(370)▪︎[ Too Dense … 4•14•2020 ]

[ Where Does Your Mind Go, When Your Body Falls Asleep ]
[ Does Your Mind Tell Your Mouth ]
[ To Not Make A Peep? ]

[ With All Of These Days Of Continuous Isolation ]
[ Do You Feel The Desolation? ]

[ Is There Confusion? ]
[ Or Is There Delusion? ]

[ What To Do, What To Do, With All Of This Free Time? ]
[ I Will Spend It All ]
[ Writing Rhyme After Rhyme ]
[ Not Making A Call ]
[ Just To Drop A Dime ]

[ Not All The Stories Are Worth Repeating ]
[ Don’t Turn Those Attempts ]
[ Into A Psychological Beating ]

[ But Where Does Your Mind Go ]
[ When Things Are Slow? ]
[ Do You Ever Know? ]

[ When My Mind Checks Out? ]
[ I Wonder ( WHAT’s THAT ALL ABOUT? ) ]

[ I Can Never Get An Answer That Makes Sense ]
[ Maybe I’m Too Dense ]
[ Or Others Don’t Want Me To Know What
Happens On That Side Of The Fence ]

[ So I Can Understand ]
[ The Demand ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(487)▪︎[ Where Did It All Go? … 6•13•2021 ]

[ I Should Have Summoned Up The Powers ]
[ To Give You All My Hours ]

[ Time Slips By Way Too Fast ]
[ & Memories Oftentimes Do Not Last ]

[ Sometimes Gravity ]
[ Keeps Ahold Of Me ]

[ Just When I Want To Float ]
[ I Turn To Grab My Coat ]

[ But Gravity Is Like An Ankle Weight ]
[ Holding Me Down In A Frozen State ]

[ I Always Needed You Be My Side ]
[ I Liked To Walk With You ]
[ Smiling, With Alot Of Pride ]

[ Sometimes Things Were Hot With Us ]
[ Then They Weren’t ]
[ & I Have No Idea When The Wheels Came Off The Bus ]

[ I Used To Think Our Bond Was Strong ]
[ Which One Of The Past Years Was To Blame ]
[ For When Everything Went Wrong? ]

[ All Of My Future Plans Went Up In Smoke ]
[ All Of Our Pinkie Deals Are Now Forever Broke ]

[ ( HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? ) Is What I Yell ]
[ All Of My Dreams Have Gone To Hell ]

[ When We Were Together, I Felt That I Was Living The Dream ]
[ Now I Feel Like I Am In A Paddleless Canoe ]
[ Trying To Travel Upstream ]

[ Who Would Have Thought That Everything Would Have
Been Swept Down The Drain ]
[ With The Next Big Rain ]

[ Dreams Come ]
[ & Dreams Go ]
[ I Feel So Dumb ]
[ With The Things That I Now Know ]

[ Will This Affect Me In My Next Relationship ]
[ Well Maybe Next Time, I Won’t Want To Be Connected @ The Hip ]

[ Maybe Give Her Alot More Room ]
[ Before I Start Picturing Myself As Her Groom ]

[ Whoever Said That Time Heals All Wounds Was Not Always
Right ]
[ Sometimes After The Darkness Comes ]
[ It Is Hard To See The Light ]

[ Maybe I Will Have Better Luck Next Time ]
[ Unless You Can Only Find Luck In Stories That Rhyme ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(489)▪︎[ Wow, Did I Mess Up … 6•13•2021 ]

[ Sometimes I Need To Remember To Hold On To What I’ve Got ]
[ Even Though There Are Times When I Act Like I Forgot ]

[ I Apologize All Over Myself ]
[ Because My Eyes Were Looking @ Someone Else ]

[ I Could Never Realize ]
[ How Much Hurt That You Had In Your Eyes ]

[ When You Saw Me Walking With Her Hand In Mine ]
[ I Could See By Your Expression ]
[ You Definitely Did Not Look Like You Were Going Dakine ]

[ When You Caught Me There ]
[ I Immediately Thought That Our Love Was Beyond Repair ]

[ You Waited Several Days ]
[ To Talk To Me About The Error Of My Ways ]

[ I Never Should Have Let That Other Thing Begin ]
[ I Never Want To Commit That Sin ]
[ On You, Ever Again ]

[ I Will Not Tell Another Lie ]
[ But I Have Seen Her Pass By ]
[ Just To Say ( HI ) ]

[ That Was My Only Other Interaction ]
[ I Never Made Another Infraction ]

[ Now My Sole Effort Is With You ]
[ Because That Is The Only Thing That I Want To Do ]

[ There Will Not Be Any Other Females Crossing My Path ]
[ that Is Part Of My History ]
[ Because I Do Not Want To Experience Your Wrath ]

[ Like I Have In The Past ]
[ One Time Is Enough To Last ]

[ I Let You Down In The Biggest Way ]
[ I Never Wanted The Hurt In Your Heart To Stay ]

[ The Way That You Looked @ Me The Next Day, Made Me Wince ]
[ I’ve Had Horrible Dreams About That, Ever Since ]

