[ Anger Seems To Be A Constant Part In My Life ]
[ Be It @ Me ]
[ Or From Me ]
[ Affecting My Son Or My Wife ]
[ Names Can Be Called Or Felt ]
[ It Can Feel Like ]
[ The Tightening Of A Belt ]
[ & If You Check ]
[ It Would Be Around My Neck ]
[ Either Way, It Hurts ]
[ Easy To Feel & Give ]
[ As If It Is Pulling @ My Shirt ]
[ Anger Can Tear Couples & Families Apart ]
[ Some Angry Comments ]
[ Are Meant To Pierce My Heart ]
[ Or Are They Meant? ]
[ To Stay In The Head ]
[ Instead? ]
[ Either Reason Or Way ]
[ Piercing Words ]
[ Find A Way To Stay ]
[ & Be Heard ]
[ Ping Ponging Back & Forth ]
[ Heading South ]
[ Then Heading North ]
[ Which Direction Does It Hurt The Most ]
[ Hardening The Heart, Like A Piece Of Burnt Toast ]
[ Not Just Crunchy Around The Edges ]
[ But It Won’t Leave Me Teetering On Any Ledges ]
[ When Can I Look Around? ]
[ To Find Solid Ground? ]
[ Instead Of Living On My Seat ]
[ I Want To Finish Life Standing On My Own Two Feet ]
[ Is That Dream On ]
[ The Nearest Horizon ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ 2021 Stories ]
(178)▪︎[ Desperation … 2•27•2021 ]
[ Right Now, It Seems That Desperation Fills The
Air ]
[ & I Am Finding It Hard To Care ]
[ I Don’t Want To Succumb To This Virus ]
[ & Lay Down In Front Of A Speeding Bus ]
[ This Virus Has Complete Control ]
[ & It Has Me Trying To Claw Myself Out Of This Hole ]
[ Will Someone Throw Me A Rope? ]
[ Will Anyone Put Their Arm Around Me & Help Me Cope? ]
[ Giving Me Empathy ]
[ Not Pity ]
[ Or Sympathy ]
[ I Need A Phone Call From My Best Friend ]
[ So I Am Not Alone Towards The End ]
[ The End Of The Day, Week Or My Life? ]
[ Will My Eyes Stay Open While I Am Watching The Fading
Light? ]
[ Will My Wife ]
[ Help Me Fight? ]
[ Sometimes I Feel That She Is Oblivious To What I Am
Going Through ]
[ Because She Has A Handful Of Her Own Problems
Too ]
[ So She Might Have Blinders On, That May Narrow Her
Sight ]
[ She Has No Ability To See From Side To Side ]
[ So I Am Back To Being Alone ]
[ Eating Alone ]
[ Sleeping Alone ]
[ Drinking Alone ]
[ & … Dieing Alone ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(163)▪︎[ Question Your Intuition … 2•23•2021 ]
[ Some People Have Shown That They Will Stick With You When
Things Are Bad ]
[ Some People Try To Cheer You Up Whenever You Are Sad ]
[ Those People Are The Ones That You Should Always
Consider Your Friends ]
[ Through All Of The Good Or Bad ]
[ They Never Say ( IT JUST DEPENDS ) ]
[ Depends On What? ]
[ On The Feeling That They Have In Their Gut? ]
[ Their Gut Should Say To Help & Stand By Me ]
[ Not ( WELL, LET’s WAIT & SEE ) ]
[ See What Kind Of Trouble I’m In? ]
[ Or See If This Could Turn Out To Be A ( WIN-WIN )? ]
[ Since When Did This Type Of Thinking Start? ]
[ When Did You Start Playing This Part? ]
[ The Part Of ( THE HESITATING GUY OR GIRL ) ]
[ Or Is This Just Something That You Are Giving A Whirl? ]
[ Why Do Some Stay? ]
[ While Others Run Away? ]
[ Maybe It Is What They Have Inside ]
[ Maybe They Tell Others They Courageous & Loyal ]
[ But Then You Find They Lied ]
[ Lies That Can Hurt & Scar ]
[ When Others Figure Out Who They Really Are ]
[ Then There Is A Major Disappointment & Let Down ]
[ So You Question Your Decision ]
[ To Ever Keep Them Around ]
[ All You Have To Say Is ( NO MORE ) ]
[ Then Show Them The Door! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(158)▪︎[ Never The First … 2•21•2021 ]
[ A ][° 158 °][ NEVER THE FIRST … 2•21•2021 ]
[ Why Don’t The Good Guys Ever Win? ]
[ & The Bad Guy Can Always Walk Away From Their Sins? ]
[ It Is Never Fair ]
[ That The Good Guy Is Always Left Standing Back There ]
[ Left @ The Starting Line Holding The Bag ]
[ They Are Always The Last One That Is Picked When Playing
The Game Of Tag ]
[ Why Does The Good Guy Always Finish Last ]
[ Even Though They Don’t Have Any Negativity In Their Past ]
[ First Place Is Not In The All-Cosmic Universal Plans ]
[ Because The Good Guy Is Damned ]
[ Never Having The Slightest Chance ]
[ To Do The Champions Dance ]
[ The Guy Will Never See ]
