[ Are You The One Child Whose Life Seems Full
Of Disappointments? ]
[ Full Of Comments ]
[ & Other People’s Statements? ]
[ Saying So Many Lies ]
[ Talking About Your Feet & Then Your Eyes ]
[ Why Are There So Many Critics? ]
[ Cynics? ]
[ Every Body Who Has A Belly Button ]
[ Has An Opinion ]
[ They Are About As Welcomed As The Tears You Get
From Cutting An Onion ]
[ Uncontrollable & Constant ]
[ Wishing That They Would Keep Their Comments ]
[ In Their Mind ]
[ Sometimes It Up To You To Remind ]
[ Them That You Find ]
[ That What They Have Been Saying Is Not Very Kind ]
[ Some People Do Not Care If They Constantly Offend ]
[ They Are The Ones That Are So Difficult To Defend ]
[ Those Are The One’s That You Show Them The Gate ]
[ & Even Because They Just Ate ]
[ You Don’t Have To Be Polite & Wait ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ 2021 Stories ]
(300)▪︎[ Who Are They … 4•10•2021 ]
[ Do You Ever Really Know That One Person That You
Love? ]
[ That One Person That You Are Always Thinking Of? ]
[ During Those Nights Where You Are Laying There Dreaming ]
[ Is He In The Next Room Scheming? ]
[ You Might Have Thoughts That Are Happy & Kind ]
[ But He Is Taking Several Medications To Try To Alter
His Evil Mind ]
[ You Really Do Not Know Who You’ve Got ]
[ Living With You & Your Kids In Your House ]
[ He Is Trying To Suppress His Homicidal Thoughts ]
[ That He Has About You, His Spouse ]
[ Ever Since He Became Your Groom ]
[ You Felt Uneasy That He Had No Explanation Or Reasons ]
[ On Why He Had To Have A Knife & Gun In Each Room ]
[ Oftentimes You Feel Uneasy When He Is On The Phone &
There Are Periods Of Uncomfortable Silence ]
[ He Talks Alot About His Past ]
[ When He Was Known To Be Very Violent ]
[ But He Completed His Full Year Of Anger Management
Classes That Were Court Ordered ]
[ You Think That You Should Hang Onto Those Heated
Phone Calls With Him, That You Previously Recorded? ]
[ It Would Cause Unneeded Problems ]
[ If He Would Ever Find Them ]
[ He Seemed To Be So Passionate ]
[ When You Two First Met ]
[ Do You Ever Know Him When His Mind Shifts To
The Dark Side? ]
[ He Says That He Won’t Seek Counseling ]
[ Because He Has, Too Much Pride ]
[ When You Have So Much Doubt ]
[ Do You Ever Worry About ]
[ How This Is Going To Play Out? ]
[ It Has Me Worried Since I Have Not Talked With You In Over
A Week ]
[ I Don’t Want To Go Over To Your House ]
[ & Look Down By The Creek ]
[ How Come Nobody Could Ever See? ]
[ This Tragedy? ]
[ Coming? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(428)▪︎[ Your Mind … 5•21•2021 ]
[ Where Is Your Mind? ]
[ Is It Lost? ]
[ Or Easy To Find? ]
[ What Has Made Your Head Hazy? ]
[ Is There Something That Is Driving You Crazy? ]
[ You Have Doubt ]
[ That You Can Figure This Out ]
[ Sometimes You Need To Bring Light Into The Room ]
[ The Darkness Makes Everything Seem Like Gloom & Doom ]
[ Light Into Your Eyes Means Light To The Brain ]
[ No More Days Of Cloudy With Rain ]
[ More Days In The Dark ]
[ Means More Clouds Trying To Make Their Mark ]
[ Clouds Float In Your Brain, Then Quietly & Slowly Float
Away ]
[ Some Clouds Float In & Then Stay ]
[ You Never Get To Pick ]
[ The One’s That Stick ]
[ It Is Usually Out Of The Norm ]
[ For Clouds To Turn Into Storms ]
[ Storms That May Cause Tornado Twisters Or Hurricanes ]
[ Those Are The Ones That Turns Your Blood Ice
Cold ]
[ As It Tries To Pump Through Your Veins ]
[ Storms Don’t Usually Affect Just You ]
[ Because It Seems That Is Not What They Are There To Do ]
[ Thunder & Lightning ]
[ Causing Tremendous Verbal Fighting ]
[ Usually With That One Person That You Love ]
