[ You Seem To Only Hold On, To Let Go ]
[ Be It Fast, Or Be It Slow ]
[ Holding On To You, Is All I Know ]
[ @ Times When I’m With You ]
[ You Daydream & Don’t Seem To Be There ]
[ & When You Do ]
[ You Shrug Your Shoulders & Don’t Seem To Care ]
[ How Can I Get Through That Wall Of You Not Trusting
Others ]
[ You Show Love ]
[ To Your Sister & Brothers ]
[ What About Me? ]
[ Haven’t I Grown Into The Man That You’ve Always Wanted
Me To Be? ]
[ When You Look In My Direction ]
[ Why Can’t You See ]
[ But It Has Seemed Like It Has Taken Years & Years ]
[ For You To Face Your Fears ]
[ Through All Of That Time ]
[ Both Me & You Have Shed Many Years ]
[ You Need To Give Credit, Where Credit Is Due ]
[ Especially Because I’ve Sat Here, Seeing Things
Through ]
[ When You Find That The Dream Is Free ]
[ & The Hustle Is Sold Separately ]
[ You’ll See That When You Satisfy The Need ]
[ You Won’t Have To Act So Desperately ]
[ Even Though I’m Leaving Here ]
[ I’ll Always Be There ]
[ So Let’s Make This Clear ]
[ That My Heart’s Not Going Anywhere ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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Category: [ 2022 Stories ]
(005)▪︎[ The Yin & The Yang … 1•2•2022 ]
[ Learn. Fail. Learn. Fail. Learn More ]
[ Be More Flexible Than A Board ]
[ The (LEARN/FAIL) Combination Should Happen Throughout
Your Life ]
[ With The Exception Of Picking A Husband Or Wife ]
[ You Don’t Want To Have A Spinning Door When It Would Come
To Picking A Spouse ]
[ Then Having A Good Cat To Chase Down That Lone Mouse ]
[ All Through Life You Should Be Learning ]
[ The Desire Should Always Be Burning ]
[ You Have Never Met The Guy ]
[ That Is As Good As It Gets ]
[ On The First Try ]
[ But You Have To Make It Known ]
[ It Is Not Easy To Write A Poem ]
[ It Takes Quite A Long Time ]
[ To Write A Story That Will Rhyme ]
[ Even Having A Family There Are Times Of (LEARN/FAIL) ]
[ But It Might Be Too Late If Your Child Is Headed To Jail ]
[ But Jail/Prison Has Their Own Set Of Rules ]
[ Those People Never Used All Of Their Tools ]
[ They Should Have Learned While Growing Up ]
[ Some People Never Filled Up Their Learning Cup ]
[ Learning & Failing Is All About Growing ]
[ But You Should Never Think That You Are All-Knowing ]
[ They Say That To Be Tough Is To Fragile ]
[ To Be Tender Is To Be Truly Fierce ]
[ With Most Things In Life, Learning Is Gradual ]
[ Would That Be The Yin & The Yang Of The Universe? ]
[ Either Do Or Succumb To This Way ]
[ Or Things Could Get Alot Worse? ]
[ Fragile, Is The Opposite Of Tough ]
[ The Opposite Of Smooth, Is Rough ]
[ You Must Know (1), To Know The Other ]
[ Sometimes You Have To Go Through The Discipline Of The
Father ]
[ To Truly Appreciate The Comfort Given To You By The Mother ]
[ Fail/Learn, Fail/Learn ]
[ Sometimes The Whole Lesson Is A Serious Burn ]
[ Or Gives You Something To Yearn ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]
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(501)▪︎[ Torturing The Caregiver … 8•1•2022 ]
[ The Voice From The Other Room Was Faint To The Ear ]
[ What It Softly Said ]
[ Was Not Clear ]
[ The Voice Was Calm ]
[ As It Cried Out For Its Mom ]
[ I Could Not Tell If It Was A Young Girl Or Boy ]
[ It Almost Sounded Like It Was Coming From A Toy ]
[ I Played The Scenario Again & Again In My Head ]
[ I Wondered If It Came From A Small Animal Instead ]
[ All Of A Sudden It Seemed Like Something Sucked All Of The
Air Out Of The Room ]
[ The Drop In The Temperature ]
[ Made It Feel Like We Were Sitting In An Old Mummy’s Tomb ]
[ There Seemed To Be A Big Problem ]
[ Because The Floor Boards Would Creak ]
[ When They Did Not Have Anything Walking Across Them ]
[ The Windows Had Frosted Over Days Ago ]
[ It Happened So Slow ]
[ It Normally Would Not Show ]
[ There Are Cracks In Some Windows That I Did Not Notice The
Other Day ]
[ Nobody Knew Anything ]
[ Nobody Would Say ]
[ Even Though My Caregiver Would Sweep Everyday, There
Always Seemed To Be Dust Everywhere ]
[ The Dust Was Swept Up Yesterday ]
