(120)▪︎[ It Is A Sad World … 2026 ]

[ In A World Full Of Rampant Non-Compliance ]
[ & Brash Defiance ]
[ How Can You Ever Hope For Any Slight Form Of Compliance? ]

[ Domestic Violence Is On The Rise ]
[ After The ‘VID’19 Forced Everyone To Shelter In Place Years Ago ]
[ This Should Not Come As A Surprise ]

[ Men Are Not The Only One’s To Lose Their Cool ]
[ Women Are Now Picking Up & Throwing A Chair Or Stool ]
[ Making Each Party Looking Like A Fool ]

[ Sister & Brother ]
[ Are Attacking Each Other ]
[ It Is Not Even Safe Being A Father Or Mother ]

[ Homeless Shelters Are Over Flowing ]
[ The Prices Of Gas & Food Does Not Seem To Be Slowing ]
[ Nobody Knows Where The Economy Is Going ]
[ There Is No Absolute Knowing ]

[ Or Foretelling The Future ]
[ The Earth Is Being Wrecked By Disasters ]
[ Brought On By Mother Nature ]

[ Mother Nature Seems To Want To Shake Us Off Of Her Earth ]
[ Maybe She Wants The World ]
[ To Go Through A Rebirth ]
[ She Gave Us Thousands Of Years To Prove Our Worth ]

[ Humans Have Failed ]
[ A Huge Part Of This Country’s Men Have Been Jailed ]

[ Living A Slow Death Locked Up In A Governmental Cage ]
[ Hundreds Of Men Full Of Rage ]

[ Forced To Live In The Same Small Space ]
[ Because They Committed Crimes ]
[ That Took Them Out Of The Human Race ]

[ Cars & Factories Are Putting A Huge Hole In The Ozone Layer ]
[ Thousands Of Home Owners Have Now Been Relegated To Live Out Their Days In Small Trailers ]
[ Humans Have Proven That We As A Whole Society Are Failures ]

[ The ‘VID’19 Caused So Many Business’s To Close ]
[ When These Owners Started Out This Was Not What They Chose ]

[ Then Poof ]
[ The Number Of Suicides Went Through The Roof ]
[ Just Look @ The Numbers If You Want Proof ]

[ The Poor Just Want Something To Eat ]
[ The Rich Are Fed By Nothing But Greed ]

[ There No Longer Is Such A Thing As “Middle Class” ]
[ Like There Used To Be In The Past ]

[ Violent Person -to- Person Crimes Went Up Like A Bottle Rocket ]
[ Just So Some People Could Put A Little More Money In Their Pocket ]

[ Many Generational Farms Are Shutting Down ]
[ Every Summer ]
[ Fire Wipes Out Another Town ]
[ When That Happens ]
[ Everyone Has The Tears Of A Sad Clown ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(114)▪︎[ The Broken Memory … 2026 ]

[ If You Were To Throw Your (2) Cents Into The Ring ]
[ Would Anybody Take That & Do Anything? ]
[ On The Open Market How Much Would Your (2) Cents Bring? ]

[ A Nickel, Or Maybe A Dime? ]
[ It Sure Would Be A Crime ]
[ If Your (2) Cents Did Not @ Least Buy Someone’s Time ]

[ Deep Down, You Think You Are Kind Of Smart ]
[ & If Somebody Were To Tear You Apart ]
[ They Would @ Least Find That You Have A Big Heart ]

[ You Tried To Show Others A Good Example Of How To Live ]
[ You Tried To Write A Good Story To Give ]

[ Some Would Say That You Tried To Live In A Great Big Bubble ]
[ Surrounded By The Few People That You Love ]
[ You Wanted To Live Your Life Away From The Trouble ]

[ That Tries To Swallow Up Society ]
[ There Is Barely Any Happiness ]
[ Or Signs Of A Calm State Or City ]

[ Sometimes In Your Quest To Find Happiness You Have To Reach Deep Down Inside Yourself ]
[ You Can’t Rely On Someone Else ]

[ Life In Today’s Society Has Become A Kill Or Be Killed Environment ]
[ WOW, All Of The Years You Spent ]
[ To Make A Cent ]