[ I Know That I Can Never Erase What You Saw ]
[ & I Know That Ever Since That Day Your Nerves Have Been Raw ]

[ Will We Keep Moving On? ]
[ Or Is The Connection Gone? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(485)▪︎[ Why Do We Wake-Up? … 6•11•2021 ]

[ What Do We Really Wake Up For ]
[ Is There More In Life Than What Is Behind The Bedroom
     Door? ]

[ What Is It, Can It Be Exciting? ]
[ If It Isn’t ]
[ Will We Need To Start Fighting? ]
[ What If Some People Can’t ]
[ Keep Writing? ]

[ Fighting For What & With Whom? ]
[ Will It Be Worth Walking Out Of This Room? ]

[ If We Go Out Into The Living Room, Will We Find Something
     Living? ]
[ If We Do Not Acknowledge Them ]
[ Will They Be Very Forgiving? ]

[ Forgiving Is, As Forgivness Does ]
[ There Are A Whole Bunch Of People Out There That Won’t
     Forgive Others, Just Because ]

[ Some People Always Need A Carrot In Front Of Them Before
     They Pull Someone’s Cart ]
[ Those Are The One’s That Do Not Do That Out Of The Kindness
     Of Their Heart ]

[ About A ¼ Of Society Will ]
[ The Other 3/4 Would Never Pull Another Person’s Cart Up
     A Hill ]

[ But They Will Be The First To Pull Down Their Paper Thin Mask ]
[ & Ask ]

[ Will Ask For Help, Than They Will Be A Bother ]
[ The Language They Will Use, Would Surely Offend Their
     Mother ]

[ Society As A Whole Do Not Care For Each Other ]
[ It Seems To Have Become Really Easy ]
[ To Turn Their Back On Their Only Brother ]

[ Mother’s Kicking Their Children Out Of Their Lives ]
[ Not Even Making Amends While, Or Before, They Die ]

[ That Makes That Grudge Carry-On For An Eternity & A Day ]
[ They Get A Concord Jet Ride To Hell ]
[ While The Children Stay ]
[ That Should Not Sit Well ]
[ In Any Way ]

[ But It Does Happen ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(480)▪︎[ The Back Of Your Mind … 6•9•2021 ]

[ Welcome To The Back Of Your Mind ]
[ You Should Look Around To See What You Could
     Find ]

[ Will You Find Your Long Lost Putter ]
[ Or Thoughts That Were All Cluttered ]

[ Maybe It Will Be Your Replacement House Keys ]
[ Or That Sex Talk Explaining The Birds & The Bee’s ]

[ There Could Be Some Faraway Thoughts ]
[ Or Some Footage Of You & A Friend Dancing Like
      A Pair Of Robots ]

[ There May Be Memories From Your Fabulous Honeymoon
     Trip ]
[ Or That Mental Picture Of When You Saw That Blimp ]

[ Sometimes Memories Will Just Flash ]
[ Then Disintegrate Into Ash ]

[ There Is That Picture Of You Kissing That Red-Haired Girl
      Named Tina, One Day After School ]
[ You Were No Fool ]
[ Even @ Six Years Old ]
[ You Thought That Was Pretty Cool ]

[ All Kinds Of Memories Float Around In The Back Of Your
     Head ]
[ Some You Like To Write About ]
[ But Most You Don’t Mind If You Forget About Them Instead ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(425)▪︎[ Was The Dream Real … 4•27•2020 ]

[ Sometimes I Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night ]
[ & I Have To Wipe The Fog Out Of My Eyes ]
[ So I Can Adjust To The Light ]

[ Then I See Something In The Shadows ]
[ I See Two Eyes & A Nose ]

[ Then I See ]
[ That I’m Looking In The Mirror ]
[ & It’s Me ]

[ I Look So Old ]
[ My Eyes Look So Cold ]

[ How Did Time Go By So Fast? ]
[ I Knew My Youthful Looks Wouldn’t Last! ]

[ But This Was Much Worse Than I Ever Expected ]
[ It Looked Very Obvious Up Close ]
[ It Was My Health That Was Neglected ]

[ My Skin Was Wrinkled & Gray ]
[ I Screamed @ The Mirror ]
[ Why Did I Let Myself Get This Way? ]
[ & It Became Clear ]
[ That I Didn’t Want To See What I Weighed ]

[ Then I Heard A Noise ]
[ It Was The Soft Sound ]
[ Of My Wife’s Voice ]

[ It Seemed ]
[ Like ]
[ She Was Startled Awake By My Scream ]
[ She Soothed Me ]
[ By Saying { YOU WERE JUST HAVING A BAD DREAM } ]

[ I Looked In The Mirror Once Again ]
[ I Saw That I Did Not Look Like Sin ]
[ Oh This Was A Win-Win ]

[ I Thanked My Wife For Waking Me Up ]
[ That’s When She Lifted Her Head ]
[ & Asked { I DID WHAT? } ]

[ So All That Was Real? ]
[ Now I Can’t Describe How Old I Feel ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(421)▪︎[ My Dog … 4•27•2020 ]

