(859)▪︎[ Worry On The Brain … 10•10•2020 ]

[ Worry Is Encompassing My Mind ]
[ I Can’t Keep My Thoughts On A Straight Line ]

[ The Threat Is Already In The House ]
[ That Is Why I Am So Full Of Doubt ]

[ I Surely Bet ]
[ That He Sees Me As The Biggest Threat ]

[ Because My Voice Is The Loudest One That He Hears ]
[ It Is My Voice & Ideas ]
[ That Causes All Of His Tears ]

[ I Won’t Back Down From What I’ve Said ]
[ I Am Not Going To Change Things Instead ]
[ Even If He Wants My Voice To Be Dead ]

[ I Will Look Him In His Eyes ]

[ & Tell Him That I Do Not Want To Hear Anymore Of His Lies ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(854)▪︎[ How Is It Now? … 10•8•2020 ]

[ Have We Now As A Society Made Love & Compassion ]
[ Out Of Fashion? ]

[ You Never Want To Be Seen ]
[ Wearing Your Heart On Your Sleeve ]
[ Being Afraid That Someone Would Be So Mean ]
[ Making It So Uncomfortable That You Would Want To Leave ]

[ Leaving The Situation Behind You ]
[ Because You Picked Up On That Obvious Social Cue ]

[ Society As A Whole ]
[ Has Lost Touch With It’s Soul ]
[ Making It So Hard ]
[ To Figure Out Your Role ]

[ You Can’t Tell If That Stranger With The Mask Is Happy Or Sad ]
[ Is Their Day Going Well? ]
[ Or Have Things Started Going Bad? ]

[ Most People Do Not Have Smiling Eyes ]
[ Some People Hide Behind A Mountain Of Lies ]

[ So There Are No Facial Expressions To Read ]
[ There Is No Look To See ]
[ If Someone Is In Need ]

[ People Used To Acknowledge Others With A Smile & A Nod
Of Their Head ]
[ Now They Stay Motionless Instead ]

[ Nobody Smiles Or Says ( HI ) ]
[ Some People Take Offense If You Look @ Them Eye To Eye ]

[ Some Take That As Being Aggressive ]
[ But If You Look Down Are You Being Submissive? ]

[ So People Don’t Look @ All ]
[ They Would Much Rather Look @ A Blank Wall ]

[ Look @ The Cracks On The Wall Instead Of The Wrinkles On
Someone’s Face ]
[ & Never Assume Someone’s Age, Gender Or Race ]
[ Anonymity Has Taken Identities Place ]

[ Who Was That Masked Man Standing To Your Right? ]
[ Would You Be Able To Tell If There Was Better Light? ]

[ How Is Society Going To Come Back Together After This
Particular Tumultuous & Polarizing Election? ]
[ Who Is Going To Lead & Point Us In The Right Direction? ]
[ Will Society Ever Have The Same Connection? ]

[ We Have Emotionless Faces ]
[ Anger Between Some Races ]
[ & In The World ]
[ We Are Not Allowed To Travel In Some Places ]

[ Does Wearing A Mask Protect Others From You ]
[ Or You From Others ]
[ If You Caught The Virus Too ]
[ Would You Then Care If You Infected Your Mother? ]

[ Everybody Makes Their Own Individual Choices ]
[ Then Don’t Care About Other People’s Voices ]

[ People Used To Be Happier & Relaxed ]
[ Now More People Are Mad & Feel Taxed ]

[ Now Showing Emotion Comes Across As Being Weak ]
[ & You Come Across As Being Meek ]

[ But For What It’s Worth ]
[ Isn’t It Written Somewhere ( THAT THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT
THE EARTH )? ]~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(844)▪︎[ It Is Society Now … 10•3•2020 ]

[ Anger & Hate Seems To Be All Around Us ]
[ Right Now ]
[ In A Packed Airplane, Or A Crowded Bus ]

[ Is That Man Angry @ Me Under That Mask ]
[ I Don’t Want To Get Close Enough To Him For Me To Ask ]

[ When Another Person Wears A Mask It Is So Hard
To Tell ]
[ What He Is Thinking ]
[ He Might Be Telling Me To Go To Hell ]
[ Without Blinking ]

[ & There Never Should Be A Time Or Place ]
[ For Someone To Hate ]
[ Because Of The Color Of Another’s Face ]

[ I Think That It Borders On Dumb ]
[ When Some Self-Righteous People ]
[ Think They Know What Other People Have Been Through ]
[ Or Where They Come From ]