[ I Swear ]
[ The Wind Comes In Through The Cracks ]
[ In The Wood ]
[ When It Chills Our Backs ]
[ That Does Not Feel Very Good ]
[ In The Middle Of The Night, I Hear Noises That Cannot Be
Explained ]
[ I Have Found, From Past Experiences, That It Does No Good To
Complain ]
[ The Dark Night ]
[ Plays With My Sight ]
[ Because When It Is Completely Black Outside ]
[ I See Flashes Of Light ]
[ Sometimes My Brain Feels Lost ]
[ The T.V. Flickers ]
[ Long After The Power Was Turned Off ]
[ Voices Whisp Around The Room Like They Are Riding On The
Wind ]
[ Should This Story End ]
[ Like It Begins? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ,]
[ A hui hou ,]
[ Aloha ,]
[ Na ,]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ,] [酪]
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(053)▪︎[ Glad It’s Over … 1•18•2022 ]
[ Year 2021 Was Not Very Fun ]
[ It Was So Bad ]
[ By The End Of February, You Were Already Done ]
[ That Is When You Tested Positive For The ‘VID ]
[ You Had No Idea What You Did ]
[ The Only Times That You Did Not Wear A Mask Was In
Your House ]
[ Thankfully, It Never Got To Your Spouse ]
[ You Had Thoracic Surgery On (3) Parts Of Your Spine ]
[ & Your Lower Back Is Still Not Aligned ]
[ This Year , You Woke Up To Celebrate Your 25th Anniversary
While On A Hospital Bed ]
[ What A Great Place To Wake Up To Celebrate How Many Years
That You Have Been Wed ]
[ Your Longtime Caregiver Up & Quit ]
[ Because Of A Bunch Of Miscommunication & Misunderstanding
Shit ]
[ This Event Really Took You By Surprise ]
[ But Then You Found Out ]
[ That For Months She Had Been Telling You A Bunch Of Lies ]
[ She Had Her Resumé Out There For Awhile It Seemed ]
[ Because She Said That She Had It Out There With (INDEED) ]
[ So You Had To Finish Off Of The Year Without (1) ]
[ That Sure Hurt A Ton ]
[ The Best Part Of The Ending Year ]
[ You Were Able To Start 2022 With The Person Who Is Most
Near & Dear ]
[ You Were Alone Way Too Much ]
[ There Were Chunks Of Time When You Did Not ]
[ Have The Comfort Of Talking To Anyone About Such -n- Such ]
[ Too Much Alone Time ]
[ But You Were Able To Write Over (1,000) Stories That Rhymed ]
[ It Started With A Whimper ]
[ & Ended With A Bang ]
[ Not A Whisper ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(058)▪︎[ Hard To Refrain! … 1•19•2022 ]
[ When Someone Judges A Person Considering Suicide, Who
Has Never Walked The Life Or Death Line ]
[ Has No Place To Whine ]
[ The Suicidal Person Does Not Think That It Is The Most
Selfish Act ]
[ It Is The Other Way Around, In Fact ]
[ He Feels That The Act Will Free Those He Feels He Is Weighing
Down ]
[ The Issue Is Neither Black Or White ]
[ It Is More Like Brown ]
[ He Feels He Is A Financial Burden Or Drain ]
[ His Thoughts Are Going As Fast As A Runaway Train ]
[ There Are No Frequent Stops ]
[ There Are No Postal Drops ]
[ His Thinking Has Become Completely Hyper Focused On What
He Feels That He Must Do ]
[ He Tries Not To Give Off Any Social Cue ]
[ Or Leave A Clue ]
[ Nothing Until He Would Be Found ]
[ Either Swinging From A Rope ]
[ Or Laying On The Ground ]
[ In His Mind It Is A (FREEING ACT) Times Two ]
[ It Was Never A Selfish Act To Do ]
[ If He Is Not Working, He Might Feel Like Others Think That He
Is A Bum ]
[ His Guilt Is Something That He Never Could Outrun ]
[ Others Will Have More Money If They Did Not Have His
Mouth To Feed ]
[ (2) Different Times He Never Got Any Hits On His Resume
When He Used (INDEED) ]
[ Not A Single Bite On His Resumé After Having It Out There
For More Than ½ A Year ]
[ When He Got Let Go Because Of The ‘VID19 ]
[ This Was Something He Feared ]
[ He Thought That He Had A Career That He Could Retire From ]
[ Then The ‘VID19 Happened ]
[ So He Does Not Have One ]
[ One Time When He Was Omitted Into A Hospital, He Learned So
Much More About His Suicidal Triggers From The Others ]
[ Than He Could Have From The Dr’s ]
[ & People’s Mothers ]
[ They Should Have More Groups With Open Discussions Than
They Had ]
[ & That Was Bad ]
[ So Much About A Suicider’s Brain Is Misunderstood ]
