[ What I Will Miss When Asha Leaves After Her Last
Shift ]
[ I Will Miss Everything About Having This Gift ]
[ She Is A Gift Because Everytime She Comes I Have No
Idea What I’ll Get ]
[ She Is One Of The Most Complex & Wonderful Person
That I Have Met ]
[ Yet! ]
[ Asha Has Never Been About Being An Ordinary ( ABC ) ]
[ Just Watch This Poetry In Motion & You Will See ]
[ She Is 5′ 11″‘s Of Sure Confidence ]
[ She Is Very Decisive ]
[ She Never Straddles The Fence ]
[ I Will Miss The Times When She Puts Her Blonde Haired
Wig On ]
[ Sometimes She Does Get The Punch Line Before The
Joke Has Been Completely Gone ]
[ I Will Miss How Protective Of Me That She Has Become ]
[ I Will Miss How She Makes Me Feel Young ]
[ When It Is Just Me & Asha, We Could Talk For Hours ]
[ We Will Talk About Any Subject ]
[ Except Flowers ]
[ That Would Be Where I Would Draw A Blank ]
[ I Think It Is My Purple Thumb To Thank ]
[ I Will Miss Asha’s Intellegence & Personal Incite ]
[ I Will Miss Asha’s Fire & Fight ]
[ When She Gives You An Inch, Never Dare To Take
A Mile ]
[ She Will Yank That Rope Back So Fast ]
[ Still Giving You That Beautiful Smile ]
[ I Will Miss The Quiet Time When Asha Is Near ]
[ Ha, Quiet Time? ]
[ Really? When Asha Is Here? ]
[ Asha’s Sense Of Humor Is Beyond Compare ]
[ I Know That This Young Woman Is Going To Go
Somewhere ]
[ What Will I Miss About Asha When She Clocks Out
That Last Day? ]
[ @ The Beginning Of May? ]
[ Everything That I Prior Said ]
[ Memories Of Asha Will Always Be In My Head ]
[ So She Will Need To Visit A Whole Lot Instead ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ 2021 Stories ]
(352)▪︎[ What We Do … 4•27•2021 ]
[ What Do We Gamble With Everyday Of Our Lives? ]
[ It Is Something That We Always Regret When It Is no
Longer Here ]
[ But We Never See It When It Arrives ]
[ We Gamble With Time Every Second Of The Day ]
[ But Sometimes We Gamble With Our Time ]
[ To Find The Best Or Shortest Way ]
[ To Accomplish What We Do ]
[ Or Lengthen The Time We Spend With Friends & Loved Ones
Too ]
[ Time Seems To Fly By When We Are Doing Something We Like
Or Is Fun ]
[ But Time Seems To Drag On When We Have To Get Something
Done ]
[ We Gamble On The Time We Give Ourselves To Sleep
Through The Night ]
[ From The Moment We Close Our Eyes ]
[ We Hope We Get Enough Sleep Before The Morning
Light ]
[ We Gamble With The Time We Give Ourselves To Do A
Task ]
[ We Try To Do It Really Fast ]
[ & Probably Learned How To Do It Faster From Completing
It In The Past ]
[ When We Gamble With Time We Never Get More Time Back ]
[ The Reward, Is What The Gamble Lacks ]
[ We Might Gamble That A Task May Take One To Three More
Hours ]
[ When It Comes To Control Of The Clock ]
[ It Is Totally Outside Of Our Powers ]
[ It Is Nice To Set Aside A Couple Of Hours For The Ones
That Care ]
[ In Those Situations, We Try To Find The Time To Spare ]
[ We Can Share Our Time With Others ]
[ Like With Our Friends, Sisters Or Brothers ]
[ Sometimes The Gambles Pay Off ]
[ Othertimes We Might Regret That It Has Been Some Time That
We Lost ]
[ Gambling With Our Time Is Not Like Gambling With Dollars
& Cents ]
[ To Some ]
[ Gambling Lots Of Money Does Not Make A Bit Of Sense ]
[ Sometimes Gambling With Our Time Can Come With The Loss
Of A Monetary Value ]
[ Maybe When People Let Time Waste Away ]
[ They Have No Clue ]
[ That They Have A Say ]