[ All Of Those Days Spent In The Gym Preparing Your Body For Old Age ]
[ Was A Waste ]
[ & Only Your Clear Mind Keeps You From Flying Into A Full Lunatic Rage ]

[ Take All Of Your Supplements & Eat Well ]
[ Oh Swell ]
[ That Was Very Little Protection From Those That Said They Were Family ]
[ & Dragged Your Life Through Hell ]

[ True Family Are The Ones That You Choose Along The Way ]
[ But You Sure Have Been Fooled ]
[ By Those Honest Liars That Choose Not To Stay ]
[ & Run Away ]

[ Those Were The People That You Needed The Most ]
[ But When You Reached Out To Them ]
[ They Turned In To A Ghost ]

[ Never Returning Your Call ]
[ Watching From Afar ]
[ As You Fall ]
[ Then Choosing To Go Get Drunk, In Their Favorite Bar ]

[ Memories Of Your Past ]
[ Are Supposed To Last ]
[ Not Dissipate So Fast ]

[ But There Are Those That Wants Your Memory To Be Selective ]
[ Not Collective ]
[ They Want It Broken ]
[ It Is For Their Protection That You Don’t Be Reflective ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(082)▪︎[ Please Do Not Share … 2026 ]

[ In The Last (5yrs) Life Has Seemed To Lost All Of Its Fun ]
[ Whenever You Go Outside You No Longer Seek Out The Warmth & Comfort Of The Sun ]
[ Or You Feel Like Bowing Your Head & Taking Off On A Dead Run ]

[ One Thing That You Still Love To Do Is Give ]
[ One Thing That You Are Losing ]
[ Is Your Will To Live ]
[ That Seems To Be Of Your Own Choosing ]
[ Since Everything Has Been Thrown In A Sieve ]

[ Whenever The Front Door Closes, You Feel Mentally Spent ]
[ You Have No Idea Where Thqe Zest For Life Went ]
[ You Try To Have A Good Day, But That Doesn’t Seem To Make A Dent ]

[ Lately You Wish That You Could Control Your Happiness By Simply Turning A Dial ]
[ Now You Can’t Even Seem To Hold A Smile ]
[ For Much Longer Than Awhile ]

[ You Feel Like You Are Aging Right Before Your Very Own Bloodshot Eyes ]
[ You Are Being Accused Of Telling Lies ]
[ But You Are Not ]
[ You Are Not Like Most Guys ]
[ Go Ahead & Polygraph You Right On The Spot ]

[ You Have No Money To Offer Another Woman ]
[ You Don’t Have The Good Looks Like The Average Man ]

[ You Feel Like Your Kind Is Headed For Extinction ]
[ Because Nothing About You Shines Of Distinction ]

[ In Your Mind, Chivalry Isn’t Dead ]
[ You Thought That Your Life Got A New Start ]
[ The Day You Were Wed ]
[ But Sometimes It Is Your Heart ]
[ That You Leave Tucked Under Your Pillows On The Bed ]

[ You Have Escaped Death Now More Than (9) Times ]
[ You Have Committed Zero Crimes ]
[ You Have Written Thousands Of Poetic Stories That Rhyme ]

[ You Felt That Over (23yrs) Ago You Found True Joy ]
[ When Your Wife Gave Birth To Your Only Child ]
[ A Boy ]
[ Raising Him Was Like Maneuvering A Canoe Down The River Nile ]

[ That Joy Did Not Last All That Long ]
[ You Cannot Pinpoint When Everything Started Going Wrong ]
[ Was The Father-Son Bond Ever That Strong? ]

[ There Is Something That You Do Know ]
[ Your Relationship Now ]
[ Sure Is One Big Shit Show ]

[ Things Have Happened Way In The Past That Still Affect You Now ]
[ You Want To Forgive & Forget ]
[ P.T.S.D. Really Affects Your Ability To Figure Out How ]
[ When You Try To Move In That Direction Your Feet Feel Like They Are In Concrete That’s Wet ]