[ What Really Makes Me Sick ]
[ Is The Hate In Politics ]
[ All Because Of The Candidate That I Pick ]

[ That Is Not A Subject That I Talk To A Stranger About ]
[ There Is Always Doubt ]
[ That Someone Wouldn’t Want To Scream Or Shout ]

[ About Their Preference ]
[ Some People Just Want To Argue About The Difference ]

[ In Each Candidate ]
[ I’ll Just Sit Back & Wait ]
[ & Not Take Their Bait ]

[ My Brother Used To Try That During Our Phone Calls So
Many Times ]
[ Now The Only Time I Can Talk To Him ]
[ Is When I Write My Rhymes ]

[ People Are Angrier & More Hateful Than Any Other Time
That I’ve Seen ]
[ Just Read Some Of The Comments After Some Posts On FB ]
[ People Can Really Be Mean ]

[ I Don’t Want To Live My Life Like That ]
[ I Also Refuse To Be Treated ]
[ Like Someone’s Doormat ]

[ It Seems Like The Saying ( LOVE THY NEIGHBOR ) Flew
Out The Window ]
[ Many Years Ago ]

[ The Whole Idea Left Through The Nearest Exit ]
[ It Didn’t Wait To Politely Walk Out The Front Door ]
[ Because Most People Don’t Want To Live It ]
[ Anymore ]

[ Not Everyone Says ( NOPE ) ]
[ To That Way Of Living ]
[ There Still Is Hope ]
[ That People Still Gets Satisfaction By Sharing & Giving ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(052)▪︎[ Money Does Not Always Work … 1•15•2021 ]

[ Does Money Actually Buy Happiness? ]
[ Does It Matter To Others ]
[ If You Have More Or Less? ]

[ Then The People Next Door ]
[ Sometimes Prople Think That Less Is More ]

[ Less Migraines Shooting Through Your Head ]
[ So You Have More Happiness In Your Life
     Instead ]

[ Sometimes When You Have Less Money ]
[ You Have Much Better Friends ]
[ Maybe You Won’t Have Any ]
[ When The Deposits Ends ]

[ If Money Does Not Buy Happiness, Can It Make
     You Numb ]
[ If You Don’t Have Any ]
[ Can It Get You Some? ]

[ Some Of This & Some Of That ]
[ You Could Have A Friend Named Chris ]
[ & Lose A Friend Named Matt ]

[ Actually Sometimes You Are Much Happier When
     You Are Broke ]
[ & Have No Hope ]

[ & When You Are Living In Your Expensive Car ]
[ That Is You Find Out Who Your True Friends Are ]

[ & They Show Some Feeling ]
[ & Empathy ]
[ Then They Feed You A Good Meal ]
[ After They Post Bail Because You Were Arrested For
     Stealing ]

[ But Then They Drop A Big ( OUCH! ) ]
[ When They Kick You Back To Your Car ]
[ Because They Refuse To Let You Crash On Their Couch ]

[ Back To The Parking Lot You Go ]
[ So ]
[ There’s Another Person That You Will Refuse To
     Say You Know ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(1040)▪︎[ Before The Day Is Done … 12•10•2020 ]

[ Every Day, You Have The Choice Of Whether To
   Laugh Or Cry @ Night ]
[ The Choice Makes All Of The Difference ]
[ When It Comes To Facing The Morning Light ]

[ One May Make You Tired & One Could Put Your
   Mind @ Rest ]
[ Depending On The Circumstances ]
[ Sometimes It Would Be Hard To Figure Out Which
   Emotion Would Be The Best ]

[ Sometimes Circumstances In Your Life Are Completely
   Out Of Your Control ]
[ & There Are Incidents That Occur That Can
   Hurt You ]
[ Like It Puts A Hole ]
[ In Your Soul ]

[ Those Are The Ones That You Do Not Want To
   Remember ]
[ But Sometimes An Incident That Happens In Early
   January ]
[ Can Still Be Fresh In Your Mind Through The 31st
Of The Next December ]

[ @ Times Your Heart May Forgive But Your Mind
   Will Not Let ]
[ Your Memory To Ever Forget ]
[ Those Are The Times ]
[ When You Wonder What That Saying That Combines
   The Two Ever Meant ]

[ When Your Soul Hurts ]
[ Your Mind Will Search ]

[ For Something To Help You Heal ]
[ Anything That Even Remotely Seems Real ]
[ Then, Something Good To Make You Feel ]

[ Whole Again ]
[ But You Can Never Control When ]
[ That Will Ever Begin ]