[ The One That You Should Treat Like A Fragile White Dove ]
[ But Instead You Treat Them Like An Unwanted Crow ]
[ As You Look Around For Something To Throw ]
[ Calmer Heads Will Finally Prevail ]
[ Right Before The Storm Throws In Hail ]
[ The Clouds Eventually Float All Of The Way Through The
Sub-Conscience Part Of Your Brain ]
[ Ending Your Feeling Of Being A Runaway Train ]
[ Calm Settles In As You Realize That The Clouds Never
Stop ]
[ Or Ever Pop ]
[ So You Just Go On With Your Life, Waiting For The Next One ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(290)▪︎[ Get Back Up … 4•6•2021 ]
[ Some Say That When You Get Knocked Down ]
[ You Need To Get Back Up ]
[ So You Can Go & Own The Town ]
[ Owning The Town Is A Huge Responsibility ]
[ But Success ]
[ Is A Possibility ]
[ Put Your Nose To The Grindstone ]
[ Just Know That You Might Be Doing Most Of This
On Your Own ]
[ Work Through The Days When The Silence Gets
So Loud ]
[ You Are Alone In The Center Of An Empty Room ]
[ But It Feels Like You Are Being Smothered ]
[ By The Over Flowing Crowd ]
[ You Are Looking For A Way ]
[ To Get Away ]
[ Even For A Day ]
[ You Carry The World’s Problems Unevenly On Your
Broad Shoulders ]
[ As The Stress Tries To Break You ]
[ You Find That Small Rocks Turn Into Really Large
Boulders ]
[ When Can You Take ]
[ A Break? ]
[ Away From Your Mistakes? ]
[ Especially ]
[ & Specifically ]
[ The Large Ones That Are Forever In Your Memory Bank ]
[ The Ones That You Wish, You Never Made ]
[ Day In & Day Out ]
[ You Constantly Live With Doubt ]
[ Will You Make These Mistakes Again? ]
[ If So ]
[ Then, When? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(323)▪︎[ Start New … 4•18•2021 ]
[ Run Away, Run Away ]
[ But Don’t Just Stay ]
[ Away For Only One Day ]
[ Pack Your Belongings In Five Grocery Bags ]
[ & Remind Yourself That You Won’t Be Going
Back ]
[ Once You Make Your Break ]
[ Never Return ]
[ To That Person That Just Takes ]
[ They Broke Your Heart ]
[ While Trying To Break You Down From The Very Start ]
[ It Is Time To Start Something New ]
[ Move To A Place Where The Water Is Crystal Blue ]
[ Go To The Beach & Walk Without Any Shoes On In The
Cool Sand ]
[ How Do You Feel Without Any Demands? ]
[ No One Around To Gives Commands ]
[ You Spend The First Night Of Many To Come ]
[ Surrounded By Quiet ]
[ Nobody Around To Tell You That You Are Dumb ]
[ You Close Your Eyes Not Hearing A Peep ]
[ For The First Time Since Childhood ]
[ You Got 10 Hours Of Uninterrupted Sleep ]
[ What Do You Say? ]
[ What Will You Do Today? ]
[ You Notice That For The First Time Since You Were A Child ]
[ You Are Letting Your Imagination Go Wild ]
[ You Have Been Suppressed For So Long ]
[ You Have Convinced Yourself ]
[ That Free Thinking Was Wrong ]
[ You Decide That This Is Going To Take Some Undoing ]
[ You Need To Teach Yourself ]
[ A Whole Different Technique Of Self-Soothing ]
[ How Far Must You Run? ]
[ During Your Deepest, Darkest, Depressing Times ]
[ Aren’t You Glad That You Sold Your Guns? ]
[ Some People Say That Statistics Show That Most
Of The Time When There Are Guns In The House ]
[ They Can End Up In Their Owners Mouth ]
[ Those Are The Days That You Want To Leave In The Rearview
Mirror ]
[ Those Are The Voices That You No Longer Want To Hear ]
[ The Only Way To A Healthier Mind ]
[ Is To Erase The Memories That You Don’t Want To Rewind ]
[ ( TAKE SHERPA STEPS ), Can Apply In So Many Situations In Life ]
[ That Saying Is Never Boxed In By Lines ]
[ Find & Build A Whole New Network Of People To Create
Your Inner Circle ]
[ Teach Them New Card Games ]
[ & Introduce Them To A Fun Game Called ( QUIRCLE ) ]
