(805)▪︎[ Should Just Stop! … 9•21•2020 ]

[ I Seem To Say Way Too Much … Alot! ]
[ & That May Put People On The Spot ]

[ I Wish There Was A Little Voice Inside My Head ]
[ That Would Redirect My Thoughts ]
[ Instead ]

[ Then I Recoil In Horror ]
[ Because I Don’t Want To Be Shown To The Door ]
[ If I Said Anymore ]
[ I Don’t Like Being On The Other Side, Looking In ]
[ I’ve Been On That Side Many Times Before ]

[ I Don’t Want To Be There Again ]
[ That Situation Is Not A Win-Win ]

[ There Are Times When I Don’t Know When To Quit ]
[ Those Are The Times Where I Should Sit ]
[ & Not Say Shit ]
[ & Just Be Quiet ]

[ I Can’t Seem To Find The Middle Ground ]
[ I Look All Around ]
[ But There Are No Markers To Be Found ]

[ I Look Left & Then Right ]
[ I Don’t Find A Marker In Sight ]

[ I Get Too Serious, Too Fast ]
[ So People Burnout ]
[ & The So Called Friendship Does Not Last ]

[ But The Fault Falls Completely On My Shoulders ]
[ I Guess I’m Slow To Learn ]
[ As I Keep Getting Older ]

[ Soon, I Will Be Left All Alone ]
[ Not A Single Person Will Throw Me A Bone ]
[ Or Call Or Send Me A Text ]
[ To My Phone ]
[ What Could Be Next? ]
[ Is That How I Will Be Known? ]
[ Oh How I Dislike The Unknown ]

[ As Someone Who Says Too Much? ]
[ ( YA HE’s THE GUY THAT ALWAYS SAYS SUCH ‘N SUCH! ) ]

[ I Guess I Don’t Know When To Stop ]
[ I Don’t Know What Thought To Drop ]
[ Some Day I Will Probably Get Popped ]

[ Because Of The Way ]
[ I Say ]
[ Things That Might Not Be Okay ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(792)▪︎[ The Silence Makes It Strong … 9•17•2020 ]

[ @ Times, Silence, Is The Backbone ]
[ But It Seems To Most ]
[ This Small Fact, Has Never Been Known ]

[ It Stops The Arguing, In It’s Tracks ]
[ Once The Hurtful Words, Have Been Said ]
[ They Can Never Be Taken Back ]
[ Then They Stick Into The Memory Of Their Head ]

[ Then The Mumbling Under Their Breath ]
[ Has You Questioning The Depth ]

[ Of Their Comprehension ]
[ Of The Conversation ]

[ That Was Short In Length ]
[ But Long In Strength ]

[ But Sometimes Words Said Behind A Mask ]
[ Are Hard To Hear ]
[ Then They Have To Ask ]

[ To Be Told Again ]

[ But Only Silence Is Now Heard ]
[ There Should Not Be Another ]
[ Spoken Word ]

[ & Now You Sit Back In Your Chair ]
[ Think About How Things Worked Out There ]

[ Now You Can See How Silence ]
[ Will Not Cause ]
[ The Arguing & Violence ]

[ Case In Point ]
[ Nobody Yelled ]
[ Or Got Bent Out Of Joint ]

[ So There Were No Rules To Bend ]
[ As I Point To This End ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(790)▪︎[ One HUGE Surprise! … 9•16•020 ]

[ Today, Was An Amazing Day ]
[ A Long Time Ago Friend ]
[ Popped Onto To My Messenger To Say ( HEY! ) ]
[ I Had Always Wondered If She Was ( OKAY? ) ]

[ My Curiosity Was Spent ]
[ Because I Had Wondered For Many Years ]
[ Where She Went ]

[ One Minute She Was There ]
[ & Then ]
[ She Was Nowhere ]

[ To Be Found ]
[ She Must Have Had Her Reasons ]
[ So I Never Asked Around ]

[ There Has Never Been Hard Feelings To Hold ]
[ That Would Have Been Uncalled For & Cold ]

[ We Lost Touch Then ]
[ I Always Wondered How She’s Been ]

[ Then She Had A Good Man Come Into Her Life ]
[ He Wanted To Be Her Husband ]
[ & She Really Wanted To Be Steve’s Wife ]

[ She Found In Steve ]
[ That He Would & Could Be Her Rock ]
[ & He Would Never Leave ]
[ After Many Hours Of Talk ]
[ She Found Out That He Had Nothing To Hide Up His Sleeve ]

