]
[ I Can’t Smell Them ]
[ But I Can See The Lies ]

[ Lies, Lies I Can See The Mouth Moving ]
[ But Your Words Are Not Very Soothing ]
[ What Are You Proving? ]

[ Are You Trying To Prove Me Wrong? ]
[ That’s Worth As Much As A Dance & A Song ]
[ It Is Short On Truth ]
[ But The Lies Are Long ]

[ I Don’t Know How We’ll Ever Get To The End Of The Line ]
[ He’s Doing Okay ]
[ But I Know I’m Doing Fine ]
[ Fine, Fine, Things Are Going Just Fine While We Go Dakine ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1164)▪︎[ Go … 9•16•2019 ]

[ Have You Ever Felt Alone In A Crowd? ]
[ & Then When You’re All By Yourself ]
[ You Find That The Silence Is So Loud? ]

[ @ Night When You Find Yourself Laying On The Bed ]
[ & You Want To Wrap Your Pillow Around Your Head ]

[ What Can You Do Instead? ]
[ Go To Sleep ]
[ After You Take Your Sleeping Med? ]

[ But Can You Sleep? ]
[ Why Do You Weep? ]

[ You’re So Awake You Feel That Life Is Passing You By ]
[ Why Now? Why? ]

[ You Thought For A Quick Instance Yesterday That You’ve
Found Your Niché In Life ]
[ You Met Her For A Brief Moment ]
[ But Did You Finally Meet The Woman That Will Become Your Wife? ]

[ Will The Dream Continue Or Pop? ]
[ When You’re Going Downhill, Do You Yell (STOP?) ]
[ Does The Fast Pace Make Your Heart Drop? ]

[ Then Go Directly To Jail Without Passing (GO) ]
[ Speed It Up ]
[ Stop Dragging Your Feet & Going Slow ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1165)▪︎[ Down By The Ocean … 9•16•2019 ]

[ When You Close Your Eyes, What Do You See? ]
[ Are You Playing In The Sand? ]
[ @ The Edge Of The Sea? ]
[ You See Someone Running Towards You ]
[ & You Begin To Wonder (WHO CAN THAT BE?) ]

[ Then In The Blink Of Your Eye ]
[ There’s No More Guy ]
[ But, You Didn’t See Him Run Right By ]

[ So Where Did He Go? ]
[ He Wasn’t Going Slow ]

[ But He Wasn’t Going All That Fast ]
[ He Didn’t Run Past ]

[ You ]
[ Who? ]

[ Was He? ]
[ Why Can’t You See ]

[ Him, Anymore? ]
[ Did He Disappear Through A Door? ]

[ But Why Would A Door Be On The Beach? ]
[ & Then Have The Doorknob Just Out Of Reach? ]

[ But If You Can’t Grasp It, How Could He? ]
[ It Just Goes To Show ]
[ Anything Can Happen Down By The Sea ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(618)▪︎[ That Would Be A Nope … 7•25•2021 ]

[ Right Now Pain ]
[ Is Putting Up Roadblocks In My Brain ]

[ When I Want To Juke To The Right ]
[ My Brain Puts Up A Fight ]

[ When I Am Thinking That I Am In The Clear ]
[ Up Comes A Mirror ]

[ Reflecting What I Do Not Want To See ]
[ Because I Want To Think Free ]

[ Without Obstacles ]
[ Reaching Out It’s Tentacles ]

[ Like An Octopus On Crack ]
[ Always Looking Back ]
[ To Focus On What Is On Track ]

[ Blocking The Road ]
[ & Making Me Feel Old ]

[ Pain Shooting Down My Right Leg ]
[ Making Me Beg ]

[ For It All To Go Away ]
[ Maybe For A Minute, An Hour ]
[ Or A Full Day ]

[ Just Give Me Some Hope ]
[ Not Always A ( NOPE )

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(622)▪︎[ Go Get It … 7•26•2021 ]

[ Unhappy Says You ]
[ As You Search For That One Clue ]

[ That Will Make You Feel Complete ]
[ Since You Are Not On Twitter ]
[ You Know That It Cannot Be A Tweet ]

[ What Are You Looking For? ]
[ Will It Be On The Other Side Of The Door? ]

[ Maybe It Is Down The Path That Winds Through The Woods ]
[ Leading You, To More Shoulds ]
[ Or Is It More Coulds ]

[ Maybe This Is Something That Tells You To Get More Out
Of The Life That You Have Been Given ]
[ Showing You The Path Where You Need To Start Livin’ ]

[ Start Living Your Best Life By Saying ( YES PLEASE ) ]
[ To A Life That Has Been Filled With Cheese ]

[ Earlier In Your Life You Lived To Lift ]
[ Now That You Have Been Given This Gift ]

[ That Is What You Should Center Your Life Around ]
[ Not Beat It Into The Ground ]

[ You Should Experiment ]
[ See What You Can Get ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(708)▪︎[ Walk Towards What You Know … 8•23•2021 ]

[ It Doesn’t Take All Day To Recognize Sunshine ]
[ So I Always Wanted To Make Yours, Mine ]

[ You Have Been Lost ]
[ & You Have Been Found ]
[ You Cannot Believe The Cost ]
[ Since You Last Came Around ]

