[ Can You See My Scars? ]
[ Inside My Head, They Are As Big As Cars ]
[ The Ones That Cannot Be Seen ]
[ Are From People Who Were Nasty & Mean ]
[ Those Kinds Of People Attack ]
[ From Behind ]
[ & Stab You In The Back ]
[ & They Don’t Do It By The Light Of Day ]
[ They Do It @ Night When It’s Black ]
[ Outside ]
[ The Scars Can Be As Small As A Paper Cut ]
[ But It Causes A Gap ]
[ That Is Hard To Keep Shut ]
[ The Unseen Scars Are The Deepest & Hurt The Most ]
[ Sometimes They Feel Like They’ve Been Stabbed By A Post ]
[ Then You’ll Never Get Back The Trust That Was Lost ]
[ You’ll Never Come To A Final Cost ]
[ But As You Are Attempting To Recoup Your Loss ]
[ Your Pain Will Always ]
[ Let You Know, Who’s The Boss ]
[ But When The Pain Is Below The Surface ]
[ You Can Never Figure Out How, Or Why ]
[ & What Is The Purpose ]
[ The Purpose Is To Cause More Pain ]
[ Scars Want To Remind You Again & Again ]
[ That It’s Not Going To Be Very Kind ]
[ To Keep Pain On Your Mind ]
[ @ Least That Is What You Find ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Author: rdvoe165
(237)▪︎[ Who Is Left? … 3•7•2020 ]
[ Can You Live Your Life With Your Own Failures? ]
[ Would It Be Easy Being On A Ship Living With A Group Of
Sailors? ]
[ What If Half Of The Problems That You’ve Had While You’ve
Been Alive ]
[ Was Wiped Away? ]
[ Would You Then Thrive? ]
[ Or Would You Continue To Dog Paddle In The Deep-End Of
The Lake? ]
[ You Just Do Not Know What It Would Take ]
[ To Reach The Side & Climb Out ]
[ Surviving Is Your Greatest Doubt ]
[ If There Are Always Those That Have To Remember What Was ]
[ There Will Be Those That Will Never Reach For What Can Be ]
[ Because ]
[ They Don’t Want To See ]
[ What Faith Does ]
[ They Will Resist ]
[ As The Faithful Persist ]
[ Who Will Win? ]
[ & ]
[ Who Will Lose ]
[ When It’s Your Choice ]
[ Who Will Begin ]
[ To Choose? ]
[ By Using Their Voice? ]
[ While Not Turning To Booze ]
[ Living Is The Hardest Part Of Life ]
[ Having The Energy To Keeping The Light ]
[ On Strong ]
[ Throughout The Night ]
[ Keeping Safe, The Ones That You Love ]
[ Handling Them Gently ]
[ Like You Would A Dove ]
[ Then Not Putting Up A Fight ]
[ & Letting Them Know What Is Best ]
[ When They Want To Take Flight ]
[ From The Family Nest ]
[ Then You’ll Know To Keep In Sight ]
[ The Love You Have For The Rest ]
[ That Are Left ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(217)▪︎[ Why Don’t You Know? … 3•4•2020 ]
[ I Cry & You Don’t Know When I’m Hurt ]
[ Then My Tears Fall On My Shirt ]
[ What Do You Do? ]
[ All I Get Is A Cold Feeling ]
[ & A Blank Look From You ]
[ Where’s The Love? ]
[ What Are You Thinking Of? ]
[ When You See Me Standing There Looking Like A Mess ]
[ I Have To Confess ]
[ I Feel Totally Undressed ]
[ & That Makes Me Stressed ]
[ Why Do You Not Know How To Comfort Me ]
[ It’s Just Like The Day I Scraped My Knee ]
[ Where Were You? ]
[ I Had No Clue ]
[ Whatsoever ]
[ I Thought You Would Never ]
[ Turn Your Back ]
[ What’s Up With That? ]
[ I Remember Things Like This ]
[ To Me It’s A Total Diss ]
[ When I’m Away From You This Is One Feeling That I Do Not Miss ]
[ Where’s The Respect? ]
[ I Know, I Know, What Should I Expect ]
[ I Expect More ]
[ I Didn’t Expect You To Take My Emotions ]
[ & Sweep The Floor ]
[ Would You Then Take My Heart & Wipe The Windows? ]
[ Who Would Know? ]
[ What Would That Show? ]