[ Is This Something Like Your Big Cry For Help? ]
[ Well, If Life Was A Business That You Visited ]
[ It Would Get A Horrible Rating On Yelp ]

[ You Feel Like You Are (0-4) As Far As Parents Go ]
[ You Kind Of Feel The Names “Mom & Dad” Are Just Words, With Zero ]
[ Lasting Glow ]

[ Oh Hell ]
[ With Models Like Them ]
[ No Wonder Parenting Did Not Go So Well ]

[ You Know That People Are Going To Throw Their Really Wise (2cents) In ]
[ The Ring ]
[ Well Those People Can Take Their Bony Pointer Fingers & Sit & Spin ]
[ Tell Them It Won’t Sting ]
[ If They Don’t Even Begin ]

[ To Say Whatever Advice Or Words That They Want To Say ]
[ On Anyday ]
[ In Any Way ]

[ You Have A Very Small Circle Of Family That You’ve Made ]
[ There Is Not A Single Person In Your Circle That You Would Trade ]
[ Or Tell To Stand In The Shade ]

[ Each Person Brings So Many Things To Your Life ]
[ No One Has Ever Grabbed Your Throat & Threatened You With A Knife ]
[ The Sunshine Used To Shine On You Through The Smile Of Your Wife ]

[ Not So Much Anymore ]
[ Instead Of The Smile Being A Window To Her Soul ]
[ She Has Shut Down As Easy As It Is To Close A Door ]
[ & Your Marriage Has Tumbled Down A Rabbit Hole ]

[ You No Longer Feel Free ]
[ You Can No Longer See ]
[ How Good Things Could Be ]

[ You No Longer See The Bright Side Of The Street ]
[ Your Emotions Feel Beat ]

[ Down ]
[ You Now Have A Perpetual Frown ]
[ You Look Like You Have Shed The Tears Of A Sad Clown ]

[ Where Can You Hide ]
[ How Many Times Have You Felt That You Were Just Along For The Ride? ]
[ How Many Times Has Your Heart Died ]
[ & Unfortunately Been Revived? ]

[ Because You Don’t Want To Hurt Anyone ]
[ The Reasons That You Are Saying This To Each & Every Single One ]
[ Is Because You Love Them A Ton ]

[ To All Of Your Friends That You Are Sending This To ]
[ You Are Writing Them This Story Because You Did Not Know What Else You Could Do ]
[ If Any Of Them Have Thought That You Have Recently Seemed Distant ]
[ This Story Just Might Be A Small Clue ]

[ You Are Struggling ]
[ & It Is Depression & Fear That You Have Been Juggling ]
[ It Is Your Fear Of The Unknown Future That You Find Troubling ]

[ It Is Uncanny ]
[ How Many ]

[ Times The Years Have Passed You By ]
[ & How Many Issues Have You Failed To See Eye-to-Eye! ]
[ Whenever You See Your Friends ]
[ You Want To Say, “Hello”, Not “Goodbye” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(071)▪︎[ Here Is The Deal … 2026 ]

[ Some Days It Feels Like Frustration & Despair Drips From Every Pore ]
[ You Feel Like You Cannot Take Anymore ]

[ Accusations & Stress ]
[ How In The World Can You Get Out Of This Mess? ]
[ Every Single Night You Can Only Guess ]

[ About What Is Going To Happen When The Sun Melts Into The Ocean ]
[ You Wish You Could Foresee When The Commotion ]

[ Will Come Upon You ]
[ Because As It Stands ]
[ There Never Is Some Kind Of Social Cue ]
[ That Demands ]
[ Your Attention Like A Hidden Clue ]

[ There Is Never A Path Of Rice Crispis To Follow ]
[ Words Without Any Actions ]
[ Come Across Hollow ]

[ You Can’t Keep Hitting Your Head Against The Concrete Wall In Your Mind ]
[ In Real Life, It Causes You To Fall Behind ]
[ But In Your Head, It Seems Like You Are Blind ]

[ Because You Used To Be Good @ Reading The Writing On The Walls ]
[ But Now, In Today’s World, You Now Have To Read Between The Lines ]
[ You Used To Hope For Comforting Calls ]
[ & Reading Signs ]