[ For A Start ]
[ It May Cost You Your Heart ]

[ You Found That The Starter ]
[ Was Much Harder ]

[ Because Of The Welt ]
[ That You Felt ]
[ From The Belt ]

[ Around Your Waist ]
[ But It Was Just A Taste ]

[ Of What Was To Come ]
[ Or Become ]
[ Numb ]

[ When It Gets To The Brain ]
[ It Starts The Rain ]
[ That Starts To Make You Go Nearly Insane ]

[ Because Of The Dark Cloud ]
[ That Hovers Over Your Head ]
[ Making The Silence So Loud ]
[ You Wish That You Were Dead ]

[ But Then A Woman Came Into Your Life ]
[ That Soon Became Your Wife ]

[ While You Were Seeing ]
[ The Sunshine Coming In ]
[ It Started Changing You, As A Human Being ]

[ Knowing That Neither Comments Or Stones ]
[ Will Ever Break Your Bones ]

[ Other People’s Comments Used To Break You Down ]
[ & Grind Your Heart Into The Ground ]

[ But You Try To Think About What Is Right ]
[ & Follow The Beacon Of Light ]
[ Then That Puts A Stop To The Fight ]

[ Because Words Can Hurt ]
[ & Make You Feel Like Dirt ]

[ They Can Leave A Deep Scar ]
[ & They Are All Yours ]
[ Not Ours ]

[ A Scar Is So Individual ]
[ So It Is NOT Divideable ]

[ That Is When You Look Back @ That Beacon Of Light That Found
You Many Years Ago ]
[ Walk Towards The One That You Know ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(612)▪︎[ Are We All So Different? … 7•25•2021 ]

[ Are We All So Different From One Person To The Next? ]
[ Would We All Have Different Interpretations When Reading
     The Same Text? ]

[ We All Are Where We Are, By Taking Different Roads ]
[ We All Stress In Different Ways Under Different Loads ]

[ Your Eyes ]
[ Are Totally Different, When Compared To Different Guys ]

[ Personal Views Are As Different As Each One Of Our
     Fingerprints ]
[ Others Might Excell On Taking Tests ]
[ But You Don’t, Even When Given Hints ]

[ Test Anxiety Is A Real Disorder For Some ]
[ If You Are Unable To Excell On Tests, That Doesn’t Mean That
     You Are Dumb ]

[ When Someone Asks You To Look @ Things Through Their Eyes,
     It Is An Impossible Task ]
[ You Are Always Amazed That Some People Still Ask ]

[ We All Could See The Same Thing On The Nightly News ]
[ Then We Each Would Have Our Own Individual Points Of
     Views ]

[ You Did Not Get To This Same Date In The Exact Same Way As
     Another Guy ]
[ You Did Not Even Stop To Say ( HI ) ]
[ Because You Wanted To Just Walk On By ]
[ Would He Tell You A Lie? ]
[ If He Was Forced To Tell You Why ]

[ The One Thing That Is So Different From One To Another ]
[ It Is The Mind ]
[ It Can Be Different Even Between Twin Brothers ]

[ But Studies Do Say That Twins Are More Of The Same Than
     They Are Different ]
[ Sometimes It Also Depends On The Time Spent ]

[ Together Or Apart ]
[ Sometimes Distance Can Tug @ The Heart ]

[ As Much As We Are Different, We Are Kind Of The Same ]
[ We Have Nature To Blame ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(611)▪︎[ Getting & Hoping For Good Luck … 7•24•2021 ]

[ Is Good Luck Given Or Made? ]
[ If You Don’t Have It ]
[ Can You Find Something To Be Given For A Trade? ]

[ Can You Trade An Ex-Wife For A Day Of Luck? ]
[ If You Can’t & She Finds Out ]
[ You Better Duck ]

[ If & When ]
[ She Ever Sees You Again ]

[ Will Finding A Four Leaf Clover @ The End Of A Rainbow
     Bring You A Pot Of Gold? ]
[ That Will Pay Off All Of Your Everyday Bills ]
[ While You Enjoy Growing Old ]

[ You Have The Luck Of (10) Cracked Mirrors ]
[ Destined To Have Bad Luck For @ Least The Next (70) Years ]

[ You Have Never Had Good Luck Spilling Out Of Your
     Back Pocket ]
[ If You Were To Look @ The List Of Daily Events ]
[ Having Amazing Good Luck Has Never Been Written On
     Any Docket ]

[ Or Pulled In By A Fishing Net ]
[ It Has Never Been Sewn Into The Inside Of Your Favorite Jacket ]

[ Everybody Knows ]
[ That Good Luck Comes & Goes ]

[ Bad Luck Or No Luck Are The Usual Ones That Stick Around ]
[ Whenever You Are Hoping For Good Luck ]
[ That Is The Kind Of Luck That Can’t Be Found ]

[ In Acting It Is Always Bad Luck To Wish Someone Good
     Luck In Some Ways ]
[ If You Don’t Say ( BREAK A LEG ) You Might Not Be Talked
     To For Many Days ]

[ Good Luck Cannot ]
[ Be Bought ]
[ Or Taught ]
[ Sometimes If Luck Is Going Good ]
[ You Need To Be Thankful For The Luck That You’ve Got ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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