[ Here I Sit In A Raft Made For One ]
[ I Tried To Ask Someone To Go With Me ]
[ But They Said That Did Not Look Like It Would Be
All That Much Fun ]
[ I Tried To Entice ]
[ & Ask Really Nice ]
[ But I Had No Takers ]
[ Because Every Single Friend Turned Out To Be
Big Fakers ]
[ Faked Their Friendship & Faked Their Love ]
[ They Faked Everything That They Spoke Of ]
[ Was Their Name ]
[ Even The Same? ]
[ People Even Lie ]
[ With Their Eyes ]
[ Girls ]
[ & Guys ]
[ Does Not Matter The Gender ]
[ Some People Are Just Not Tender ]
[ Deep Deep Down ]
[ Some People Are As Honest As A Clown ]
[ Having A Painted On Smile ]
[ That Only Lasts For Awhile]
[ I Wish I Could Foresee The Ones Coming ]
[ That Are So Numbing ]
[ That Would Save Me So Much Time & Energy ]
[ If They Would Let Me Know That They Had No Integrity ]
[ So I Guess It Is A Plus That They Are Not In My Raft
While I Am Drifting ]
[ Because I Would Practice Some Lifting ]
[ As I Throw Them Over The Side ]
[ Because That Was Just A Matter Of Pride ]
[ That I No Longer Wanted Them In My Ride ]
~ The End ~
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 192 ][ Money Just Can’t … 3•5•2021 ]
[ A ][° 192 °][ MONEY CAN’t … 3•5•2021 ]
[ Some People Actually Think That Money Can Buy
Them Love ]
[ Especially If Romance Is Not The Number One Thing
That They’re Thinking Of ]
[ In Those Situations, Everything Will End ]
[ When There Is No More Money To Spend ]
[ As Long As They Have A Dollar ]
[ They Think That Everyone Is Supposed To Listen
To Them Holler ]
[ Every Single Day ]
[ They Think That They Have Something Important
To Say ]
[ When Some Of These People Yell ]
[ They Just Don’t Get The Point That They Are Trying
To Make, Across Very Well ]
[ Who Would Want To Love Someone When Every Word ]
[ They Said ]
[ Was Never Heard? ]
[ Because The Words ( WAA WAA WAA ) ]
[ Comes Across As Well As ( BLAH BLAH BLAH ) ]
[ Does ]
[ Because ]
[ Money Can’t Ever Buy Someone Friends Or Love ]
~ The End ~
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 210 ][ Happy Anniversary … 3•14•2021 ]
[ March 16, 2021, Will Be Anniversary Number 25 ]
[ That Will Mean That I Have Been Married To You
For Almost Half Of The Years That I Have Been Alive ]
[ Here Is A Good Laugh ]
[ I Have Been Married To You In Years More Than Half ]
[ That Is A Whole Lot Of Years ]
[ We Have Worked Through Many Days & Nights Of
Tears ]
[ Alot Of People That We Thought We Knew ]
[ Did Not Want To Stick Around To Watch Me & You ]
[ Grow As We Aged ]
[ Never Wanted To Watch Us Turn Another Page ]
[ In The Book That We Have Been Writing ]
[ They Would Be Here One Day ]
[ Then There Was Never Another Sighting ]
[ But That Is Quite Okay ]
[ I Say ]
[ Being A Loyal Friend ]
[ Was Not How They Liked To Play ]
[ But That Was Not Your Plan ]
[ Once You Figured Out That I Was Your Man ]
[ Than We Told Your Father & Mother ]
[ When Asked ]
[ I Would Say That I Never Again Wanted To Date Any Other ]
[ We Faced Many Fears … Together ]
[ & Each Time We Came Out Way Better ]
[ Because Some Of Our Burdens ]
[ Were A Whole Lot Heavier Than A Single Feather ]
[ Some People @ The Beginning Never Gave Me A Chance ]
[ But They Never Saw How I Can Dance ]
[ & You Know That Is What I Can Do ]