[ You Just Are No Good ]
[ @ Those (2) Things ]
[ Now, Information Is Misunderstood ]
[ & Good Deeds Are Attached By Strings ]

[ You Are A Dinosaur Trying To Live To Be (65) ]
[ How Can You Have Any Chance To Thrive ]
[ When You Don’t Even Drive? ]

[ You Have To Always Ask For A Ride ]
[ Being @ The Mercy Of Others ]
[ Sure Can Take Your Pride ]
[ For A Ride ]
[ You Can’t Even Talk To Your Brother ]
[ About The Pain You Feel Inside ]

[ So Who Can You Trust That Will Treat Your Feelings Real? ]
[ Who Can You Talk To About How You Truly Feel? ]
[ If They Want You To Make A Promise ]
[ Tell Them, “I Will Only Make You A Deal!” ]

[ You’ve Seen People Using A Promise As A Token ]
[ That’s Why People Think That Nothing Happens If A Promise Is Broken ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(066)▪︎[ You Deserve To Be Heard … 3•16•2026 ]

[ @ The End Of The Day ]
[ You Need To Find A Way ]

[ To Use Your Voice ]
[ Even Though Those Around You Only Call It Noise ]

[ Trust Your Gut More ]
[ Make Your Presence Known ]
[ When You Come In The Door ]

[ Stand-Up & Be Yourself ]
[ Don’t Try To Pattern Your Actions After Someone Else ]

[ You Will Learn ]
[ You Don’t Have To Be Loud ]
[ To Be Heard ]
[ When In A Crowd ]

[ Purge Your Mistakes From The Past ]
[ Make The Sound Of Your Words Last ]
[ Don’t Be Discouraged So Fast ]

[ It Has Become Crystal Clear ]
[ That You Have A Voice That The Masses Should Hear ]

[ Listen To The Waves Breaking ]
[ Onto The Sand ]
[ There Is No Such Thing As Faking ]
[ When You Are In Demand ]

[ Don’t Turn Weak & Melt ]
[ Stand & Tighten Your Belt ]
[ Then Make Your Presence Felt ]

[ Smile In The Face Of Danger ]
[ Be Steadfast ]
[ Never Let Them See Your Anger ]

[ Stay Humble When Facing The Shouting ]
[ Be The Calm One In The Room ]
[ To Start Them Doubting ]

[ Never Let Them Cause You To Be Weak ]
[ When You Have A Point To Make, Than Speak ]

[ When Speaking Your Mind ]
[ Always Try To Be Kind ]

[ You Weren’t Put On This Earth To Spew Hate ]
[ Then You Can Anticipate ]
[ Your Fate ]

[ Because Ever Since Your Birth ]
[ You Have Had To Prove Your Worth ]
[ On This Earth ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(140)▪︎[ It Was Something … 2026 ]

[ The Most Important Tool That Everyone Has, Is A Voice ]
[ The Next Important Tool ]
[ That Everyone Has, Is A Choice ]

[ The Choice To Use Their Voice Or Not ]
[ But Is Choice, The Only Thing That You’ve Got? ]
[ That Won’t Rot? ]

[ So … ]
[ You Say ]

[ Prove With Man Power That Is Such ]
[ You Bet It Would Not Take That Much ]

[ Even Though The Choice Is Yours ]
[ You Need To Pick Your Time ]
[ If You Are Down On All Fours ]
[ Are You Worth A Dime? ]

[ Naw … ]
[ That Is Not What You Saw ]
[ Now You Feel Kind Of Raw ]

[ What You Saw Wasn’t Nothing ]
[ It Was Actually Something ]
[ Or Was It Just A Simple Thing? ]

[ So Is This The Proof? ]
[ Or Is This Some Form Of Spoof? ]
[ That Brings Together The Group ]
[ But It Does Not Have The Makings Of A Legitimate Goof ]

[ Because Proof Would Always Be In The Pudding ]
[ If That Was True ]
[ Would This Be Including ]
[ Or Is This Story Concluding? ]

______________________

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(052)▪︎[ All Kinds Of Despair In A Day … 2026 ]