[ That Does Not Do Anybody Any Good ]
[ He Just Wants To Release His Physical/Mental Pain ]
[ That Won’t Go Away ]
[ It Is So Hard To Refrain ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]
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(007)▪︎[ The Collections … 1•3•2022 ]
[ A Baseball Card Collection That May Be Up To A Million ]
[ An Extensive C.D. Collection Without A Single C.D. Of
Bob Dylan ]
[ Several Different Collections, None Like The Other ]
[ Some C.D.’s You Would Not Play In Front Of Your Mother ]
[ It Would Not Be The Intent ]
[ Just The Content ]
[ They Do Not Talk About Brotherly Love The Whole Time ]
[ & They Don’t Admit ]
[ To The Crimes ]
[ They Might Commit ]
[ Some Of Your Collections Date Back To The Sixties ]
[ What Is Better Than That? ]
[ Well A Baseball Card Or (2) Dating Back To The 1950’s ]
[ You Have Sports Illustrated Magazines Further Back Than
You Can Remember ]
[ Some Are From The Months Of January ]
[ Clear Through The End Of December ]
[ You Have Pennies, & Nickels Coming Out Of Your Ears ]
[ You Have Collective Coins Dating Back For Over (30) Years ]
[ You Used To Have A Coin Collection Of Only Nickels ]
[ No, You Do Not Have A Collection Of Old, Empty Beer Cans
& Dried Up Pickles ]
[ You Guess You Could Have If You Wanted To ]
[ Well … You Never Wanted To ]
[ You Have A Collection Of Newspapers That Rivals No One ]
[ Way Back Then, You Used To Collect Them For Fun ]
[ Michael Jordan Magazines & Cards ]
[ Now Collecting Anything LeBron James Is Becoming Quite
Hard ]
[ Things Are Swooped In As Fast As Crazy ]
[ When It Comes To Collecting Stuff ]
[ Nobody Ever Called You Lazy ]
[ What Will Your Wife Do With All Of Your Collections Once
You Die ]
[ You Are Not Telling A Lie ]
[ You Don’t Know ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(008)▪︎[ His Wares … 1•3•2022 ]
[ Wherever Good Is Trying To Happen ]
[ Bad Is There To Stop It ]
[ It Is Always Just A Matter Of When ]
[ Good Things Don’t Stay Good For Very Long ]
[ & Sometimes You Need A Cord That Has (2) Prongs ]
[ It Would Not Be A Bad Choice ]
[ It Just Wasn’t The Right Choice ]
[ Maybe The Right Choice In A Different Situation ]
[ You Will Have To Get Someone Else’s Attention ]
[ It Does Not Matter ]
[ If You Hear The Pitter Patter ]
[ Of Something On The Roof ]
[ Because Nobody Needs The Proof ]
[ That Old St. Nick Was There ]
[ To Share ]
[ His Wares ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(469)▪︎[ My Friend, Brie … 7•19•2022 ]
[ People May Wonder Why ]
[ That I Hate Telling A Good Friend Goodbye ]
[ It Is Too Final ]
[ Then That Would Make Me Live In Denial ]
[ It Seems Like It Wasn’t Too Long Ago That We First Met ]
[ It Took Awhile Before Our Mon. & Tue. Schedule Was Set ]
[ It Took A Few Weeks Before You Brought Alex Into This
Friendship ]
[ Getting Close To Him Was Not A Hardship ]
[ He Is Quite The Confident & Secure Man To Not Be Bothered
By What You Do ]
[ When I Became Your Client ]
[ That Meant Alex Came, Too ]
[ I Really Enjoy Your Playfulness With Each Other ]
[ Do Not Model The Behavior Of His Mother ]
[ Anyone Around You (2) Can See How In Love With The Other You
(2) Are ]
[ To Each, The Other, Is The Brightest Shining Star ]
[ Thank You For Letting Me Share A Little Bit Of Your Life ]
[ You Instantly Made Me Feel Comfortable ]
[ Along With My Wife ]
[ My Feeling Of Security With You, Is Beyond Reproach ]
[ I Think, For Me, You Are Much Better Than A Life Coach ]
[ You Never Laughed When You Saw My Bare Belly ]
[ You Did Not Mind My Dancing To The Songs By Nelly ]
[ This Is Breaking My Heart, I Have To Say ]
[ When I Think Of Bad Times ]
[ I Will Try Not To Point To This Day ]
[ I Know That Change Sometimes Makes You Stronger ]
[ But I Wanted You To Stay @ Least (2) Years Longer ]
[ If You Brought A Bag Inside Of My House, I Was Never
Wary ]
[ I Was As Cautious Around You As Much As I Would Want
To Have A Chest That Was Hairy ]
[ I Always Felt Secure In Those Strong Hands ]
[ Your Hands Were As Strong As Any Mans ]