[ After Dancing With Me A Time Or Two ]
[ Maybe Some Thought That I Was Not Very Capable ]
[ Because Before All Of This ]
[ I Had Never Pulled Up A Chair @ Their Big, Long Table ]
[ Sometimes We Had Tall Mountains To Climb ]
[ But We Succeded, Time After Time ]
[ Then, Because Of That Glorious Day In April Of 2017 ]
[ I Figured Out That I Could Wriite You A Funny Story
That Rhymed ]
[ But Also Know What They Mean ]
[ My Whole Thought Process Changed It Seemed ]
[ All Of A Sudden I Was Having Rhymes In My Head ]
[ That Screamed ]
[ ( LET ME OUT! ) ]
[ Then That Left Me No Doubt ]
[ That These Are The Things I Needed To Write About ]
[ We Have Gone Through A Lot Of Battles ]
[ But We Continue To Fight The War ]
[ There Has Yet To Be Something That Has Rattled ]
[ Either One Of Us, To The Core ]
[ We Have 25 More Years, Until We Get There ]
[ We Have So Many More Good Times To Share ]
[ So … Do We Dare? ]
[ Try? ]
[ ( YES! ) Says I ]
[ I Love You More Every Day Since I First Said Those Words ]
[ Then When You Said ( I DO! ) ]
[ That Was The Best Answer To A Question That I Had Ever
Heard ]
[ I Could Learn How To Say ( I LOVE YOU ) In Ten Or
20 Different Languages ]
[ But All Through The 25 Years ]
[ The Meaning Never Changes ]
[ Sado Omnida ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 254 ][ All Hands. … 3•28•2021 ]
A ][° 254 °][ ALL HANDS … 3•28•2021 ]
[ There Should Be A Call For All Hands On Deck ]
[ & Help To Keep Each Other In Check ]
[ Strangers Are Pulling Guns On Each Other ]
[ Maybe Some Guys Are Avenging The Death Of Their
Brother ]
[ When All Is Said & Done ]
[ There Are Parents All Over The State ]
[ Making Funeral Arrangements For Their Sons ]
[ One Problem With Bullets Is That They Can’t Control Their
Direction ]
[ Once The Trigger Is Pulled ]
[ There Cannot Be Any Corrections ]
[ They Go Where They Must ]
[ There Is No Deceiving Or A Lack Of Trust ]
[ They Go Where They Go ]
[ Where They Come To Stop ]
[ You Just Don’t Know ]
[ Will It Be A Head, Leg Or Arm ]
[ That Will Be Harmed? ]
[ Or Will It Be A Wall ]
[ That Takes It All? ]
[ The One Thing About Bullets Is That They Work ]
[ There Are No Behavior Problems Or Weird Quirks ]
[ With All Of These Shootings ]
[ Will Everybody Forget About All Of The Vandalism &
Looting? ]
[ It Seems Like A Shooting Here & A Murder There ]
[ Would Anybody Care ]
[ But Most Of The Time, That Is Not The Case ]
[ That Also Means ]
[ That Nobody Is Safe ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 259 ][ A Day In The Life … 3•29•2021 ]
[ Sometimes I Get So Tired I Feel Like I Can See My
Own Thoughts ]
[ They Are In The Form Of Red & Yellow Spots ]
[ They Don’t Come Out In A Straight Line ]
[ @ Least Not Mine ]
[ Sometimes I Can Pick Out The Spots Of Others ]
[ Sad To Say ]
[ I Saw Some Really Dark Ones, That Were My Biological
Mothers ]
[ The Mother That Signed Off ]
[ Then Ran Off ]
[ I Began Seeing My Thoughts @ A Very Young Age ]
[ Trying To Find An Outlet For My Rage ]
[ I Had To Learn To Self Soothe ]
[ When Things Were Not Going So Smooth ]
[ Some Days She Would Yell That I Was Cheating ]
[ Because I Always Tried Hide ]
[ When She Would Yell ( IT IS TIME FOR YOUR BEATING! ) ]
[ I Was So So Small ]