[ My Dog Is So Protective Of Me ]
[ Sometimes She ]
[ See’s Something That I Can’t See ]
[ & Oftentimes ]
[ I Have No Idea What That Can Be ]

[ Am I Going To Have A Long Flashback? ]
[ Is She Warning Me About A Possible Attack? ]
[ Maybe She Senses That I Might Need A Snack ]

[ Whatever It Is, She Can Be Persistent ]
[ When It Comes To My Safety ]
[ She Is Consistent ]

[ Sometimes She Senses Something Before I Know ]
[ I Guess Because Human Brains Are So Slow ]

[ Whatever It Is, She Can Read My Chart ]
[ That’s One Of The Many Reasons She Always Has ]
[ A Big Place In My Heart ]
[ & She Has Been There ]
[ From The Very Start ]

[ I Was The First Of Us Three To Find Her ]
[ When I Did ]
[ I Knew That She Was The One, For Sure! ]
[ Our House Felt Empty ]
[ & She Would Be Our Cure! ]

[ But Then An Unknown Voice Came Out Of The Blue ]
[ { ONE OF HER BROTHERS WOULD BE BEST FOR YOU } ]
[ What To Do, What To Do? ]

[ But In The End ]
[ We Figured Out What Dog & What To Spend ]

[ That’s When Freckles, The Female One ]
[ Became My Dog ]
[ & It’s Been Fun … ]

[ Ever Since! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(410)▪︎[ In My Head … 4•24•2020 ]

[ Sometimes There Are whole Days Where I Want To Climb
Up In ]
[ My Head ]
[ Where The Guys Always Win ]

[ Then I Know, In Some Small Way ]
[ I Will, @ Least Partially, Have A Good Day ]

[ Because, In My Mind ]
[ All Of The People That I Meet & Greet ]
[ Will Be Nice & Kind ]

[ I Can Walk ]
[ With Him Or Her ]
[ & Have A Good Talk ]

[ But Then I Eventually Have To Come Back To Reality ]
[ & Deal With Society ]

[ I Have To Deal With Self-Involved Hardy ]
[ Pity Parties ]

[ COVID-19 Is Real & In Some Parts Of The Country Is
Really Kicking Their Butts ]
[ I Don’t Think That There Is A Soul ]
[ Still Staring @ The T.V. Asking { COVID, WHAT? } ]

[ So Self-Isolate & Batten Down The Hatches ]
[ Where Are The Spare Batteries? ]
[ & Who Hid The Matches? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(381)▪︎[ It Was Her … 4•16•2020 ]

[ Mourning The Inevitable, Seems Like a Waste Of Time ]
[ That’s Like Taking A Pair Of Old Tennis Shoes ]
[ & Trying To Make Them Shine ]

[ How Much Time & Effort Do You Put In? ]
[ If You Don’t Know When It Ends ]
[ How Do You Know Where To Begin ]

[ Quite A Conundrum That You Stepped Into ]
[ Does It Make You Blue? ]
[ Do You Know What To Do? ]

[ Then You Feel Like You Stepped Into Quicksand ]
[ If You Can ]
[ Can You Stand? ]

[ When You Struggle, You Sink ]
[ When You Relax ]
[ You Stay On Top, So You Can Blink ]

[ When You Try To Relax, You Have Cognitive Dissonance ]
[ Your Body Wants To Struggle ]
[ & You Don’t Have Any Confidence ]

[ Get Up & Get Out ]
[ Your Mind Tries To Shout ]

[ Will Anyone Miss You? ]
[ Will Anyone Come To Help You? ]
[ Will Anyone Save You? ]

[ Do You Deserve To Be Saved? ]
[ If You Get Out Will You Behave? ]

[ Now You See Someone On The Horizon ]
[ Do They Have A Phone ]
[ & Their Service Is Through Verizon? ]

[ You Try To Shout, But You Can’t Make A Sound ]
[ You Struggle & Start Sinking Down ]
[ Then Your Hand Feels A Rope ]
[ & You Are Pulled Out To Dry Ground ]

[ & You Feel Through Happenstance ]
[ You’ve Been Given A Second Chance ]

[ @ Life ]
[ When You Look Up To See Who Was There ]
[ You See Your Wife ]

[ Then You Are Startled Awake & It Seems ]
[ You Were Having One Of Your Bad Dreams ]

[ Then You Look @ Your Wife & You Know Something You Should
Give ]
[ You Give Her This Look ]
[ That Tells Her She’s The Reason You Live ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(385)▪︎[ Who Doesn’t Get Picked? … 4•18•2020 ]

[ Everyone Needs A Laugh Every Day ]
[ If There Was Such A Way ]

[ To Get Each & Everyone To Laugh ]
[ It Would Cut The Violence In Half ]

[ It Would Be About Time ]
[ That Someone Would Come Up With A Remedy For Violent Crime ]

[ But Who Would Poke ]
[ Everyone ]
[ In Their Side With A Joke? ]

[ I Think People Would Draw ]
[ Straws ]

[ To See Who Would Get The Honor Of It ]
[ But Those Who Don’t Get Picked ]
[ Might Throw A Fit ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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