[ That Would Show That You Will Always Be The Dominant
One ]
[ Are We THAT Done? ]
[ & That Makes Me Sad ]
[ Dad ]
[ So, Let Me Make This So Crystal Clear ]
[ I Am So Glad That You Are Not Up Here ]
[ & I So Much Care ]
[ That You Wound Up Down There ]
[ So, Here’s To Burnt Hair! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(213)▪︎[ Don’t Turn Back … 3•4•2020 ]
[ Go Away Little Girls ]
[ With Your Head Full Of Curls ]
[ Stop Being The Kind ]
[ That Tries To Mess With All Of The Mens Minds ]
[ They Are Not Going To Get Very Far ]
[ With Their Head Up In The Stars ]
[ Driving Their Fast Car ]
[ While Stopping In @ All Of The Young Crowd Bars ]
[ Looking In The Dark For Mr. Wright ]
[ But They Find That He’s Nowhere In Sight ]
[ Then Someone Makes The Room All Bright ]
[ By Turning On The Light ]
[ That Just Shines A Light On The Bad ]
[ & What Makes Them So Mad ]
[ Is That The Couples Look Oh So Sad ]
[ Do The Women See No Reason To Take Flight ]
[ Because All They Do Is Fight ]
[ With Who They Thought Was The Guy That’s Right ]
[ They Have No Clue ]
[ About What They Should Do ]
[ They Look For Any Recent Text ]
[ About What To Do Next ]
[ Who Will Take Or See Their Side ]
[ On Everything ]
[ When They Hide ]
[ The Gold Wedding Rings ]
[ When Others Hear That They Lied ]
[ About These Things ]
[ They May Turn Their Backs & Walk ]
[ & Let It Be Known ]
[ That They Will Never Again Be Asked To Sit Down & Talk ]
[ About The Circumstances ]
[ That Had Them Taking Chances ]
[ Going To Those Wild, Loud Dances ]
[ That They Normally Would Not Have Thought Of ]
[ If They Weren’t In The Wrong Places ]
[ Looking For Love ]
[ In A Group Of Strange Faces ]
[ What Were They Exploring? ]
[ Leaving Friends Worrying ]
[ Back Home ]
[ Where They Are Known ]
[ But If They Would Only Pick Up The Phone ]
[ They Would Stop In Their Tracks ]
[ & Come Back ]
[ Where They Started ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(208)▪︎[ Whispers … 3•3•2020 ]
[ In The Dead Of Night I Hear Your Voice In My Ear ]
[ I Hear You Just Like If You Were Here ]
[ It’s Not Warbled ]
[ It Sounds Perfectly Clear ]
[ You Simply Ask ( WHAT’s GOING ON? ) Simple & Plain ]
[ I Want To Shut Out The Noise & Make Yours The Main ]
[ Sound ]
[ Around ]
[ I Told My Care Giver, ( I SO MISS YOUR CALLS ]
[ The Silence Drives Me Up My Four Walls ]
[ I Can’t Say I Miss You Physically Because We Only Saw
Each Other For That One Week 22 Years Ago ]
[ I Miss What I Know ]
[ & That Was Your Voice ]
[ Because It Wasn’t Just Noise! ]
[ It Was The Lifeline Between The Two Of Us ]
[ That’s How Things Was ]
[ Now I Can’t Stop Writing About You ]
[ I Miss You So Much, Times Two ]
[ I Miss You! ]
[ I Miss You! ]
[ Where Did The Time Go, How Was It Spent? ]
[ I Truly Miss You, Brother Brent ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(534)▪︎[ The Footprint … 6•30•2021 ]
[ Who Can Can Catch Lightning In A Bottle? ]
[ Is That The Daredevil Who Is Quick With The Throttle? ]
[ Driving Through Town As Fast As He Can ]
[ When You Think Of Him ]
[ You Could Say That He’s A Man’s Man ]
[ Is He The Only One That Can Leave A Footprint In The Dust? ]
[ Is Being A Daredevil A Must? ]
[ No, It’s Not, Is What You Say ]
[ You Try To Leave Your Foot Print Every Day ]
[ In The Sand, Clay, Mud Or Dirt ]
[ You Would Even Give A Man In Need, Your Own Shirt ]
[ Off Of Your Back ]
[ If You Really Think About It ]