[ When You Feel Knocked Down ]
[ Don’t Have A Meltdown ]
[ While On The Ground ]

[ Up Is The Only Direction To Go ]
[ Even If You Have To Take It Slow ]
[ Just Know ]

[ That You Must Always Get Back Up ]
[ Don’t Breakup ]
[ Burnup ]
[ Or Give Up ]
[ No, Stand Up ]

[ After You Fall ]
[ Then Give It Your All ]
[ Before You Make The Call ]

[ To Call It A Day ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(1023)▪︎[ Set Adrift … 12•6•2020 ]

[ Lost, Floating On The Sea Of Loneliness ]
[ Could I Ever Feel Less ]
[ Of This Emptiness ]

[ How Did I Get Here? ]
[ My Path Back To Fullfillness Has Never Been
   All That Clear ]

[ When I Came To A Fork In The Road I Thought
   I Turned In The Right Direction ]
[ Using Hindsight ]
[ I Would Make A Correction ]

[ I Thought Going Left Was Good ]
[ Maybe My Brain Misunderstood ]

[ The Bright, Yellow Yield Signs ]
[ Plus, When I Looked @ The Left Side ]
[ There Were No Lines ]

[ Maybe It Was That Way For A Reason ]
[ When I Looked To The Right ]
[ I Did Not Think That I Could Squeeze In ]

[ But Now I Float ]
[ On The Sea ]
[ Without A Single Paddle In My Boat ]

[ I Am @ The Mercy Of The Wind & The Current ]
[ This Problem Seems To Be Recurrent ]

[ Same Problem, But From A Different Issue ]
[ My Inner Strength Is As Strong As A Soft Kleenex
   Tissue ]

[ Flimsy & Easy To Rip To Shreads ]
[ Confusing, Like The Brain On Too Many Meds ]

[ Will I Be Forever Damned? ]
[ & Never Get Back To Dry Land? ]
[ Do I Lean Down ]
[ & Paddle With My Hand? ]

[ After Awhile ]
[ I Found That It Was Futile ]

[ Do I Hear The Sound Of A Storm Coming In? ]
[ When I Sense The Rain Begin ]
[ I Tell Myself ( I JUST CAN’t WIN! ) ]

[ Maybe This Will Be The Way My Life Will Go ]
[ Maybe Not ]
[ Probably So ]
[ Is All Of This Effort For Naught? ]
[ I Really Don’t Know ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(35)▪︎[ Look What Happened … 9•25•2020 ]

[ Have We As A Society Progressed? ]
[ Or Has This Virus Made Us Regress? ]

[ It Has Forced Us To Go Against Our Natural Strength ]
[ Which Is To Touch ]
[ Because We Must Stay Back From Each Other By
   @ Least An Arm’s Length ]

[ How Does This Affect The Relationship Between A
   Child & Their Elderly Grandmother? ]
[ When They Cannot Be In The Same Room With Each
   Other? ]

[ If We Come Upon A Stranger Within Our 6 Feet Space ]
[ Can You Tell If They Have A Smile Or Frown On Their Face? ]

[ We Try To Get Away As Fast As We Can ]
[ Because In Our Head We Want Our 6 Feet Of Space Back ]
[ No Matter If That Was A Woman Or Man ]

[ Have We Become A THAT Society? ]
[ Instead Of A Male Or Female Body? ]

[ How Did We Used To Make A Friend Out Of Stranger If
   We Were Out Walking? ]
[ Didn’t We Smile, Then Stop & Start Talking? ]

[ That Is Not How We Are Told To Now Do ]
[ We Are Told To Keep Walking ]
[ & Never Talk Or Meet Someone New ]

[ They Might Give Us The ‘VID ]
[ & When We Bring It Home To Our Family ]
[ We Would Stand There & Say ( OH, LOOK WHAT I DID! ) ]

[ We Bet We Won’t Do That Again Is What We’ll Think ]
[ We Could Have Ignored That Stranger With A Blink ]

[ Are We Going To Be Forced To Go Back To Quaratining If
   The Virus Numbers Keep Rising? ]
[ The Numbers Of New Cases Are Surprising ]

[ But Really, Should It Have Been A Surprise? ]
[ The Experts PREDICTED The Rise ]

[ Now The Two Biggest Family Holidays Are Almost Here ]
[ This Is That Time Of The Year ]
[ & The Precautions Are Totally Unclear ]
[ How Do People Tell Their Relatives That They Are
   People That They Can’t Be Near? ]