[ All Of That Work On The Farm Really Does Make You Strong ]
[ If Someone Was To Brag About That ]
[ They Would Not Be Wrong ]
[ You Shared Your Time & I Shared My Space ]
[ I Was Always So Happy Whenever You Showed Up @ My Place ]
[ With A Smile Across That Pretty Face ]
[ You & Alex Have Some Possible Life Changing Events Coming
Up In Your Near Future ]
[ I Will Always Be Just A Phone Call Away ]
[ To Listen & Nurture ]
[ You Were Very Rare ]
[ When It Came To You Being My Caregiver ]
[ You Did Not Steal From Anywhere ]
[ You Never Asked For A Penny Your Whole Time ]
[ No Penny, Nickel Or Dime ]
[ I Trusted You In My Room Without The Need To Watch Over
Your Shoulder ]
[ My Confidence Concerning Caregivers Around My Room ]
[ Has Definitely Dipped As I Get Older ]
[ Someday Will You Come & Help Me Bake ]
[ Some Muffins ]
[ Or Cake? ]
[ (76) Days Sure Did Fly By ]
[ I Better End This Before It Makes Me Cry ]
[ You Will Be Terribly Missed, Brie ]
[ Thank You For Taking Care Of Me! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]
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(049)▪︎[ He Faultered … 1•16•2022 ]
[ They Say That Voting Is Your Constitutional Right ]
[ To Get This In The Past ]
[ Citizens Actually & Literally Put Up A Fight ]
[ To Get What The People Wanted ]
[ (FREE TO VOTE) Is What They Taunted ]
[ It Is What They Want ]
[ It Was Their Taunt ]
[ But For Most Of Your Adult Life, You Chose Not To Vote ]
[ But That Is Not The Reason For This Subject ]
[ That You Wrote ]
[ This Used To Be Something You Did Not Talk About ]
[ Because If Someone Raised Their Voice ]
[ You Knew That You Needed To Shout ]
[ To Get Your Point Across ]
[ But, It Is Never To Say That You Are The Boss ]
[ Then You Ask (DOES REDBULL ACTUALLY GIVE YOU WINGS?) ]
[ If That Was True ]
[ You Could Be King ]
[ But If You Are Not Centered ]
[ You Will See The Bad That Has Entered ]
[ If You Can’t Have A Kind Soul ]
[ Being Their Enemy Is Their Number [1] Goal ]
[ That Is Not How They Wanted This To Play Out ]
[ But You Got Faster, Kinder & Better ]
[ They Will Shout ]
[ You Never Voted Because You WERE Lazy ]
[ You Always Thought All Of The Choices Looked Crazy ]
[ You Never Put In The Effort To Investigate The Choices ]
[ You Had Never Taken Time To Listen To Their Voices ]
[ So You Had No Idea What Separated One From Each Of The
Others ]
[ But You Would Not Be Voting For Their Mothers ]
[ So Instead Of Voting Blindly ]
[ You Did Not Take To Anyone Too Kindly ]
[ But Than A Horrible Game Show Host ]
[ Got Elected To The Country’s Highest Post ]
[ How The Hell Did This Happen You Asked ]
[ The Real Satan Was Unmasked ]
[ But There He Was, Trying To Bend The Country Over Once
Again ]
[ During The Last [4] Years ]
[ All He Did Was Commit Sin After Mortal Sin ]
[ You Thought About What You Could Do ]
[ To Keep Him From Going Through Round Number [2] ]
[ So You Voted After Reading The Issues ]
[ If He Was To Win You Would Need A Case Of Tissue ]
[ Even Though He Said That The Ballots Were Altered ]
[ He Burned Up & Faultered ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(037)▪︎[ Dream Interrupted … 1•12•2022 ]
[ Sometime A Dream ]
[ Is Not What It Seems ]
[ Could It Be About A Bunch Of Lies ]
[ Coming @ You While Wearing A Disguise ]
[ A Sunny Day Could Switch To A Big Dark Cloud ]
[ Then Your Quiet, Serene Dream, Would Become Really Loud ]
[ You Were Not Prepared For This ]
[ There Was No Such Word Like (STORM) On Your Nightly Dream
List ]
[ This Is Nothing On The Information Form ]
[ For Pushing The Letter (C) ]
[ To Make It The Norm ]
[ Letter (C) Was Always Calm ]
[ It Never Gave You An Ice Cold Palm ]
[ Why Do The Black Clouds Follow You, Coming Out @ The
Worst Moments ]
[ When You Are So Spent ]
[ After A Day Of Searching For True Solace ]
[ All You Do Is Get Yourself Into Another Mess ]
[ In Your Dream You Were Looking For True Solace, But Got
Interrupted ]
[ The Good Dream Never Continued ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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