[ & I Was So Malnourished I Was Almost Bald ]
[ I Had Good Hiding Spots All Over The House ]
[ This All Started After My Dad Left ]
[ Her Spouse ]
[ Life Is Not Fair When I Am Forced To Sit There & Watch
My Brother & Sister Eat ]
[ She Won’t Give Me My Shoes Back ]
[ So During Those Days When She Let’s Me Play Outside The
Gravel Hurts My Feet ]
[ How Has My Stomach Found A Way ]
[ To Be Bulging Out ]
[ When I Have Had So Little Food In The Last 8 Days? ]
[ My Sister Treats Me Good ]
[ When She Takes A Huge Risk ]
[ & Smuggles Me Food ]
[ But I Am Very Sure ]
[ That My Mother Would Never Beat Her ]
[ She Has A Specific Certain Wire Hangar ]
[ That She HITS Me With ]
[ When She Takes Out Her Anger ]
[ Days End So Bad ]
[ After She Has Spent Hours On The Phone ]
[ Yelling @ My Dad ]
[ I Always Hated Those Calls ]
[ Because Then She Would Throw My Toys Against
The Walls ]
[ I Only Had A Few That Were Not Broken ]
[ Or Taken ]
[ My Hunger Would Always Make Me Cry & Scream ]
[ When It Would Wake Her ]
[ From Her Drunken Stuper ]
[ She Can Be So Mean ]
[ Whenever My Stomach Uncontrollably Growls ]
[ She Gives Me The Hardest Scowl ]
[ Why Don’t I Ever Get Warm, Dry Clothes Like They
Get? ]
[ The Clothes She Puts On Me Are Always Dirty & Wet ]
[ Yesterday All I Had To Eat Was Mashed Up Bananas
In A Dirty Bowl ]
[ The Hunger Is Taking It’s Toll ]
[ I Wish The Babysitter Would Just Take Us ]
[ But I Don’t Think She Could Carry Three Kids When She
Catches Her Bus ]
[ If Any Of Us Would Go ]
[ It Would Be My Brother ]
[ If She Would Ever Be Asked She Would Not Say ( NO ) ]
[ One Night When She Got Off Of The Phone She
Seemed Quiet & Relieved ]
[ But I Also Heard Her Say ( MAYBE I SHOULD JUST PACK-UP
& LEAVE ) ]
[ The Next Day I Found It Odd Because She Was Humming ]
[ She Also Said ( YOUR PIECE OF CRAP DAD IS COMING ) ]
[ She Yelled @ Me When We Were In The Car Saying
( IN TWO HOURS YOU WILL BE GONE ) ]
[ & ( THEN I CAN FINALLY MOVE ON! ) ]
[ But When We Went ]
[ There Was No Brent ]
[ So She Was True To Her Word ]
[ From That Point ]
[ Her Voice Was Never Ever Heard ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 256 ][ Yes!… 3•29•2021 ]
[ Today I Went To The Glass Barber Grocery Store ]
[ Not Because I Wanted To See ]
[ Or Wanted A Haircut, Or Hungry Or Bored ]
[ I Looked Up @ The Bicycle Clock ]
[ So I Could Watch The Tires Yell Out The Time ]
[ As I Layed Down & Talked ]
[ As I Slept In The Aisle ]
[ For Over Two Miles ]
[ I Could Not Understand Why The Number Yellow
Started With The Letter ( P )? ]
[ How Could That Cost Me A $ ]
[ When It Should Had Paid Me A Fee ]
[ Nothing Makes Cents? ]
[ Except Six Pence ]
[ When I Got To The Chicken In The Aisle I Went To The
Door To Let Her Out ]
[ She Was Crying & Had The Saddest Pout ]
[ So Then I Went Back To Surfing On My Tricycle Up & Down
The Bowling Courts ]
[ I Never Imagined ]
[ That I Could Ever Be This Good @ Wearing Tight, Bikini Shorts ]
[ Knew When I Woke Up Last Yesterday That I Shaved My
Legs For A Reason ]
[ Afterall ]
[ Every Day Is The Start Of Bikini Season ]
[ I Just Do What I Do ]
[ & When I Put Soda In My Mouth ]
[ I Chew ]
[ But My Grocery Shoplifting Was Not Done ]
[ Whenever I Wear Thermal Socks With My Stilleto Heels ]
[ I Can’t Run ]