[ When Others Say That ( TIME IS MONEY ) ]
[ That Is When Only Time Will Tell ]
[ They Will Have To Wait See ]
[ If Their Gamble Went Well ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(344)▪︎[ Life Comes After You … 4•25•2021 ]
[ How Do You Stop Life From Getting The Best Of You? ]
[ Do You Just Lie Down? ]
[ & Let Life Do What It Has Got To Do? ]
[ It Would Be Easier Than Putting Up A Fight ]
[ With Something That Is Not In Your Sight ]
[ & So It Seems, Night After Night ]
[ Every Single Time That You Get Knocked Down ]
[ You Have To Rise ]
[ When You Stand Up On The High Ground ]
[ Don’t Look @ All Surprised ]
[ Because Life Throws You So Many Punches ]
[ A Queasy Feeling ]
[ Has Ruined Many Lunches ]
[ Through The Days, Weeks & Years ]
[ Life Causes The Shedding Of Many Tears ]
[ During Your Life You Constantly Try To Face Your Worst
Fears ]
[ But The Best Part Is That Your Eyes Are Open Wide ]
[ You Can Hold Your Head High ]
[ Knowing That You Never Did Run & Hide ]
[ So How Do You Survive? ]
[ How Do You Grow & Thrive? ]
[ How Do You Show Your Friends & Loved Ones That You
Still Have Alot Of Drive?
[ Fight The Good Fight Is What You Need To Do Now ]
[ But Don’t Be Impatient ]
[ To Try To Figure Out How ]
[ It Might Be Some Time Before The Answers Come By ]
[ Beware Of People That Always Tell Lies ]
[ Don’t Be Too Quick To Demand The Answer To The Question
( WHY? ) ]
[ Find The Ones That Really Care ]
[ Find The Ones That Has Always Been There ]
[ Then You Realize That Those Are The Ones With Which
You Can Share ]
[ Your New Life, With The Ones That You Love ]
[ Show Everyone How You Fly Free Like A White Dove ]
[ Rise Above The Turmoil ]
[ & Reward Those Who Have Stayed Loyal ]
[ Keep Moving Along ]
[ Show Those Who Thought That You Were Never Strong ]
[ The Best Part Of This Part ]
[ Is That You Prove Them All Wrong ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(333)▪︎[ What Pain? … 4•22•2021 ]
[ There Is So Much Pain Busting @ The Seams In Your Heart ]
[ When Another Dart Is Thrown ]
[ It Continues To Tear You Apart ]
[ It May Be A Word ]
[ That You Heard ]
[ Or An Action That Was Done ]
[ But You Found Out A Long Time Ago ]
[ That Hurtful Words Are Things That You Cannot Out Run ]
[ They Find You By Seeking You Out ]
[ It Could Be A Whisper ]
[ Or It Could Be A Shout ]
[ The Whispered Hurtful Words Do Not Draw A Crowd ]
[ But, What Always Does ]
[ Are The Ones That Are Said Out Loud ]
[ Those Are The Ones That Always Draws Others Attention ]
[ & Because It Does ]
[ There Are Higher Levels Of Contention ]
[ Sometimes Hurtful Words Are Said Because Someone
Lied ]
[ When Hurtful Words Are Said ]
[ You Want To Run & Hide ]
[ Not In A Playful Way Of Another Game Of Hide -n- Seek ]
[ These Words Can Create Such Big Problems ]
[ It Could Cause Two People To Not Want To Speak ]
[ To Each Other ]
[ Like To Your Father ]
[ Like With Your Mother ]
[ That Has Happend So Many Times In Your Past ]
[ Their Grudges Were Created To Last ]
[ You Were Written Off By Both Your Dad & Mom ]
[ @ One Time You Were Dealing With Don ]
[ Then You Had To Deal With Barbara’s Bomb ]
[ Through The Whole Accusatory Conversation You Had
With Barbara You Remained Respectful ]
[ You Did Not Need To Be ]
[ You Did Not Have To Be ]
[ So You Were Careful ]
[ Because You Were Expected To Be ]
[ Because You Were Raised To Be ]