[ Their Solid Union Will Last ]
[ Because She Is Able To Get Over Her Past ]

[ She Says She Knows She Is So Sure ]
[ That His Heart & Intentions Are Pure ]
[ & He Is So Good To & For Her ]

[ When She Wrote All Of This, I Was So Glad ]
[ To Hear That The Last 20 Years Have Not Been Sad ]
[ Or Bad ]

[ I Do Not Say This In Jest ]
[ I Had Always Wanted Her To Have The Best ]

[ Her Writings Sounded Happy ]
[ & That Pleases Me ]

[ I Am Happy That It Has Been All Aces That She Holds In Her Hand ]
[ & Things Are Going Well, As Planned ]

[ Her Friendship Meant Alot To Me Back Then ]
[ Nothing Says That We Can’t Be Friends, Again ]
[ I Have Room In My Life To Let Her Come In ]

[ We Were Always Honest & Blunt ]
[ & Kept Everything Up Front ]

[ My Respect For This Woman Cannot Be Measured ]
[ Her Friendship Has Always Been Treasured ]

[ & Will Be Again, Pam ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(788)▪︎[ What On Earth? … 9•16•2020 ]

[ Some Things Can Go Up & Never Come Down ]
[ Have You Ever Seen Dreams Or Smoke ]
[ Hit The Ground? ]

[ When Being Right May Be Wrong ]
[ Is There Ever A Time When Being Weak ]
[ Is Better Than Being Strong? ]

[ If You To Go To Portland, Or Anywhere ]
[ Up There ]
[ Be Aware ]

[ There Have Been Over A Hundred Days Of Unrest ]
[ It Would Not Be Wise Right Now To Be A Guest ]
[ Everywhere You Go You See The Essential Workers ]
[ Giving Their Best ]
[ It Feels Like We Are Smack In The Middle ]
[ Of A Very Hard Social Science Test ]

[ We Seem Unable To Come Up With The Correct Answers ]
[ All Of This Hate & Violence ]
[ Is Becoming One Of Society’s Worst Cancers ]

[ It Spreads & Spreads ]
[ It Attacks The Soul ]
[ & The Head ]
[ It Will Continue To Roll ]
[ Until A Big Part Of Society ]
[ Is Either Injured Or Dead ]

[ Nobody Knows When This Hell On Earth Will Come To
A Stop ]
[ It Stresses People Most Everywhere ]
[ Making Some People Drop ]

[ Will Anyone Dare ]
[ To Care? ]
[ Will Someone Extend Their Hand? ]
[ Or Will They Stand There ]
[ & Stare? ]
[ @ The Fallen Woman Or Man ]


[ To Help Someone Get Back Up & To Be Whole ]
[ Say Or Do Something Good ]
[ To Warm Their Soul ]
[ Does Anyone Want To Take On That Role? ]

[ Now It Seems ]
[ That Some People’s Dreams ]
[ Have Turned Into Nightmares & Loud Screams ]

[ We Have A Virus That Keeps Killin’ ]
[ When You Ask For Help ]
[ Nobody Is Willin’ ]
[ It Seems Like You Cannot Sit Back ]
[ & Just Be Chillin’ ]

[ Stay 6 Feet Apart @ All Times ]
[ & Stores Can Only Accept Credit Or Debit Cards ]
[ Because No One Wants To Touch A Stranger’s Dollars Or Dimes ]

[ Society Is Fast Becoming A Very Impersonal Crowd ]
[ Where We Were Once Proud ]
[ The Majority Has Gone Quiet ]
[ While A Very Very Very Small Group Of People Have Become Destructive
& Quite Loud ]

[ Making Their Actions & Views ]
[ Being Shown Daily On The News ]

[ So Gatherthings That Used To Include ]
[ Everyone ]
[ Are Being Replaced With People Who Are Plain Rude ]
[ To Anyone ]

[ If You Are Not Part Of Their Group ]
[ & In The Loop ]
[ You Are Left In The Kitchen ]
[ Eating Your Soup ]

[ & Start Becoming Reclusive ]
[ Negative ]
[ No Longer Positive ]

[ Because Of All These Fires The Air Is Thick With Smoke ]
[ When You Breathe In ]
[ You Can Start To Choke ]

[ With All Of These Fires ]
[ There Are Actually People That Still Might Say ( EVERYTHING HAPPENS
FOR A REASON ) ]
[ Would They Be A Liar ]
[ If They Can’t Find One For This Years Destructive Fire Season? ]

