[ 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 ]
Category: [ Poetic Stories ]
(612)▪︎[ Bend, Don’t Break … 7•7•2020 ]
A[ Sometimes To Survive In Life, You Have To Have The Attitude
Of ( WHATEVER IT TAKES ) ]
[ Your Mind Can’t Get The Mental Shakes ]
[ But How Do You Continue To Stay Strong ]
[ In A World ]
[ Where There Is So Much Wrong? ]
[ Is Strength Only In The Mind Of The User? ]
[ Is Violence Only In The Hand Of The Abuser? ]
[ Mind Over Matter Is Something People Say ]
[ When You Mind ]
[ It Doesn’t Matter In Its Own Special Way ]
[ Feeling Pain ]
[ Does Not Have To Make You Feel Insane ]
[ In The Brain ]
[ Sometimes The Blame ]
[ Can Only Be Its Name ]
[ & When That Is Tame ]
[ There Should Be No Shame ]
[ In How You Feel ]
[ With That Deal ]
[ But Only If The Feelings Are Real ]
[ Dealing With The Feelings Is The Real Catch ]
[ They Must Be Under Control ]
[ Before New Problems Hatch ]
[ Out Of Cracked Eggs ]
[ Look @ Them Head On ]
[ Before They Grow Legs ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(611)▪︎[ What Inspires … 7•6•2020 ]
[ Someone Once Said That True Focus Lies Between Serenity
& Rage ]
[ Does That Mean You Must Independently ]
[ Keep Your Heart Locked Up In A Cage? ]
[ Or Lock ]
[ It Up In A Box? ]
[ Does True Focus Get Us Through The Hurt & Pain? ]
[ When You Put Yourself Out There ]
[ What Are You Looking To Gain? ]
[ Hurt & Pain Makes Me Go Inside ]
[ My Mind ]
[ Sometimes I Feel The Need To To Hide ]
[ The Button That Says Rewind ]
[ Rewind & Remind Makes Me Go Through The Pain ]
[ Again & Again ]
[ & That Is About As Fun ]
[ As Saying You’re Done ]
[ & Then Going Out For A Run ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(604)▪︎[ Everything Looks Nice … 7•4•2020 ]
[ One Person Said ( NO AMOUNT OF MONEY EVER BOUGHT
A SECOND OF TIME ) ]
[ Does That Mean Every Hour Lost ]
[ Would Not Even Cost You A Dime? ]
[ What About An Hour Wasted On Frivolous Things? ]
[ Does That Make Time & Money ]
[ Be Attached By Thin Strings? ]
[ One Can’t Buy The Other ]
[ & One Cannot Buy Another ]
[ Another Second, Hour Or Day ]
[ When Time Has Been Wasted ]
[ Things Have A Tendency To Stay ]
[ That Way ]
[ Time & Money Would Be In A Wasted Heap ]
[ Just Tossed Aside ]
[ Because You Think That Time Is Cheap ]
[ Time Cannot Be Bought ]
[ But Money Can Buy A Clock ]
[ Where You Can Watch Time Fly By ]
[ The Time That Money Cannot Buy ]
[ Is Their A Vast Difference Between Wasted Time & A Wasted
Dollar? ]
[ Wasted Time May Not Even Get A Whisper ]
[ But Wasting Money Gets A Loud Hollar ]
[ One Dollar Or Many ]
[ Nobody Ever Wants To Waste A Penny ]
[ But A Penny Saved, Is A Penny Earned ]
[ If Time Is Money ]
[ Do You Ever Want The Clock To Be Turned ]
[ Backward In A Counter Clock Motion ]
[ If Timed Stood Still ]
[ Would It Fall Into The Ocean? ]
[ To Never Be Recovered Again ]
[ But If Found ]
[ Would That Be When Time Begins? ]
[ Begin Or Not ]
[ We All Know That Time Cannot Be Bought ]
[ Or Was That The Point That You Forgot? ]
[ Then Always Be Thankful For Whatever You’ve Got ]
[ Out Of Life ]
[ Because When You Forgot But Then Turned On The Light ]
[ Don’t You Think That Everything Looks Twice ]
[ As Nice? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(603)▪︎[ Friends … 7•3•2020 ]
[ Are Friends What Makes The World Go Around? ]
[ They Help You Keep Your Feet Firmly On The Ground ]
[ They Are There When They Are Needed ]
[ Their Advice Is Heeded ]
[ Friends Are There With A Kind Word Or Two ]
[ They Show Empathy With Your Problems ]
[ So You Know It’s Just Not You ]
[ With The Problems You Have ]
[ That Makes The Problems Not Seem So Bad ]
[ Their Love ]
[ Fits Like A Glove ]
[ Over Your Heart ]
[ Because Sometimes There Are Long Stretches Of Time When
You Are Apart ]
[ But When You Do Talk To Them It Feels Like The Good Old Days ]
[ Then It Feels Like They’ve Never Been Away ]
[ & When You Hang Up The Phone ]
[ The Good Feeling Stays ]
[ There Are Good Friends From High School, College & Facebook ]
[ That You Want To Keep Up On ]
[ So You Go On Their Page To Just Take A Look ]
[ Show That You Care ]
[ & Let Them Know You Were There ]
~ 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 ]
(136)▪︎[ Those Dark Clouds … 2•12•2021 ]
[ Whenever The Dark Clouds Roll In ]
[ I Always Wonder When The Rain Will Begin ]
[ Again ]
[ Does The Rain Have An Alternate Meaning Behind It? ]
[ Something Bad Or Something Legit? ]
[ My Memory Oftentimes Plays Games On My Mind ]
[ Sometimes I Think I Am Ahead Of The Game ]
[ But In Reality I Am Way Behind ]
[ Once I Feel I Have The Answers To The Most Important
Questions In My Life ]
[ Then Reality Hits Me ]
[ & Pushes Me Off Of My Trike ]
[ It Seems That I Am Still Trying To Navigate Forward In The
Human Race ]
[ When I Look Around @ Society ]
[ I Am Trying To Figure Out My Place ]
[ Am I Towards The Front Of The Line Or In The Middle ]
[ It Seems That There Are As Many Questions ]
[ As There Are Riddles ]
[ I Have Seen That It Is Very Clear ]
[ That There Are No ( KNOCK KNOCK ) Jokes Around
Here ]
[ It Is Even Harder To Find Here Or There ]
[ Someone That Wants To Share ]
[ Or Even Someone That Shows They Care ]
[ Alot Of Time Is Spent In Silence To Personally Reflect ]
[ So When You Are In A Conversation You Won’t Constantly
Deflect ]
[ & Lose That Person’s Respect ]
[ It Is An ( I ) World Out There Now It Seems ]
[ To 85% Of Society ]
[ There Is No Longer The Ability To Obtain ( THE AMERICAN
DREAM ) ]
[ & That Seems Sad ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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