[ Despair ]
[ Sure Can Collapse A Whole Day ]
[ Especially When There Is Zero Hope For Repair ]
[ In Any Way ]

[ A Haze Takes Over The Brain ]
[ Simple Thoughts Become A Strain ]
[ You Feel Like You Are The Lone Passenger On An Amtrack Train ]

[ Going Nowhere Fast ]
[ You Constantly Feel Beat Up ]
[ By The Mistakes From Your Past ]

[ Each One Leaving A Wide Gash On Your Soul ]
[ Leaving You Trying To Pick Up All Of The Broken Puzzle Pieces Of Your Life ]
[ Trying To Cover Your Head Up When You Dropped Into A Bottomless Rabbit Hole ]
[ When You Were Running From All Of The Strife ]

[ That Floats Like Pollution In The Air Out In Society ]
[ You Have Trouble Walking ]
[ Because Of The Gravity ]
[ Of All The Negative Talking ]

[ You Cannot Walk From One Corner To The Next ]
[ Without People Being Angry ]
[ Because They Just Read An Inflammatory Text ]

[ On Their $2000 Apple Phone ]
[ Because They Did Not Like The Tone ]
[ Of A Message They Received ]
[ From A Relative That Does Not Even Live In The Same Time Zone ]

[ You Kind Of Get The Feeling That The Telephone Was Not Invented So Someone That Lives Clear Across The Country Could Reach Out & Grab You By The Throat ]
[ Just Because They Were Given Some Sticky-Note ]
[ Informing Them About From Which Side Of The Aisle You Usually Vote ]

[ Politics Was Not Meant To Be There To Make Threats ]
[ & Those Are Not Made In Jest ]

[ How Do You Ever Rebound ]
[ From A Day That Literally Beat Your Self-Esteem ]
[ Into The Ground ]
[ & Squashed Your Most Important Dream? ]

[ You’ve Found That Real Dreams Really Do Not Come True ]
[ & Most People Who Have Ever Given You Their Word ]
[ Never Follow Through ]

[ Nowadays Another Person Can Shake Your Hand While Looking You Straight In Both Eyes ]
[ While Telling You Some Of The Biggest Lies ]
[ & This Is Not Only Done By The Shadiest Guys ]

[ Often Times The Worst Things Said Or Done To You Are By The Relatives Or People You Grew Up With ]
[ Just Ask Anybody That Has Kept A List ]
[ Of People They Loaned Money To, Then Got Stiffed! ]

[ What You Have Come To Hate ]
[ Is You Had To Wait ]
[ To Learn That Lesson, A Day Too Late ]

[ Because Now You Are More ]
[ Than A Dollar Too Short ]

[ To Pay Your Own Mortgage & Medical Bills ]
[ You Won’t Receive Compensation ]
[ Out Of Anybody’s Wills ]
[ Because You Overheard An Attorney’s Conversation ]

[ You Don’t Even Know Who You Want To Will Your Possessions To Whenever Your Time Will Come ]
[ By Then Any Of The Benefactors That You Choose ]
[ Will Either Be Too Numb ]
[ To Care ]
[ Or Will Want To Take Off & Run ]
[ Because They Won’t Want To Share ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(051)▪︎[ The Outcome Remains The Same … 2026 ]

[ Throuughout The Years You Have Tried To Shout ]
[ From The Inside Out ]

[ That Your Heart Has Been Scarred ]
[ & You Your Self-Confidence ]
[ Has Been Charred ]

[ Like A Piece Of Steak That Was Forgotten On The Outside Barbecue ]
[ Even If Given To The Dog ]
[ She Wouldn’t Have A Clue ]
[ About What She Needed To Do ]

[ When Some Incidents Happen, They Don’t Fade Into The Past ]
[ Very Fast ]
[ Depending On The Severity Of The Incident ]
[ The Complete Memory Can Last & Last ]

[ Then ]
[ & When ]
[ This Begins To Happen ]

[ Your World Is Then Turned Upside Down ]
[ You Walk Around Town ]
[ With A Permanent Frown ]
[ Feeling Like You Look Like A Crying Clown ]