[ I Guess Some Reasons Can Be Good While Others Can Be Bad ]
[ When I Think Of All Of The Loss I Could Become Mad ]
[ When I Think Of All The Displaced People ]
[ I Could Get Really Sad ]

[ Everywhere You Look It Is So Dry ]
[ Can Mother Nature Give Us Rain? ]
[ Or @ Least Try? ]

[ Mother Nature Is Destroying Itself ]
[ When Tomorrow Comes ]
[ Can She Try Something Else? ]

[ It Seems Like There Are Catastrophies Happening In Many States ]
[ All @ The Same Time ]
[ Making Us To Forever Remember What Happened On These Dates ]

[ Fire Has Destroyed So Many Cars & Houses ]
[ Some Were Only Able To Save Their Kids & Spouses ]

[ Everything They Earned ]
[ They Learned ]
[ Were Gone & Burned ]

[ How Do You Help, What Can You Give? ]
[ What Do People Need? ]
[ So They Can Get Back To Some Form Of Normalcy Where They
Used To Live? ]

[ Some May Never ]
[ Some Things Are Gone Forever ]

[ Has The Word ( HOPE ) ? ]
[ Been Replaced By The Answer ( NOPE ) ? ]

[ Can We Pray For Rain In Tomorrows Weather? ]
[ Together? ]
[ Lately It Seems Like It Is Now … Or Never ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(745)▪︎[ Stickley … 6•3•2020 ]

[ This Story May Come Across As Disrespectful ]
[ To This Person ]
[ But I Needed To Say Something About Some Comments
That He Wrote That Were Very Hateful ]
•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•

[ Dear FB Friends & Love Ones ]
[ I Got An Idea About A Story ]
[ That Turned Out To Be Alot Of Fun ]

[ It Has Come To My Attention About This Most Horrible
Human Being ]
[ He Has Been Texting Some Friends Of Mine ]
[ The Most Disgusting Texts That I Have Ever Seen ]

[ I Have Been Finding Out Real Fast ]
[ That He Is Not Being The Same Person ]
[ That I Remember From My Past ]

[ From The Comments That I Have Been Reading, He Has
Turned Into The Biggest Ass ]
[ Of Our 1981 Class ]

[ The Comments He Made About My Close Friends Spouse ]
[ Made Him Look As Big As A Tiny Field Mouse ]

[ Because It Seems That He Rules His World So Full Of Hate ]
[ I Have A Whole Lot Of Sympathy For His Mate ]

[ Has He Ever Grasped The Meaning Of Loving Thy Neighbor? ]
[ Or Has He Always Been An Angry, Spiteful Hater? ]

[ I Have Really Disliked What He Had Sent To My Friends ]
[ Randy Stickley Attacks The Golden Rule ]
[ Until It Bends ]

[ But He’ll Find, That Karma Has A Way Of Coming Around &
Punching Disgusting People In Their Face ]
[ Putting Those People In Their Rightful Place ]

[ One Thing That He May Soon Find ]
[ Is That He Belongs @ The Back Of The Line ]

[ I Am Not The Kind Of Writer To Call A BHS Classmate Out ]
[ After Reading Those Comments On FB ]
[ There Was A Need For A Story Without A Doubt ]

[ When It Comes To Being High Class & Having Good Taste ]
[ He Has Turned Into A Big Pile Of Human Waste ]
[ & I Don’t Make That Conclusion In Haste ]

[ From What I’ve Heard & Read ]
[ He Has Become Really Sick In The Head ]
[ I Think His Longtime Psychiatrist ]
[ Needs To Increase His Meds ]

[ Because The Right Medications Can Really Work ]
[ But Not On The Type Of Personality ]
[ That Makes Him Such The Jerk ]
[ I Think That He Should Find Out ]
[ That High Doses Of Lithium Comes With Their Own Perks ]

[ Like A Slow Shuffle & Constant Drooling On The Chin ]
[ If He Could Take Himself Out Of Society ]
[ Then We Are The Ones That Win ]
[ If We All Sign A Petition ]
[ We Could Get This Dream To Begin ]

[ I Just Want His Hateful Messages To Come To An End ]
[ & Get Down On His Knees ]
[ Then Give The Biggest Apology To My Beautiful Female Friends ]

[ I’ve Known These Women For A Very Long Time ]
[ Their Show Of Courage & Their Ability To Rise Above The Sewage ]
[ Helped Me Write These Rhymes ]