[ You Had So Many Occasions Where You Could Have Laughed
It Off ]
[ & You Had Just As Many Times Where You Could Have Said
( FUCK YOU BARBARA ) In A Fake Cough ]
[ One Problem Is That You Don’t Go Against How You Were
Raised ]
[ This Was The Under The Same Roof Where You Craved ]
[ To Be Praised ]
[ But It Never Came ]
[ That Is Why Mom & Dad Were Never Looked @ The Same ]
[ That Is Why ( MOM ) & ( DAD ) Were No Longer Their
Names ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(355)▪︎[ Who Was That? … 4•28•2021 ]
[ One Day The Lonely Man Came Back To Show
His Deepest Scars ]
[ When He Pulled Up His Undershirt T-Top ]
[ They Looked As Big As Small Cars ]
[ Why Would The Lonely Man Lift Up His Shirt? ]
[ & Show His Hurt? ]
[ It Was NOT For The Itty Bitty ]
[ Pity ]
[ That He Could Get From A Stranger In The City ]
[ It Was So Others Could Learn ]
[ That It Doesn’t Take Spicy Food ]
[ To Cause Someone’s Heart To Burn ]
[ Wounds Are Not Always Made In The Physical Sense ]
[ Just Like Someone’s Dirty Look Can Make You Tense ]
[ A Stab Is Not Always Physical ]
[ Jokes Are Not Always Comical ]
[ If You Are Not Always Mindful ]
[ Jokes Can Quickly Turn Hurtful ]
[ You Can Not Joke About Gender, Race Or Being
Black Or White ]
[ You Can’t Joke About Age Or Weight ]
[ But People Still Joke About Some One’s Height ]
[ Asks The Lonely Man ]
[ You Don’t Try To Go There, There Or There ]
[ But Others Have A Sense Of Entitlement & Think That
They Can ]
[ Sometimes He Takes The Elder Woman’s Cart ]
[ Back Into Walmart ]
[ Not Because He Was Being Asked ]
[ By The Older Lady With The Smile On Her Mask ]
[ He Never Stands Out In The Crowd ]
[ That Is Not What The Lonely Man Is About ]
[ How Will His Wounds Heal? ]
[ How Do His Wounds Feel? ]
[ Everyone One Has Wounds Of Some Sort ]
[ Some People Have Been Successful In Building Their
Own Imaginary Emotional Fort ]
[ ( THAT IS QUITE THE WALL THAT YOU’ve BUILT ) ]
[ Is It As High As Your Mountain Of Guilt? ]
[ How About The Many Pages Of Regrets? ]
[ The Lonely Man Has More, He Bets ]
[ Looking Within @ Your Own Feelings Stings ]
[ Self-Doubt & Insecurity Are The Kings ]
[ Nothing Around The Lonely Man Makes Him Feel
That Bad ]
[ Or That Sad ]
[ Oh Here Is One ( HELLO, DAD! ) ]
[ Sometimes The Lonely Man Could Be Standing On
The Corner Waiting For The Bus ]
[ Sometimes There Is A Little Bit Of The Lonely Man
In Each One Of Us ]
[ ( a very quiet mike drops ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(333)▪︎[ So Much Pain … 4•22•2021 ]
[ There Is So Much Pain Busting @ The Seams In Your Heart ]
[ When Another Dart Is Thrown ]
[ It Continues To Tear You Apart ]
[ It May Be A Word ]
[ That You Heard ]
[ Or An Action That Was Done ]
[ But You Found Out A Long Time Ago ]
[ That Hurtful Words Are Things That You Cannot Out Run ]
[ They Find You By Seeking You Out ]
[ It Could Be A Whisper ]
[ Or It Could Be A Shout ]
[ The Whispered Hurtful Words Do Not Draw A Crowd ]
[ But, What Always Does ]
[ Are The Ones That Are Said Out Loud ]
[ Those Are The Ones That Always Draws Others Attention ]
[ & Because It Does ]
[ There Are Higher Levels Of Contention ]
[ Sometimes Hurtful Words Are Said Because Someone
Lied ]
[ When Hurtful Words Are Said ]
[ You Want To Run & Hide ]
[ Not In A Playful Way Of Another Game Of Hide -n- Seek ]
[ These Words Can Create Such Big Problems ]
[ It Could Cause Two People To Not Want To Speak ]