[ That Was Just One Shirt Out Of A Big Stack ]
[ One Way That You Could Leave Your Footprint Is By What
You Can Give ]
[ You Also Can Leave An Impression By How You Live ]
[ Do You Walk, Take A Bus Or Ride The Train? ]
[ Or Do You Stay In The House & Refrain ]
[ & Play Games? ]
[ With People With Various Last Names? ]
[ If You Had One Wish, What Would It Be? ]
[ Would You Wish That One Wish ]
[ Would Turn Into Three? ]
[ & So On & So On Until Everybody Will Have One ]
[ Letting Everyone To Have Some Fun ]
[ One Of Their Own ]
[ Maybe Some Would Wish For A Million Dollars ]
[ While Some Would Just Want An Ice Cream Cone ]
[ Leaving Your Handprint On This Earth ]
[ Does Not Prove Your Worth ]
[ Now Leaving Memories In Lots Of Different People’s
Mind ]
[ Is The Best Kind ]
[ Of Footprint ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(519)▪︎[ Who Is There? … 6•25•2021 ]
[ As I Sit Here Trying To Pull On My White Socks ]
[ I Here The Tic-Tok ]
[ Of My Wall Clock’s]
[ They Are The Only Sounds That I Can Hear ]
[ & That, Right There]
[ Just Illuminates My Fear ]
[ I Don’t Expect To Hear Another Sound ]
[ Because There Is Not Another Soul Around ]
[ @ This Time ]
[ That I Am Sucking On This Lime ]
[ That, In Itself, Makes My Sucker ]
[ Pucker ]
[ Would This Have The Same Affect On You? ]
[ If Not ]
[ What Would It Do? ]
[ If So ]
[ Would You Even Have The Remotest Clue? ]
[ Would It Burn All Of The Way Down? ]
[ Would It Burn The Whole Time That You, Would Be In Town? ]
[ Would Those Answers Force Me To Use A Different Noun ]
[ Or Two ]
[ Hmmm, Am I Picking Up On A Totally Obscure Social Cue? ]
[ I Don’t Know About This ]
[ Let Me Look On My List ]
[ Should I Care ]
[ If It Is Not There? ]
[ Well That Makes Me Feel Like I Need To Go ]
[ So, If You Say So ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(514)▪︎[ You Need To Choose … 6•24•2021 ]
[ Sometimes In Life You Get What You Want But Not What
You Need ]
[ Why Do You Always Follow? ]
[ When You Really Want To Lead? ]
[ You Have More Talent In Your Little Finger ]
[ Than Most People Have In Their Whole Existence ]
[ You Don’t Want To Step Out ]
[ So, You Just Stand Back & Linger ]
[ Just Wanting To Blend Into The Crowd ]
[ Letting Your Thoughts Drift Into The Clouds ]
[ Thoughts That Could Be The Keys To The Universe ]
[ But You Never Want To Transverse ]
[ On Over ]
[ Just To Converse ]
[ Even For Awhile ]
[ Because That Was Never Your Style ]
[ When Are You Going To Find Your Niche? ]
[ That Should Be Your Number (1) Wish ]
[ But You Would Rather Walk A Mile ]
[ Than To Come Forward & Show Your Guile ]
[ To Be Able To Get Out Of The Muddle You Were In ]
[ Then You Would Have To Show The Puddle That You
Fell In & When ]
[ Others Would Tell You To Sit Down & Think ]
[ & Slow Down The Drink ]
[ A Shot Here & A Straight Shot Of Tequila There ]
[ Sometimes You Get So Drunk ]
[ You Give Off The Feeling That You Don’t Really Care ]
[ That Is Not A Good Look On You ]
[ & It Looks Like You Have A Mirror With Some Residue ]
[ Of Some Sort Of Powdery Substance That Looks White ]
[ Making People Wonder If You Are Doing Things That Aren’t
Right? ]
[ You Do Know That Snorting Meth ]
[ Only Leads To Death ]
[ If You Don’t, You Should ]
[ If You Did, You Would ]
[ If You Are, You Could ]
[ Know About That ]
[ Care About That ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(513)▪︎[ Life … 6•23•2021 ]