[ Because When He Stooped So Low To Write All Of That Junk ]
[ His Mirror Made Him Think He Is A Hunk ]
[ His Hateful Words Just Made Him Look Like A Punk ]

[ The Comments Were Aimed @ Their Heart ]
[ Trying To Rip It Apart ]

[ It Always Shows That Men Of His Kind ]
[ Are Only Legends In Their Own Mind ]

[ He Really Showed Lynn & Sami What Kind Of Horrible Man ]
[ He Has Turned Out Be ]
[ I Have Done The Best That I Can ]
[ Even Though I Never Revealed His Big Effort He Gave To Try
To Swindle Me ]

[ I Quickly Saw Through His Act ]
[ Because He Lives In Fantasy Land ]
[ & Hates The Hard Facts ]

[ I’m Sure I Am Going To Get Alot Of Hateful & Threatening Comments
For Writing This ]
[ But To All Of Those Friends Of His ]
[ Let Me Bend Over & I Will Point To What They Can Kiss ]

[ As I Bring This Story To A Positive End ]
[ I Will Always Be Loyal & Stick Up For Every Friend ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(783)▪︎[ No Reasoning … 9•15•2020 ]

[ Sometimes There Is No Reasoning With Someone
That Thinks From The Other Side ]
[ Even Before You Try ]
[ You Know That You Are In For A Bumpy Ride ]

[ What Do You Say? ]
[ How Do You Say It? ]
[ It Could Last More Than A Day ]
[ To Even Discuss A Little Bit ]

[ People Believe What They’ve Heard ]
[ So They Stand Their Ground ]
[ They Won’t Believe Another Word ]
[ Of Anyone Still Standing Around ]

[ Divide & Conquer Is The Mantra In Their Head ]
[ That Has Been The Main Thought ]
[ Ever Since It Was Said ]

[ By The Leader That They Blindly Follow ]
[ When They Are Shown The Facts ]
[ The Words Come Out Hollow ]

[ If Their Leader Said It, Then It Is Sold ]
[ No Matter How Bold ]
[ No Matter How Cold ]
[ You Can Obviously See ]
[ That They Always Do Exactly What They Are Told ]

[ Lost Sheep Is What They Look Like Some Days ]
[ They Will Mimic Their Leaders Ways ]
[ Then They Ignore Those Who Stray ]

[ It Is Never Worth The Effort ]
[ If You Start To Try ]
[ You Probably Should Stop Short ]
[ Then Turn & Abort ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

[ 781 ][ Just 1 Choice … 9•14•2020 ]

[ I Have Gaping Holes In My Heart ]
[ & I Don’t Know How To Close Them ]
[ Before I Completely Fall Apart ]

[ When I Thought That I Really Knew Some People I
Found That I Really Did Not ]
[ I Close My Eyes & Think About What I’ve Got ]
[ I Think About Good Friends ]
[ But I Don’t Have Alot ]

[ 1 Or Two, But Definitely ]
[ Not More Than Three ]
[ I Count 2 Who Actually Checks In With Me ]

[ I Reach Out, But Nobody Is Home ]
[ I Wonder How They Are Doing ]
[ But Nobody Lets Me Know ]

[ If My Accounts Go Quiet, Would Anybody Notice That
I Wasn’t There? ]
[ If I No Longer Shared ]
[ Would Anybody Care? ]

[ I’m Not Throwing Myself A Pity Party Of One ]
[ I Don’t Like Doing That ]
[ Because Those Parties Are Never Fun ]

[ I Am So So Glad That I Don’t Have Any Access To My Meds ]
[ I Would Really Worry About What Is Going On In My Head ]

[ My Little Internal Voice ]
[ Would Only Talk About One Choice ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(387)▪︎[ Wilbur The Pig … 5•3•2021 ]

[ The Book Would Be Called ( CELEBRATE WILBUR … 
     THE OTHER WHITE MEAT ) ]
[ Then The Movie Would Be Called ( THE MORNING MEAL …
     HE IS GOOD TASTING FROM THE SNOUT, TO THE FEET ) ]

[ When Wilbur Would Get Sunburned He Would Always
     Hear ( I SMELL BACON ) Coming From His Brother? ]
[ That Would Make Him Scramble & Hide Behind His Mother ]

[ & Wilbur Never Cared For The Teasing That He Got
     When He Mispronounced His Words ]
[ But When He Would Say Arch-Itecture ]
[ That Was The Funniest Version Of That Word That His Friends
     Had Ever Heard ]