[ Start New & Start Over ]
[ Don’t Feel Defind By Your Next Lover ]
[ Take This As An Obvious Cue ]
[ Start To Live Your Life For One Person … You ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(322)▪︎[ Discarded Like A Weed … 4•18•2021 ]
[ Sometimes I Feel That I Wake Up Reaching For
Dreams ]
[ & I Just Grab Air It Seems ]
[ I Thought That Dreaming Was Supposed To Stop
Once You Wake ]
[ Sometimes I Feel That Some Of My Dreams Are So
Fragile They Could Break ]
[ If I Move ]
[ I Want Dreams That Will Help Me Improve ]
[ My Presence, My Tomorrow, My Fututre Life ]
[ What Will That Be? ]
[ Why Do I Always Seem To Be Chasing That Shining
Light? ]
[ Could It Be The Light Of An Oncoming Train? ]
[ Or Is It Something That Will Do Damage To My Fragile
Brain? ]
[ I Have Already Had Enough Trauma To Last A Lifetime ]
[ I Would Be Rich Years Ago, If I Was Given A Dime ]
[ For Each Time ]
[ Where I Was Slammed Into A Wall ]
[ Where Someone Made Fun Of Me For Not Being Tall ]
[ Those Were All Punches To My Gut ]
[ But … ]
[ I Got Up & Asked ( YOU WERE TRYING TO DO WHAT? ]
[ Trauma To The Brain & To The Soul ]
[ Both Seem To Keep Me From Feeling Whole ]
[ I Circle Myself With A Few Good People Out Of A Crowd ]
[ They Are Able To Keep Me Grounded ]
[ When My Thoughts Are In The Clouds ]
[ They Cover My Ears When My Thoughts ]
[ Become Too Loud ]
[ Just A Few Is All That I Need ]
[ They Nurtured Me Into Blooming Like A Flower ]
[ When Others Discarded Me Like A Weed ]
[ I Love Those ]
[ Who Chose ]
[ To Remain Close ]
[ Thank You Means Much More Than Two Words ]
[ I Tell My Friends To Look Beyond What They’ve Heard ]
[ & See With Their Eyes ]
[ That I Am Much Different Than Those Ordinary Guys ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(429)▪︎[ What Day Was That … 5•21•2021 ]
[ One Bright Sunny Wednesday, I Was Sitting Here Counting
Down The Days Until Friday ]
[ I Did Not Want To Go Too Fast So Then All Of A Sudden It
Would Be Saturday & Saturday Is One Day Too Far After Friday,
Which Is Where I Was Waiting, Wishing, Wanting & Needing To Go ]
[ So Wednesday Is The Day Before Thursday & Thursday Is The Day Before Friday, Which Is Where I Wished I Was ]
[ Because Friday Is Your Monday, Even Though It Is Right Before Saturday, Your Tuesday ]
[ If Saturday Is Your Tuesday Would That Make Sunday Your Thursday Or Your Wednesday? ]
[ If Monday Is Your Friday, What Day Is Your Wednesday? ]
[ Wednesday Is Hump Day Because It Is Three Days Away, Or After, Sunday & Three Days Away, Or Before From Saturday ]
[ But I Am Looking For Friday, The Day Before Saturday ]
[ Friday Is Always Saturdays Yesterday & Thursdays Tomorrow ]
[ Then What Happened To Thursday? ]
[ You Don’t Really Have A Thursday, Unless You Make Your Sunday Your Thursday & Still Be Able To Call Your Monday Your Friday ]
[ Tuesday’s Are One Of Two Days That Are Kind Of Looked Over, Around & Past ]
[ They Are The Day After The Day That People Dread That Is Coming ]
[ They Are A Long Ways Away From The Day That People Hope That Comes Faster, Friday ]
[ The Other Day That Is Glossed Over Is Thursday ]
[ But On Wednesday, Friday Doesn’t Come Until The Day After Tomorrow ]
[ Tomorrow Is Really Thursday, One Day Before Your Monday ]
[ But That Makes Monday Your Friday & Friday Your Monday ]
[ Then What Ever Happened To The Day Before Friday, Which Would Be Thursday? ]
[ If That Is Your Sunday Why Don’t You Work On Thursdays? ]
[ If You Worked On Thursdays I Would Be Looking Forward To Wednesdays Tomorrow, Not Saturdays Yesterday ]
[ Does That All Make A Bit Of Sense? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(150)▪︎[ Change … 2•18•2021 ].