[ What Makes The World Go ‘Round For You These Days? ]
[ Is It Being Able To Touch Others In Different Ways? ]
[ Are You The Friend & Protector, So Others Can Feel Safe? ]
[ From Assaults, Robberies & Rape? ]
[ Are You The Rock? ]
[ Because You Have A Good Shoulder To Lean On Around
The Clock? ]
[ Who Listens To You When You Need To Talk? ]
[ Do You Have To Go Outside & Write ( S.O.S. ) In Chalk? ]
[ To Get Someone’s Attention? ]
[ Is That The Only Way That You Are Able To Get Some
Affection? ]
[ What Is Your Calling In Life? ]
[ What Do You See As Your Guiding Light? ]
[ Who Was The Person That Taught You Wrong From Right? ]
[ You Cannot Sit Back & Expect The World To Come @ You ]
[ Sometimes You Get As Much As You Do ]
[ Not As Much As You Think That You Are Due ]
[ There Is A Big Problem ]
[ When Some Sit Back & Think That The World Should Go To
Them ]
[ The World Does Not Owe You A Dime ]
[ & You Cannot Ever Stock Up On Time ]
[ One Continuum In Life Is That Time Never Stops ]
[ & Everybody Drops ]
[ It Is Just A Matter Of When ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(160)▪︎[ The Little Old Lady … 2•22•2021 ]
[ One Day Old Mother Hubbard ]
[ Went & Opened Her Cupbourds ]
[ Only To Find It Completely Bare ]
[ Of Socks ]
[ Or Underwear ]
[ Since She Had No Food, That Is What She Tried To
Put In There ]
[ Because Of The Shortages Of Food ]
[ @ The Supermarket ]
[ It Always Put Her In An Extremely Bad Mood ]
[ Food Has Become Scarce, Especially Of Her Favorite
Vegetables ]
[ Only The Earliest Shoppers Were Able ]
[ To Get What They Wanted ]
[ Then Would Come Outside Towards The Line To Get In ]
[ & Be Happy & Walk Away After They Taunted ]
[ Every Person In Line ]
[ Messing With Everyone’s Mind ]
[ So The Old Lady Went To Her Neighbor, Scooby-Doo ]
[ When He Opened The Door, She Said ( HI, I AM YOUR
NEIGHBOR, THE ONE WHO LIVES IN THE SHOE ) ]
[ Scooby-Doo Said ( YES I KNOW WHO YOU ARE ) ]
[ ( YOU ARE THE LADY WHO OWNS THAT BEAUTIFUL
CAR ) ]
[ She Said, ( YES, DID YOU KNOW? ) ]
[ ( THAT IT IS A ’65 GTO? ) ]
[ After Making Some Small Talk ]
[ Then Getting The Food That She Came There For ]
[ She Set Out For Walk ]
[ Back To Her Front Door ]
[ Then Fred & Barney Drove By Really Fast ]
[ She Thought ( THEY ARE SUCH THE CUTE COUPLE ) ]
[ She Was Glad That Fred Could Get Over Barney’s
Abusive Past ]
[ & Many Years Ago She Was Skeptical That Their
Marriage Would Ever Last ]
[ She Was Glad That They Got Away From Those Cheating ]
[ & Thieving ]
[ Wives ]
[ Once Those Two Became Neighbors ]
[ They Started To Ruin Fred & Barney’s Lives ]
[ & Pebbles Used To Be Such The Cute & Well Behaved
Child ]
[ But Once Wilma Got Custody Of Her In The Divorce ]
[ She Started Doing Drugs & Running Around Being Wild ]
[ But Bam Bam Turned Out To Be A Very Upstanding
Guy ]
[ He’s The Kind Of Man That Would Never Steal Or Lie ]
[ Then On Her Way Home ]
[ She Walked By Several Neighbors That She Did Not Know ]
[ One Of Them Seemed Lazy ]
[ One Of Them Looked Shady ]
[ & The Other One Acted All Out Crazy ]
[ When The Old Lady Got Back To Her Shoe, She Put Her
Groceries On The Bare Shelves ]
[ If & When She Replaces Her Underwear & Socks ]
[ She Would Put Them Somewhere Else ]
[ It Was Amazing What Scooby-Doo Put In A Bag For Her ]
[ Once She Gets Her SSI Disability Check ]
[ She Will Make Him A Dinner, That’s For Sure ]
[ When She Held Her Full Cupboards Open, She Was Amazed @ The