[ Wilbur Was Fun To Be Around In That ( CHARLETTES
     WEB ) Book ]
[ @ That Time In His Life That Was The Best That He Had Ever
     Looked ]

[ Every Day Charlotte Would Get Madder & Madder ]
[ Because Whenever Wilbur Was In The House ]
[ He Would Lose All Control Of His Bladder ]

[ Around Every Corner He Would Stop ]
[ & Squat ]
[ Leaving Charolette To Wonder ( THIS IS WHAT I’ve GOT? ) ]

[ He Would Have Horrible Nightmares When He Would
     Be Yelling ( PLEASE, PLEASE … ) ]
[ ( DON’t TURN MY SKULL INTO A LOAF OF HEAD CHEESE! ) ]

[ Wilbur Started The Countdown Towards The End Of His Life ]
[ One Of His Biggest Regrets Was He Saved His Virginity
     For His Future Wife ]

[ There Were Many Times Where He Noticed A Cute Squiggly
     Female Tail ]
[ & Because He Never Did Anything ]
[ He Only Bought Blow Up Pig Dolls Through The Mail ]

[ He Thinks That Charlotte Fed Him All That She Did, To Make
     Him Even Fatter ]
[ Then One Day He Got Stuck On Top Of The Roof ]
[ When His Brothers Went & Hid The Ladder ]

[ What Was Wilbur Doing Up On The Roof In The First
     Place? ]
[ Compared To The Normal Pigs ]
[ Wilbur Was Fast Becoming The Farms Biggest Disgrace ]

[ He Had Always Heard The Saying ( WHEN PIGS FLY ) ]
[ He Wanted To See If That Was Something True ]
[ Or Was It A Big Lie ]

[ Wilbur Really Tried To Milk His Noteriety ]
[ That Just Showed His Continuing Immaturity ]

[ Charlotte Never Let On About Her True Intentions ]
[ He Never Knew That She Was Taking Him To State
     Fairs ]
[ Because He Was Only Told The She Was Showing Him
     Off During Ordinary Business Conventions ]

[ One Time He Overheard Someone Say ( HE IS AS BIG
     AS A WHALE ) ]
[ When He Stepped Off The Scale ]

[ Wilbur Never Felt That He Should Be Afraid Of Harm ]
[ While He Lived On The Farm ]

[ Until A Strange Man Came Up To Wilbur & Asked Him
     If He’d Ever Heard Of The Dish ( PIGS in a BLANKET )? ]
[ He Told Wilbur That He Would Be The Best Pig That
     He Had Ever Met ]
[ But Definitely Not As A Pet ]

[ One Day Wilbur Just Disappeared & His Story Than Became
     A Fable ]
[ One Night No One Noticed That He Was Joining Them For
     Dinner ]
[ Because He Had An Apple In His Mouth Covered With Barbeque
     Sauce When He Laid There On The Table ]

[ It Was True That Wilbur Had A Lot Of Worth ]
[ Since Birth ]
[ Through Time, It All Depended On His Weight & His Girth ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(062)▪︎[ Others Are Way Too Stressed … 1•17•2021 ]

[ Everyone Around Me Is Stressed Up To Their
     Eyeballs ]
[ Around Every Corner I Turn ]
[ I Run, Right Into Brick Walls ]

[ I Hear Their Words & Pick Up On Their Tone ]
[ So I Guess That Says ]
[ I Need To Do More Things On My Own ]

[ Things Are Said For Informational Purposes @
     Times ]
[ When Words Are Said ]
[ My Mind Tells Me To Read Between The Lines ]

[ Point Out Someone Who Does Not Do That  Every Single
     Day ]
[ I Have Found That Not Everything Was Said ]
[ In Whatever They Are Trying To Say ]

[ Not That Everything Has Hidden Meaning In Between The
     Words ]
[ But After Everything Is Said & Done ]
[ I Sometimes Wonder Did I HEAR What I Just Heard? ]

[ Alot Of Times I Am Right ]
[ & Sometimes I Am Wrong ]
[ But Sometimes The Light ]
[ That I Turn On ]
[ Is Really Bright ]
[ & Strong ]

[ It Is Tough To Give Up Control & Rely On Others ]
[ But As I See ]
[ How Can They Help Me ]
[ If They Are Trying To Handle Their Own Struggles? ]

[ I Know That My Problems Are Not More Important Than
     Theirs ]
[ To Them ]
[ Because Others Do Not Care ]
[ About My Own Personal Problems ]