[ To Each Other ]
[ Like To Your Father ]
[ Like With Your Mother ]
[ That Has Happend So Many Times In Your Past ]
[ Their Grudges Were Created To Last ]
[ You Were Written Off By Both Your Dad & Mom ]
[ @ One Time You Were Dealing With Don ]
[ Then You Had To Deal With Barbara’s Bomb ]
[ Through The Whole Accusatory Conversation You Had
With Barbara You Remained Respectful ]
[ You Did Not Need To Be ]
[ You Did Not Have To Be ]
[ So You Were Careful ]
[ Because You Were Expected To Be ]
[ Because You Were Raised To Be ]
[ You Had So Many Occasions Where You Could Have Laughed
It Off ]
[ & You Had Just As Many Times Where You Could Have Said
( FUCK YOU BARBARA ) In A Fake Cough ]
[ One Problem Is That You Don’t Go Against How You Were
Raised ]
[ This Was The Under The Same Roof Where You Craved ]
[ To Be Praised ]
[ But It Never Came ]
[ That Is Why Mom & Dad Were Never Looked @ The Same ]
[ That Is Why ( MOM ) & ( DAD ) Were No Longer Their
Names ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(350)▪︎[ Can You Hear What I See? … 4•26•2021 ]
[ Can You See What I Hear? ]
[ Can You See The Words That I Just Spoke? ]
[ Can You See Faraway Or Only Near? ]
[ How Long Has Your Vision Been Broke? ]
[ Do You Ever Allow Your Mind To Just Wonder? ]
[ Do You Only See The Sunset? ]
[ Can You Also See What’s Under? ]
[ Those Fading Beams Of Light? ]
[ When You Look To Your Left ]
[ Then You Quickly Look To The Right ]
[ Has The Moon Made The Fading Day? ]
[ Bring In The Night? ]
[ Everything Goes To Bed, Except The Occassional
Night Owl ]
[ Or When A Dog Comes Out To Howl ]
[ The Big Question Is, ( WHAT IS BEYOND THE
SUNSET? ) ]
[ Have You Tried To Discover That Yet? ]
[ Maybe, Just Maybe ]
[ There Might Be Someone That You Have Never Met ]
[ Where Is Your Sense Of Adventure? ]
[ To Walk In A Direction That You Are Not Always
Sure? ]
[ Are You Afraid Of The Possible Wrath ]
[ Of Those You Know ]
[ If You Veered Off Of Your Familiar Path? ]
[ Will You Listen & Learn? ]
[ If It Is A Safety Concern? ]
[ Maybe It Could Be ]
[ Jealousy ]
[ Because You’ll Get To See ]
[ What They Have Always Wanted You To See For Free ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(22)▪︎[ My Steelers … 1•7•2021 ]
[ The Steelers Teams Of The ’70’s Were Unstoppable ]
[ When Other Teams Played Them ]
[ A Win For Them Was Not Very Probable ]
[ The Receivers Were Not Touchable When They
Went For A Catch ]
[ The Opponents Defense Was Never A Match ]
[ The Famous Steel Curtain Would Get Their Opponents
Offense All Out Of Joint ]
[ Because Of That They Rarely Gave Up Any Points ]
[ They Had The Best, Friendliest & Generous Owner
In The Whole NFL ]
[ He Treated The Losing Teams From The ’80’s Just
As Well ]
[ In 1969 They Brought In A Coach Named Chuck Knoll ]
[ To Move Them Out Of The Losing Hole ]
[ & Put Them On The Best Ever Winning Super Bowl ]
[ Roll ]
[ Six Super Bowl Championships Are Never Enough ]
[ Even Though For Decades Things Got Rough ]
[ They Needed To Load The Team Up ]
[ With A Group Of Players That Were Just As Tough ]
[ Along The Way, February 11th, 2001, They Demolished A
Stadium But Not Their Future ]
[ The Defense Still Had That Same Nasty Nature ]
[ Money Was Well Spent ]
[ So A Steelers Game Was Still Quite The Spectacular
Event ]
[ The Quarterback Position Rose To Prominence Starting
With Bradshaw ]