[ But Trying, Sure Feels … ]
[ … Fun ]
[ Off To The Service Shop To Fill Up My Shopping Bags With
Premium Gas ]
[ It Is Always Free ]
[ When I Press My Bare Ass ]
[ Up Against The Glass ]
[ & There Is Alot Of Money I Save ]
[ When I Behave ]
[ While I Am Being Shaved ]
[ My Head Comes Out Bald & Feeling Nice ]
[ I Liked How He Shaved Me The First Time ]
[ So I Walked By There Twice ]
[ This Story Keeps Going Up & Down ]
[ Around & Around ]
[ It Is Meant To Make You Smile ]
[ Not Frown ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 273 ][ Different People … 4•1•2021 ]
[ There Are Many Types Of People In The World ]
[ The Ones That Go To The Circus To Laugh @ The Clowns ]
[ & There Are The Ones That Grab The Batton & Give
It A Twirl ]
[ When The World Gets So Heavy On My Shoulders
I Have Trouble Standing ]
[ & When I’m Alone ]
[ Things Become So Demanding ]
[ Then You Will Find That There Are Two Different Groups
Walking Freely ]
[ Out In Society ]
[ There Are The One’s That Look Before They Leap ]
[ & There Are Those That Always Finds A Way To Cheat ]
[ There Are Secrets That You Gave Your Word That You
Would Always Keep ]
[ Just To Yourself ]
[ A Pinky Deal Was Made That You Would Not Tell Anyone
Else ]
[ An Oath That You Would Take The Secret To The
Grave ]
[ You Give Your Word That Even Through Being Tortured
You Would Remain Brave ]
[ There Is Always An Opposite Side Of Itself ]
[ One Goes On The Floor ]
[ While The Other Side Remains On The Shelf ]
[ Good Or Bad ]
[ Happy Or Sad ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 253 ][ They Are Unable To Dream … 3•28•2021 ]
[ Some People Say That Kids In Foster Care Do Not Dream ]
[ They Feel Insecure Of Their Future It Seems ]
[ Never Knowing ]
[ When To Pack Up Their Belongings ]
[ Or Where They Will Be Going ]
[ Could It Be To A Farm In The Country? ]
[ Or An Apartment In The City? ]
[ Their Whole Life Up To That Point Had Been One Of
Transition ]
[ For A Scared Young Child ]
[ That Puts Them In An Unstable Position ]
[ These Children Do Not Dream Because They Do Not
Know What They Could Dream Of ]
[ A Welcoming Home? ]
[ A New Family Full Of Love? ]
[ How Can A Child Dream Of Something That They Don’t
Have Any Experience In? ]
[ When They Try To Succeed In Life, They Never Win ]
[ Kids Go Into Their Next Placement Totally Blind ]
[ How Do Others Think How That Affects Their Young
Minds? ]
[ There Eyes & Minds Are Blurry ]
[ Their Whole Life Seems To Be In A Hurry ]
[ But It Is Not ]
[ & Their Personal Belongings That They’ve Got ]
[ Is Never Alot ]
[ Night Or Day ]
[ They Never Have A Say ]
[ Kids Have Zero Control ]
[ They Do Not See Their Role ]
[ Or Where They Fit ]
[ They Get Whatever They Get ]
[ & If They Go To A House Where A Family Already Exists ]
[ They Do Whatever The Parents Insists ]
[ What They Want Them To Do ]
[ Not Understanding Any Social Cues ]
[ Kids Can Be The Victims Of A Broken System ]
[ The One Thing That Is Supposed To Help Them ]
[ Kids Are Put In The System Not Of Their Own Free
Will ]
[ No One Leaves A Family For Excitement & Thrills ]
[ @ Any Age ]
[ Causing So Much Pain & Pent Up Rage ]
[ Kids In Foster Care Never Have An Outlet ]
[ For All Of The Frustration They Get ]