[ So If I Am Alot More Quiet @ Times ]
[ It Is Not Out Of Disrespect ]
[ I Could Be Writing Rhymes ]
[ About Things That Makes Me Upset ]

[ Whenever I Write A Rhyme ]
[ I Always Feel Like That Was A Good Use Of My Time ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(893)▪︎[ Some Never Change … 10•24•2020 ]

[ The Eyes Are Useless When The Mind Is Blind ]
[ They Can’t Help You See ]
[ That Your Actions @ The Moment Will Put You In
A Bind ]

[ A Closed Mind Will Never Let You Hear ]
[ When Something That Used To Be So Far Away ]
[ Is Now Very Near ]

[ When You Have Those Times When You Think That The
World Stops @ The Tip Of Your Nose ]
[ You Will Find Out That The Consequences You Get ]
[ May Be The Results Of The Choices That You Chose ]

[ On This Path That You Are Now Walking On ]
[ Life Can Become Fragile & Temporary ]
[ You Could Wake Up One Morning & All That You Have
Grown To Love Is Now All Gone ]

[ Maybe @ The Fork In The Road In Your Life ]
[ You Hastily Decided To Go Left ]
[ Before Everyone Else Went Right ]

[ It Is Not So Much That You Took The Easier Low Road ]
[ But It Seemed @ Times ]
[ That You Made Everyone Around You See That You Hardly
Ever Pulled Your Own Load ]

[ Society Knows That They Are A Social Bunch ]
[ Always Loving Companionship For Dinner, Breakfast Or
Lunch ]

[ A Possible Reason Why Society Is Bitter, Anti-Social & Mean ]
[ May Be Because This Virus ]
[ Made Everybody Self Quarantine ]

[ Social Deprivation Can Have Very Harmful Effects]
[ It Can Cause Some People To Disrespect ]
[ Others That They Suspect ]

[ That May Have Contracted & Spread The COVID-19
Deadly Virus ]
[ That Is Harming & Killing Us ]

[ With A Closed Mind, So Goes Your Vision ]
[ A Closed Mind Can Also Cause Division ]

[ Amongst The Family & Friends That Would Always
Stand By Your Side ]
[ Would It Affect Your Pride ]
[ When You Found Out Who Had Constantly Lied ]

[ To Your Face? ]

[ If You Were Not Sure ]
[ Who They Were ]

[ Would You Want To Know Which Girl, Which Guy? ]
[ If So, Why? ]

[ When The Water Gets Turbulent For The Fair Weathered
Friends They Are The First One’s To Bail ]
[ They Will No Longer Return Your Calls ]
[ Or Respond To Your Numerous, Inquiring Emails ]

[ They Will Look & Find ]
[ The Smallest Reasons ]
[ To Erase The Thoughts About You In Their Mind ]
[ & Then Become Devoid Of All Compassion ]
[ As They Decide To Leave You Behind ]

[ You Will Feel That Their Mind Has Shut Off & Shut Down ]
[ So Where Once Your Eyes Saw Pretty Colors ]
[ All They See Now Is Grays & Browns ]

[ But Do Not Lower Yourself & Walk In Their Footsteps ]
[ & Then Do That To Others ]
[ Because You Know How It Feels To Be Left ]
[ By Your Mother & Brothers ]

[ A Closed Mind Prevents You From Growing Throughout
The Upcoming Days, Months & Years ]
[ It Is Not A Guarantee That A Closed Mind Protects You
From The Shedding Of Tears ]

[ Open Your Mind & Eyes Then Take The Headphones Off
Of Your Ears ]
[ & Your Head ]
[ Then Make A Stand To Listen To What Is Said Right Here ]
[ Instead ]

[ Of Trying To Listen To What Is Going On Over There ]
[ For If It Involved You]
[ You Would Hope That They Would Share ]
[ It With You, Too ]

[ Don’t Say ( NOPE ) ]
[ & Jump Ship ]
[ Because You Felt There Was No Hope ]

[ Some People With A Closed Mind Will Stand There For
Awhile ]
[ & Give You Their Best Smile ]
[ All The While ]
[ Wondering What Is Going On Down The Road About A Mile ]

[ Then You Come To Realize Some Close Minded People
Never Intend To Change ]
[ They Feel In Their Mind That Would Be Doing Something
Extremely Strange ]

[ That Is When You Decide To Rearrange Your Priorities
& Make Better Use Of Your Effort & Time ]
[ If You Choose To Put One More Minute Into Them ]
[ That Would Be The Most Egregious Crime ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]