[ Without Having Feelings Hurt On Both Sides? ]
[ Or Without Making Up Lies? ]

[ Maybe A Little White Lie Would Be Best Overall ]
[ We Can Say We Can’t Come In An Email, Text Or
   The Old Fashioned Phone Call ]

[ The Virus Is Not The Bad Thing That We Want To Give
   Or Receive ]
[ Keeping People Healthy Is What We are Trying To Achieve ]

[ & Seek ]
[ To Keep ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(824)▪︎[ Greatness … 9•26•2020 ]

[ If You Are All Alone & Want To See Greatness, Then
Look In The Mirror ]
[ When There Is Nothing But Silence In The Room ]
[ What Do You Hear? ]

[ Is Your Only Choice? ]
[ Your Own Voice? ]

[ It Is The Only One That You Can Recognize ]
[ There Is No One Around To Demonize ]
[ Or Criticize ]

[ Why Are You Your Own Worse Enemy? ]
[ What Do Your Eyes See? ]
[ Have You Succeeded To Be All You Can Be? ]

[ What Was That, Can You Tell? ]
[ Did You Pick Yourself Up When You Fell? ]
[ If You Did ]
[ Then Why Do You Continue To Put Yourself Through Hell ]

[ Time After Time, Day In & Day Out ]
[ You Aced All Of Your Personal Tests ]
[ But You Still Feel That You Have No Clout ]
[ After Feeling That You Failed After Giving Your Best ]
[ You Hide In The Corner To Pout ]

[ What Happened ]
[ To Your Dream? ]
[ Was Your Fire Dampened ]
[ So You Were Just Left Surrounded By Steam ]

[ Look Deep Inside ]
[ Don’t Believe The One’s Who Lied ]
[ Honor Some Of The People Who Have Died ]

[ You Say Some ]
[ Because Some Of Your Family Member’s Words ]
[ Has Left You Feeling Numb ]

[ But That Was Then, This Is Now ]
[ Learn To Climb The Mountain ]
[ Instead Of Ending That Sentence With ( WHY OR HOW? ) ]

[ You May Ask ( WHEN? ) ]
[ Because You Never Saw It Then ]

[ You May Start ]
[ If You Have It In Your Heart ]
[ To Play The Main Part ]

[ In Your Own Life ]
[ Be Your Own Guiding Light ]
[ Learn To Fight ]
[ The Strife ]

[ & Never Stop ]
[ Until You Come Out Of The Whole Ordeal ]
[ On Top ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(1128)▪︎[ It Is Gone … 12•21•2020 ]

[It Seems Like All I Want To Do Lately
Is Sleep ]
[ Not Just A Light Nap ]
[ It Seems Like I Want To Go Deep ]

[ It Seems ]
[ That I Don’t Remember Any Of My Dreams ]

[ Though ]

[ That, I Know ]

[ Not Good Or Bad ]
[ No Happy Ones Or Ones That Are Sad ]

[ My Subconscious Is Left Floating On Air ]
[ Not A Single Thought There ]

[ I Have No Idea What Is Going On ]
[ I Don’t Know Why My Imagination Is Gone ]

[ It Just Is ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
‎ ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(1127)▪︎[ Those Inside Scars … 12•20•2020 ]

[ Why Do You Feel The Need To Hide ]
[ The Scars ]
[ From The Wounds, That Are On The Inside? ]

[ It Is Because Those Are The One’s That Hurts
     The Most ]
[ The Nerves Could Be As Fried As Burnt Toast ]

[ Ready To Crumble Or Break ]
[ Easy To Make ]
[ Not Easy To Fake ]

[ Covered By Lies ]
[ Not Easily Seen By Others Eyes ]

[ The Scars Are Hidden For Reasons Only You Would
     Know ]
[ They Will Be Hidden By Layers Of Clothes So They
     Don’t Show ]

[ It Is Not That You Are Embarrassed That They Are There ]
[ There Is Always A Story Behind Them ]
[ That You Don’t Care ]
[ To Share ]

[ The Scars Are Jagged & Deep ]
[ The Memories Of What Caused Them ]
[ Won’t Let You Sleep ]

[ You Fight Through The Nightmares That They Caused ]
[ Waiting To Hit The Play Button ]
[ After Your Life Was Put On Pause ]

[ Do The Days Ever Get Any Better? ]
[ Do The Clouds Ever Change The Weather? ]

[ The Answer Is Always ( YES ) ]
[ Sometimes You’ll Have To Clean Up This Mess ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
     ‎    ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]