[ Kids Never Have A Solid Foot On The Ground ]
[ Because They Are Always Being Moved Around ]
[ The State ]
[ The Game Is One Big Wait ]
[ Waiting For The Next Knock On The Front Door ]
[ Not Knowing What Is In Store ]
[ Next ]
[ Not Being Told Through A Phone Call ]
[ Or Read To Them From A Text ]
[ Every New Family Is Like A Long Roll Of The Dice ]
[ Not Knowing If The Other Kids Will Be Mean Or Nice ]
[ Sometimes A Family Can Be Really Nice When You
Are New ]
[ But Then Turn Into The Worst Ones, Too ]
[ Kids Have Very Little That They Own ]
[ & In New Placements Feel Completely Alone ]
[ In The Back Of Their Minds The Thought Is Always There ]
[ That @ Any Moment The Child Could Be Moved Elsewhere ]
[ Foster Kids Feel That They Have To Be On Their Best
Behavior & Shouldn’t Do Anything Wrong ]
[ Since The Bond Is Not Strong ]
[ They Could Be Removed ]
[ Not Soothed ]
[ Children Have Dreams Of Possibilities That Could Occur ]
[ Children In Foster Care Are Never Sure ]
[ Of Their Future ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 233 ][ Maybe … 3•19•2021 ]
[ When You Say ( MAYBE ), Is That A Committment Or Not? ]
[ Should You Have To Answer When You Are Put On
The Spot? ]
[ Maybe You Are So Tired ]
[ Maybe There Is Not Enough Caffeine To Get You Wired ]
[ Maybe You Did Not Answer My Call ]
[ Because You Told Yourself That You Would Not
Answer The Phone @ All ]
[ Maybe You Didn’t Respond To My Text ]
[ Because After The First Line ]
[ You Did Not Want To Read What Came Next ]
[ Maybe You Do Not Cook ]
[ Because You Never Like How It Looks ]
[ Maybe You Did Not Wake-Up Early ]
[ Because Last Night Sleep Did Not Come In A Hurry ]
[ Maybe You Did Not Cook Me Something To Eat ]
[ Because You Feel So Beat ]
[ Maybe You Did Not Straighten Out The Bed ]
[ Because You Have A Migraine Ache Pounding In
You Head ]
[ Maybe You Don’t Want To Talk While You Drive ]
[ Because You Are So Worried About Getting There
Before Five ]
[ Maybe You Didn’t Shower ]
[ Because Your Body Is So Sore ]
[ You Would Probably Just Stand Under The Hot Water For
@ Least An Hour ]
[ Maybe Something You Really Hate ]
[ Is Not Always Feeling Supported By Your Mate ]
[ Maybe I Should Get My Own Coffee Cup ]
[ & Back Away ]
[ Then Shut The Fuck Up! ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 248 ][ The War Zone … 3•24•2021 ]
[ A ][° 248 °][ THE WAR ZONE … 3•24•2021 ]
[ Sometimes Life Feels Like A War Zone ]
[ Especially When You Are Left To Go Through It
All Alone ]
[ The Quiet Is Quite Often Deafening ]
[ Especially If You Are The Only One Listening ]
[ Sometimes You Want To Say Something, But Nobody
Is There ]
[ When You Talk, The Words Just Seem To Hang In The Air ]
[ That Is One Reason That It Seems ]
[ That Your Life Feels So Empty ]
[ @ Night, You Never Have Dreams ]
[ But How Can You Fill The Void? ]
[ But Keep Away The Noise? ]
[ Sometimes Noise Can Just Drive You Insane ]
[ Day After Day ]
[ It Makes You Afraid ]
[ To Take That First Step Forward ]
[ Toward ]
[ The Crowd ]
[ Where The Voices Get Loud ]
[ & It Gets So Bad That Just Refuse To Try ]
[ & You Won’t Go For That Ride ]
[ Where People Steal & Lie ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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