[ A Picture Of Himself Proudly ]
[ Holding That 1st Place Trophy ]
[ But Everytime The Evil Person Prevails ]
[ While The Good Guys Try, But Always Fails ]
[ Given An ( A ) For His Effort ]
[ To Show On The Report ]
[ The Evil Person Is Like A Tornado Running Through A
Trailor Park ]
[ Breaking Out All Of The Lights ]
[ Turning The Sky Dark ]
[ But Then It’s Gone ]
[ Moving On ]
[ The Evil Person Does Seem To Have The Ability ]
[ To Take Any Personal Responsibility ]
[ No Moral Compass There ]
[ No Signs Of Care ]
[ Anywhere ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(154)▪︎[ A Big Handbasket … 2•20•2021 ]
[ Is America Going To Hell In A Handbasket? ]
[ Rapidly Sending Most Of Us To Stay In A Casket? ]
[ I Did Not Say ( TO LIVE IN ONE ) ]
[ Because That Is Not How Things Are Done ]
[ When Alive, We Must Have Air ]
[ When We Are Dead, Few Really Care ]
[ That Is How We Are, Now As A Society ]
[ Nobody Really See’s ]
[ You Or Me ]
[ We Are Seen As Strangers With A Mask Covering Our
Faces ]
[ We Are Never Recognized By Who Goes To What Places ]
[ We Are Seen, Then Forgotten ]
[ We No Longer Recall Where We Have Been ]
[ With Who & When? ]
[ We Have No Identities & No Names ]
[ If We Get Sick, We Look For Someone To Blame ]
[ But Isn’t It Crystal Clear ]
[ That We Should Lay Blame On The Face We See In The
Mirror? ]
[ As A Whole, People Do Not Like The Finger Pointed
@ Their Own Chest ]
[ They Believe That Blaming Someone Else ]
[ Is Always What Is Best ]
[ Personal Responsibility Is So Tough For Most To
Swallow ]
[ Nobody Wants To Lead ]
[ & Most Just Want To Follow ]
[ Follow The Leader Down The Path ]
[ Towards The Cliff ]
[ Forgetting About The Past ]
[ That Made Our Thinking Rigid & Stiff ]
[ @ The End Of The Day What Has Been Accomplished? ]
[ Was Their Anything Crossed Off Of Your Wish ]
[ List? ]
[ Or Did You Just Stay Like A Blind Sheep? ]
[ Walking Through Life ]
[ In A Continuous Sleep? ]
[ Young & Naive Like A Little Lamb ]
[ Not Being Polite Enough ]
[ To Say ( NO SIR ) Or ( YES MA’AM ) ]
[ Not Making The Best Of Your Time On This Earth ]
[ Starting To Die Since Birth ]
[ Never Getting Your Money’s Worth ]
[ Oh Well ]
[ This Whole World Is Going To Hell ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(151)▪︎[ Not Always … 2•19•2021 ]
[ When Someone Sets Out To Write A Speech ]
[ Are They Out To Teach? ]
[ Or Preach? ]
[ Some Do Neither ]
[ Some Could Use The Help From A Good Teacher ]
[ Were The Words All Wrong? ]
[ Or Was The Message Not Very Strong? ]
[ Some Messages Meaning Is Hidden From Plain
Sight ]
[ Some Cause A Fight ]
[ Because Those That Are Completely Wrong Think
That They Are In The Right ]
[ Some Do Not Have A Message @ All ]
[ But Who Actually Makes That Call? ]
[ The Writer? ]
[ Or The Reader? ]
[ The One With The Yellow Highlighter? ]
[ Or The Cheater? ]
[ The Cheater Is Always The One That Doesn’t Like
To Get Caught ]
[ They Hate Being Put On The Spot ]
[ When Speeches Are Made Do They Also Need
To Be Heard? ]
[ Must You Hang On Every Word? ]
[ No ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(020)▪︎[ Just Don’t … 1•7•2021 ]
[ Don’t Back Down ]
[ Don’t Make A Sound ]
[ When You look Around ]
[ Be Thankful For What You Have Found ]
[ Treasure The People Who Have Decided To Stay ]
[ Wave Goodbye To Those Who Chose To Walk Away ]
[ You Should Never Spend One More Minute Of Your Time ]
[ Or Spend One More Dime ]
[ On Those Fair Weather Friends ]
[ Because When A Storm Starts ]
[ Their Care & Concern Ends ]
[ They Always Want & They Just Take ]
[ They Would They Would Even Eat The Last Two Blueberry
Muffins That I Baked ]
[ Oftentimes What They Give, Is Always Attached By Invisible
Strings ]
[ You Just Want To Cut Those Things ]
[ & Then, Give Those Thoughts Wings ]
[ & Without Worry ]
[ This Is The End Of This Very Short Story ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(440)▪︎[ Rise Up, Down Frown … 5•2•2020 ]
[ Do You Know What Starts Up But Eventually Goes Down? ]
[ It’s The Smile Of A Clown ]
[ When It Turns Into A Frown ]