[ To Prevent A Bad Situation From Repeating Itself ]
[ People Have To Look Within Themselves ]
[ People Need To Have Truth Before Reconciliation ]
[ But Without Truth ]
[ Others Cannot Even Have A Conversation ]
[ Sometimes There Are Three Sides To Every Story ]
[ Without One Side Seeking Glory ]
[ There Is Always Their Side & The Other Side, Then
The Truth When Both Sides Are Combined ]
[ The Person Trying To Put The Story Together ]
[ Must Not Show That They Are Aligned ]
[ On One Side Or The Other ]
[ Because It Is Not Right To Always Believe The Sister Over
The Brother ]
[ Some People Try To Mold Others Like Them ]
[ Most Of The Time ]
[ That Becomes A Big Problem ]
[ The World Does Not Need A Population Full Of Clones ]
[ & Society Doesn’t Need To Have Their Privacy Invaded By
A Bunch Of Flying Drones ]
[ Who Wants To Be In The Privacy Of Their Own Backyard ]
[ Then Look Up To See Your Neighbors Drone That Has
A Working Camera ]
[ With A Memory Card? ]
[ That Would Make Peace With Your Neighbor Quite Hard! ]
[ People Must Take Personal Responsibility For Their
Own Actions ]
[ No Matter The Outside Distractions ]
[ That Is Where & When Most People Fail ]
[ That Might Be One Of The Reasons That A Large Part
Of Society ]
[ Is In Prison Or In Jail ]
[ Spending A Couple Of Days Or A Couple Of Decades ]
[ Being Consequenced ]
[ For The Poor Choices That They Made ]
[ Some Parts Of Society Falls Through The Cracks ]
[ Not Having Enough Money For Meals ]
[ So No Money For Snacks ]
[ But Sad To Say That Some People Die All Alone ]
[ Some People Cannot Be Reached By The Telephone ]
[ Some People Think That It May Be Only A Few ]
[ But It Comes Out To Be Many ]
[ If There Is Way More Than Two ]
[ When There Shouldn’t Be Any ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(140)▪︎[ What Does Make Sense … 2•14•2021 ]
[ When The World Does Not Make Sense ]
[ Making Sense Of The World Should Be All
That Matters ]
[ Because When The People Of The World Feel Tense ]
[ Alot Of Society Feels Battered ]
[ When Those Who Are In The Position Of Power
Don’t Lead ]
[ Then Most People In The Need ]
[ Do Not Get Enough To Eat ]
[ Or Have Enough Money To Be Able To Put Shoes
& Socks On Their Children’s Feet ]
[ Food Becomes So Scarce Their Cupboards Become
Bare ]
[ When Those People Are Hungry ]
[ They Don’t Have The Ability & Money To Get Food
From Anywhere ]
[ People Are Becoming Homeless From The Left
& The Right ]
[ Alot Of Them Are So Tired & Burned Out ]
[ They Don’t Have The Energy To Put Up A Good Fight ]
[ When A Part Of Society Feels Beaten’ ]
[ & A Good Many Of Them Have Not Eaten’ ]
[ They Take To The Streets ]
[ They Lash Out Because Of Suffering Through Too Many
Defeats ]
[ The Lower Income Class ]
[ Always Feel Like They Have Been Passed ]
[ Over Time & Time Again ]
[ They Are Never Put In A Position To Win ]
[ The Upper Income Class Always Turn Their Backs ]
[ So The Lower Income People In Society ]
[ Falls Through The Cracks ]
[ They Are So Tired & Sick ]
[ That They Have Never Been Represented In Today’s
Politics ]
[ It Takes Alot Of Money To Successfully Run ]
[ & It Has Been The Richer Person Who Has Won ]
[ Because When The Money Runs Out ]
[ That Candidates Campaign Is Done ]
[ That Means No Representation In The Upper Levels
Of The Senate Or Congress ]
[ Having Their Most Important Needs Are Heard Less
& Less ]
[ Never Aleviating The Mess ]
[ That They Find Themselves In Today ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(137)▪︎[ How Things Are … 2•12•2021 ]
[ Joyous Be To All ]
[ Until You Hit That Proverbial Wall ]
[ But Sometimes That Wall Comes Up So You
Can Rest & Lean On ]
[ Sometimes Until You See The Light Of Dawn ]
[ When You See That Bright ]
[ Sunlight ]
[ Does That Mean That Everything Is Going To Come Out
Alright? ]
[ Not Necessarily ]
[ Because The Sun Comes Up Really Early ]
[ Too Early For Most ]
[ Too Early For Scrambled Green Eggs, Orange Juice & Toast ]
[ But What Happens When You Are Unable To Sleep? ]
[ Even Though You Took All Of Your Night Meds &
Counted Sheep ]
[ That Technique Has Never Worked For You In The Past ]
[ Because Sometimes You Went Too Slow ]
[ While Other Times You Counted Too Fast ]
[ Usually Your Night Meds Knock You Out ]
[ Other Times Your Mind Takes A Different Route ]
[ One That Takes You To Crazy Land ]
[ Where ]
[ There ]
[ Is Alot Of Hurt & Demands ]
[ Nobody Cares ]
[ That Oftentimes You Feel Like A Broken Man ]
[ That Does NOT Have A Plan ]
[ There Is No Plan ( B ) In The Center Of Your Mind ]
[ There Is Nothing That Even Resembles ]
[ A Rescuing Kind ]
[ Sink Or Swim Is Where You Seem To Be ]
[ So If You Don’t Want To Believe ]
[ You Really Need To Open Your Eyes & See ]
[ How Things Really Are ]
[ From Up Close ]
[ & From Really Far ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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