[ Not Worthy Of A Single Shiny Dime ]
[ Not Worth Anyone’s Time ]
[ Feeling Like The Only Way That You Could Ever Get Noticed ]
[ Would Be If You Committed Some Really Violent Crime ]

[ You Don’t Have The Talent Or The Looks ]
[ To Write Stories ]
[ Or Get Noticed In Any Kind Of Fashion Magazine Or Book ]

[ There Is No Such Thing As A Copywrite Law For Failure ]
[ Not With Your Short Stature ]
[ You Can Only Get Noticed As Being The Smallest Biggest Complainer ]

[ You Try, Try & Try ]
[ Sometimes You Ask Yourself, “Why?” ]
[ “Is It Only In An Attempt To Just Get By?” ]
[ Has Everything You’ve Been Telling Yourself In The Last (31yrs) Been One Big Lie? ]

[ What About The Lies That You Have Been Told By Others? ]
[ Especially By People That Want You To Look @ Them ]
[ As Fathers Or Mothers! ]

[ It Was Made Perfectly Clear ]
[ That After A Few Days, A Week Or Even A Couple Of Years ]
[ They No Longer Wanted You Near ]

[ Wherever That May Be ]
[ You Lost Your First Set Even Before You Turned (3) ]
[ & This Last Set Before You Turned (62) ]
[ All Of Your Parental Units Just Wanted To Be Free ]
[ They Should Have Dropped Some Kind Of Clue ]

[ So Here You Remain ]
[ You Saw, You Are Here & Then You Came ]
[ All Through The (3) Parental Units ]
[ You Foolishly Changed Your Name ]
[ Now You See Life As One Big Game ]
[ Try As Hard As You Could ]
[ But The Outcome Remains The Same ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(026)▪︎[ What Has Happened? … 2026 ]

[ When Did Manners & Humanity ]
[ Leave Society? ]
[ You Are Not Talking About Being Political Correct ]
[ To Gain Publicity ]
[ You Bring Up The Subject In An Attempt To Re-Connect ]
[ Publicly ]

[ No, The Political Correct Terminology ]
[ Seemed To Try To Strike A Nerve ]
[ In Sociology ]
[ Then It Tried To Take A Turn ]
[ Into The Field Of Psychology ]

[ Not To Dampen The Spirits ]
[ Of Those That Believe In Terms Like That ]
[ Or To Cause Rifts ]

[ Being Politically Correct Is Just Being Nice ]
[ But On Unnecessary Steroids ]
[ If That Makes You Squirm & Think Twice ]
[ Then You Shouldn’t Have To Think About It Too Hard & Cause Yourself Hemorrhoids ]

[ Some People Would Rather Fight ]
[ On Sight ]
[ Instead Of Being Polite ]
[ & To Those People ]
[ You Kind Of Wish Them An Early Goodnight ]

[ & It Seems In The Younger Generation’s Heads ]
[ Chivalry Really Is Dead ]

[ Few Men ]
[ Holds The Door Open ]
[ For Incoming Women ]
[ When ]
[ & Then ]

[ A Woman Stands Behind Them ]
[ When You Think Of Human Decency ]
[ This Has Become A Big Problem ]
[ Actually, Only Recently ]

[ Nobody Thinks About The Other Person ]
[ Drug Addicts Do Not Want To Go Through Diversion ]
[ Everyone Should Try To Go On Daily Excursions ]

[ To See How They Can Change ]
[ No Matter How Deranged ]
[ & No Matter How Strange ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(037)▪︎[ Why Do You Ever Let Yourself Feel? … 2026 ]

[ Living In The Season Of Regret ]
[ Is No Longer An Option ]
[ There Has Never Been Anything Met ]
[ That Wasn’t Made Into An Obligation ]

[ Living With Regrets On Your List Of Things To Do ]
[ Is Not A Good Thing To Go Through ]

[ You Carry Your Regrets Like Stones In Your Chest ]
[ Never Giving You Any Rest ]
[ Always Feeling Bothered By This Pest ]