[ Why Are Clowns Either Glad? ]
[ Or Sad? ]
[ There’s Not One Of Them In-Between ]
[ I’ve Even Seen Ones ]
[ Who Looked Angry & Mean ]
[ The One’s Who Are Not There For Fun ]
[ Sometimes Come Alive In My Dreams ]
[ Then I Find That The Screams Are Coming From Within
Me ]
[ It’s Because Of What Those Nightmares Make Me See ]
[ It Is Not A Fun Ride Inside My Head ]
[ But I Cannot Disengage From It ]
[ Before I Go To Bed ]
[ Sleepless Nights Have Become Commonplace ]
[ & It’s Starting To Show On My Face ]
[ Falling Asleep ]
[ Turns Into A Race ]
[ Before The Sunrise ]
[ I Need My Sleep ]
[ To Stay Witty & Wise ]
[ When I Do Get Up, My Eyelids Are Heavy ]
[ Sometimes I Put My Arm Out To Balance ]
[ & Keep Me Steady ]
[ Then It Is A Challenge ]
[ To Get To The Phone To Call Eddy ]
[ I Want Eddy To Come Over Quick ]
[ Being Around Him ]
[ Is Always A Kick ]
[ He’s The Opposite Of Nancy’s Son Jim ]
[ Because Jim Has Always Been A Dick ]
[ He Always Has Been Mean To Every One Of My Friends ]
[ When He Shows Up ]
[ The Fun Always Ends ]
[ Way Too Soon ]
[ He Sucks All Of The Air Out ]
[ Like A Deflating Balloon ]
[ Just Like A Sonic Boom ]
[ That’s How Fast The Air Leaves The Room ]
[ Forever To Be Sealed ]
[ In An Ancient Egyptian Tomb ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(439)▪︎[ It Reminds Me … 5•1•2020 ]
[ Somedays Things Around Me ]
[ Remind Me Of The Day I Took My Vows ]
[ I Didn’t Know How Wonderful This Would Turn Out To Be ]
[ Saying My Vows Did Not Get Me A { HOW TO } Booklet As A Prize ]
[ Everything That Happened ]
[ Came As A Big Surprise ]
[ On Page One ]
[ The Topic Is ]
[ { HOW TO GET THINGS DONE? } ]
[ What If I Did THIS Instead Of Doing THAT? ]
[ How Will I Know ]
[ Where She Likes To Put The Used Bathmat? ]
[ Does She Hang All Of Her Clothes ]
[ Or Does She Fold Them ]
[ Only She Knows ]
[ But I Eventually Found After That First Time ]
[ & I Found Out That She Likes A Single Lemon ]
[ Better Than She Like Limes ]
[ Now I’ve Even Learned To Do THAT Instead Of Doing THIS ]
[ What I’ve Learned Through The Years ]
[ Is That There’s No Such Thing As { MARITAL BLISS } ]
[ Every Couple Has There Ups & Downs ]
[ But Does Every Husband Do Stupid Things ]
[ That Make Them Like A Clown? ]
[ I Don’t Think That I’ve Screwed Up That Bad ]
[ I’d Like To Think That I’ve Given Her More Glad ]
[ Days ]
[ Than Ones That Left Her Sad ]
[ We Are Not In Wonderland Looking For Perfection ]
[ We Just Need To Stop The Talk ]
[ That Sounds Like A Correction ]
[ & Have Much More Talks That Make A Connection ]
[ Much Less Correct ]
[ & Much More Connect ]
[ I Put My Wife Way Way Up Above ]
[ & First ]
[ I Want To Fill Her Up With Love ]
[ So It Quenches Her Thirst ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(446)▪︎[ Just Show Them … 5•27•2021 ]
[ Sometimes It Is So Hard To Feel Capable, When Others
Keep Saying That You Are Not ]
[ In The Bigger Picture ]
[ That Makes You Feel That You Are Seen As Just A Dot ]
[ Non-Existent ]
[ Insufficient ]
[ Does Not Measure Up ]
[ Doesn’t Make The Cut ]
[ You Have Heard Them All ]
[ Because You Try & Fall ]
[ But, You Get Back-Up Everytime ]
[ You Show That You Are Pretty Good @ Saving Dimes ]
[ How Do You Ever Know That You Have Finally Become
Successful ]
[ When Others Sound & Are, So Hurtful ]
[ Sometimes The Words ]
[ Said To You, Are The Worst You Have Ever Heard ]
[ ( YOU ARE WORTHLESS ) ]
[ ( YOU’ll NEVER MAKE IT, YOU SHOULD JUST GIVE UP, NO
TALENT ) ]
[ ( YOU ARE TOO SHORT, YOU’re USELESS ) ]
[ You Have Heard Those Comments Over & Over Again
Multiplied By Four ]
[ Each & Everytime It Rocks You ]
[ To Your Core ]
[ What Are The Words Meant For? ]
[ If Not To Cut You In Half? ]
[ Something To Give Them & Their Friends A Laugh ]
[ Nothing Shuts Up Critics Faster Than Being Successful ]
[ But, Not Becoming Boastful ]
[ Becoming Successful Through Alot Of Hard Work ]
[ Let Them Be Who They Are … A Bunch Of Jerks ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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