[ Went Through O’Donnell, Brister, Stewart & Maddux ]
[ But They Had Yet To See The Best They Ever Saw ]
[ Then ]
[ When ]
[ In 2004, The Steelers Drafted A Young Quarterback
Number One ]
[ Who Went By The Nickname ( BIG BEN ) ]
[ When They Announced ]
[ Him ]
[ He Had A Name That Was Hard To Spell ]
[ & Even Harder To Pronounce ]
[ They Began To Put Their Trust ]
[ In Big Ben ]
[ & A Running Back That Was Nicknamed ( THE BUS ) ]
[ The Winning Remains The Same ]
[ The Pro Bowl Players ]
[ & All Of The Hall Of Fame ]
[ Names ]
[ Just Like They Were The First Team To Win Six Super
Rings ]
[ In The Hall Of Fame Building ]
[ They Have Their Own Wing ]
[ I Also Have Good Feelings ]
[ Whenever I Talk About My Steelers ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(348)▪︎[ Does Not Mean Agreement … 4•26•2021 ]
[ Validation May Equal Acknowledgement ]
[ But That Does Not Mean An Automatic Agreement ]
[ I Acknowledge What You Say ]
[ But I May Not Agree With You On This Day ]
[ Like I Did On Other Days ]
[ @ No Time Is This About Us ]
[ Maybe This Is Something That We Need To Discuss ]
[ Because ]
[ It Is Not Always A ( ME VERSUS YOU ) ]
[ Thing ]
[ Maybe This Is How I See Things Through The Point
Of View ]
[ That I Bring ]
[ Not By Being Delirious ]
[ But Through My Experience ]
[ I Don’t Always Know What You Are Seeking ]
[ Seeing Or Speaking ]
[ Is It Like The Turning On A Light? ]
[ When We’re Trying To Figure Out What Is Right? ]
[ Without Everything & Anything ]
[ Leading Up To A Fight? ]
[ Afterall We’re Just Trying To Keep Things Moving On ]
[ So All Of The Misconceptions Will Be Gone ]
[ Let’s Continue To Stay Strong ]
[ & Get Away From The Thoughts That Feel Wrong ]
[ Not Everything Is Black Or White ]
[ But Sometimes Our Past ]
[ Blinds Our Sight ]
[ I Am Not Here To Lead Or Follow ]
[ I Never Want My Words To Come Across Hollow ]
[ I Mean What I Say ]
[ In The Most Sincere Way ]
[ Then ]
[ When ]
[ We Walk Side By Side ]
[ I Never Want You To Look Back ]
[ & Say That I Lied ]
[ That Is Not How I Want My Words To Come Through ]
[ To You ]
[ Because … ]
[ That Is The Last Thing I Want To Do ]
[ When Push Comes To Shove ]
[ We Always Need To Rise Above ]
[ The Hurt ]
[ & Show Each Other Who We Love ]
[ & That Is Each Other ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(328)▪︎[ Way Too Peopely … 4•21•2021 ]
[ Sometimes It Looks Like It Is Too Peoplely Outside ]
[ If I Smiled & Said ( THAT’s OKAY ) ]
[ I Lied ]
[ How Many Is Too Many? ]
[ Does There Even Have To Be Any? ]
[ One Mouthy Person Can Be One Too Much ]
[ It Does Not Even Matter If Their Mouth Is Yapping
About Such & Such ]
[ One Person Can Be As Loud ]
[ As A Small Crowd ]
[ There Is A Big Diference Between Being Heard &
Being Seen ]
[ Somebody Could Look @ You Wrong ]
[ & Then Someone Can Say Something Awfully Mean ]
[ It Does Not Take Someone Putting Their Hands On You
To Make You Feel Beat Up ]
[ It Doesn’t Take A Swipe Of A Knife To Give You A Cut ]
[ Words Cut Much Deeper Than Any Old Knife ]
[ Sometimes The Deepest Wounds Are Made By The Husband
Or The Wife ]
[ Those Are The Moments When You Need To Take ]
[ A Long Long Break ]
[ Walk Down To The Bakery ]
[ & Have A Big Piece Of New York Cheesecake ]
[ Recover ]
[ Before You Go Back To Your Lover ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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