Sight ]
[ She Thought That She Would Cook A Good Meal For Scooby-
Doo Tomorrow Night ]
[ But Then She Heard Someone Banging On The Front Door ]
[ & She Wondered Who Could That Be ]
[ So She Grabbed Her Mossburg Double Barreled Shotgun &
Walked Across The Floor ]
[ To Look Through The Peephole To See ]
[ It Was A Very Drunk Easter Bunny That Was Kicking The Door
With His Big Feet ]
[ He Was Drunk & He Had The Wrong House ]
[ Since He Lived Around The Corner On A Different Street ]
[ But She Still Invited Him For A Good Meal ]
[ & When She Was Cooking ]
[ She Dumped A Whole Bottle Of Poison On The Veal ]
[ She Sat Down To Wait ]
[ As He Ate ]
[ The Poison Finally Worked & He Slumped Over Dead On His
Seat ]
[ I Guess He Needed To Be Aware Of What He Would Eat ]
[ The Old Lady Remembered That The Easter Bunny Never Paid Back
A Single One Of His Loans ]
[ When The Bills Came Due 3 Months Ago ]
[ She Almost Lost Everything She Owned ]
[ So She Has Always Gone By The Saying That ( REVENGE IS
BETTER WHEN SERVED COLD ) ]
[ When She Looked Down @ The Dead Bunny ]
[ She Quietly Said ( YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD ) ]
[ ( TO ALWAYS DO WHAT YOU’re TOLD! ) ]
[ So When The Old Lady Had The Help Of Her 3 Eldest
Children ]
[ It Was No Problem ]
[ To Drag Him ]
[ Into The Back Yard By The Huge Garden ]
[ Then They All Got Their Shovels To Dig A Fourth Grave ]
[ All Of The Money Their Mother Gives Them, They Like To Save ]
[ Once A Month The Old Lady Takes Them To The Store To Buy
New Toys ]
[ She Loved To Hear Their Laughter & Joy ]
[ Since This Is The Fourth Grave It Was Not All That Hard ]
[ & There Is Room For Plenty More Since They Have A Big Back
Yard ]
[ The Other Graves Belong To The Three Little Grown-Up Pigs ]
[ She Found Out Their Marijuana Growing Operation Was Getting
Really Big ]
[ & They Told The Little Old Lady That They Didn’t Care ]
[ To Share ]
[ So She Invited The Whole Troop ]
[ Over For Dinner ]
[ & She Served Them Each, A Big Bowl Of Poisoned Tomato
Soup ]
[ The Biggest Little Pig Was The One That Dropped Last ]
[ The Other Two Went Really Fast ]
[ When The FBI Goes Looking For The Fourth Missing Man In A
Month ]
[ Nobody Talks To Them ]
[ So It Makes Things Tough ]
[ All They Know Is That Four Men Have Gone Missing In This
Close Knit Neighborhood ]
[ & The Chances Of Solving The Cases Does Not Look Very
Good ]
[ 4 Down, But There Is Still One More Chump ]
[ That She Wants To Add ]
[ An Eyesore Of A House Across The Street Hides An Extremely
Horrible Man Called Donald Trump ]
[ & What Really Doesn’t Sound Too Bad ]
[ Is If She Could Pull Off The Ultimate Bonus ]
[ By Adding Every Single Person That Calls Him Dad ]
[ But Then Will She Stop? ]
[ Making Men In The Neighborhood Drop? ]
[ That Still Remains To Be Seen ]
[ Because The Choices Are Getting Pretty Lean ]
[ But The Neighbors Never Think That It Is A Big Loss ]
[ When Men Disappear ]
[ After Picking That Sweet Old Lady To Cross ]
[ She Is The Protector Of Them All ]
[ Because When Or If Something Goes Wrong ]
[ All They Have To Do Is Give That Sweet Old Lady A Call ]
[ & Just Like The Old Lady Is Good @ Bowling ]
[ A Simple Call To Her Gets The Ball Rolling ]
[ When The Little Old Lady Moved In More Than (40) Years
Ago ]
[ She Wanted All Her Neighbors To Know ]
[ Nobody Messes With Her Or Her Friends ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]