[ They Rattle @ Night When The Rest Of The World Is Asleep ]
[ Stirring Up Old Memories ]
[ That You Never Planned To Keep ]

[ Buried Beneath All That Was Unsaid ]
[ Causing You To Increase Your Anti-Psychotic Med ]
[ Because Of The Thoughts ]
[ Your Regrets Increase In Your Head ]

[ Stirring Up Old Deals, That You Failed To Keep ]
[ Kept You Getting Some Really Deep ]
[ Sleep ]

[ Buried Beneath All The Things That Was Left Unsaid During Your Walks On Your Life Path ]
[ The Words Went Clear Up Over Your Head, Really Fast ]

[ You Thought That You Found A Woman Early On In Your Life ]
[ When She Talked, Her Words Felt Like Warm Sunlight That Filled The Soul ]
[ When She Agreed To Become Your Wife ]
[ That Was The Very First Time That You Felt Completely Whole ]
[ You Thought That She Wouldn’t Bring You Any Strife ]
[ When She Stepped Into Her Role ]

[ But You Remember The Chances That You Asked Her To Stay ]
[ That One Day ]
[ But She Wouldn’t ]
[ So You Turned & Walked Away ]
[ Because She Wanted ]
[ To Find A Man Who Made Better Pay ]

[ You Never Thought That You Would Have Lost Her Over Money ]
[ You Saw That She Wanted To Find A Quicker Path Fast ]
[ To The Land Of Milk & Honey ]
[ & Run From Her Past ]

[ You Kept Hearing The Words “Later & Soon” ]
[ While The Clock Kept Humming A Merciless Tune ]
[ You Would Sit Outside Before It Was Noon ]
[ & Watch The Sky Change ]
[ As The Sun Relinquished Her Throne To The Moon ]

[ You Wished Upon Many A Fallen Star ]
[ You’d Drive Out In The Country ]
[ Then Turn The Lights Off On Your Car ]
[ But None Of Your Wishes Got You Very Far ]

[ Very Few Times Opportunity Came With A Soft, Hopeful Sound ]
[ But Your Fear Held The Lock ]
[ So You Stayed Homebound ]
[ & You Never Heard A Knock ]

[ It Seemed That There Were Hands That You Failed To Take ]
[ Whenever Someone Would Extend Their Hand ]
[ Your Whole Body Would Shake ]
[ Because You Were Afraid Of What They Would Demand ]

[ You Would Say, “I’m Fine” When Instead You Needed To Cry ]
[ You Always Wondered, “Why?” ]
[ “Was The Bar Set So High?” ]
[ Time & Time Again, Because Of That ]
[ You Did Not Even Want To Try ]

[ Pride Became Your Armour, Heavy & Cold ]
[ Protecting Your Fear ]
[ While Costing You Silver & Gold ]
[ It Became Clear ]
[ That Opportunities Dried Up As You Got Old ]

[ You Have Come To Regret Your Silence ]
[ When Others Needed To Be Led When They Would Hear Voice ]
[ You Really Tried To Stay Away From All Of The Violence ]
[ If You Had A Conscious Choice ]

[ The Roads You Avoided & The Chances You Were Denied ]
[ Made You Push Your Pain ]
[ Deep Down Inside ]

[ It Caused You To Look @ Life Through Foggy Glass ]
[ Maybe That Is Why Life Seemed To Pass ]
[ So Fast ]

[ When You Sleep, Faces Come Visit You In The Dark ]
[ It Causes You To Put Your Drive For Life In Park ]
[ Everytime You Have Those Repetitive Dreams ]
[ They Left A Permanent Mark ]

[ In You Brain ]
[ It Is Always Like A Camera Taking A Freeze Frame ]
[ Of A Fast Moving Train ]

[ Causing Your Vision To Cross ]
[ By The Time It Took Your Eyes To Uncross ]
[ You Couldn’t Fathom Your Loss ]

[ Can You Ever Rewind ]
[ Your Mind? ]
[ Sad To Say ]
[ That Father Time Has Never Been That Kind ]
[ If He Stopped The Day ]
[ In Any Way ]
[ You Would Wake Up & Wonder Why You Felt So Far Behind? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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