[ Prejudice In Any Form ]
[ Should Not Be The Norm ]
[ Or Put Out There ]
[ For Others To Perform ]
[ Either Because Of Height, Weight Or The Color Of
Your Face ]
[ There Should Never Be A Time Or Place ]
[ For Someone To Be Biased Because Of Your Race ]
[ But Others Think That It Is Quite Alright ]
[ To Make Fun Of Someone’s Height ]
[ Why Or How ]
[ Can That Be Right? ]
[ Height Or Race Was Never A Choice ]
[ Being That Tall Or That Color ]
[ The Person Had No Voice ]
[ If You Do Think That They Did, Then What Was Said? ]
[ The Conversation Was Not Just In That Person’s Head ]
[ Was Something Else Heard Instead? ]
[ Weight Is A Whole Different Conversation Altogether ]
[ Losing Weight ]
[ Can’t Change Like The Oregon Weather ]
[ Most Everything Is Off Limits Except If You Are Not On
The Tall Side ]
[ That’s When You Get Comments That Are Hurtful & Snide ]
[ People Should Not Be Hurtful Or Biased Towards Each Other ]
[ Not Every Woman Is Your Sister Or Mother ]
[ But You Can Treat Other Men ]
[ As Well As You Would Treat Or Welcome Him As A Brother ]
[ To Help Everyone Cope ]
[ Don’t Treat Anybody Like A Dope ]
[ On Any Scope ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
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(942)▪︎[ Don’t Let Them … 7•13•19 ]
A[ Let ‘Em Laugh ]
[ Let ‘Em Spin ]
[ But Don’t Let Them Cut You In Half ]
[ & Win ]
[ Where Do You Start? ]
[ When Do You Finish? ]
[ Do You Give It Your Heart? ]
[ Or Is That Just A Wish? ]
[ When You Watch What You Say ]
[ & Then Figure Things Out ]
[ You’ll Come To The Day ]
[ When You Figure Out What Life Is All About ]
[ When You Play To Win, Not Lose ]
[ You Make The Conscious Choice ]
[ To Choose ]
[ Of Whether Or Not To Use Your Voice ]
[ Or Drown Your Sorrows In Some Booze ]
[ Alcohol Is Not The Choice That You Should Make ]
[ There Could Be ]
[ The Chance When You Wake ]
[ Your Head Could Feel Like You’ve Been Through An Earthquake ]
[ When Your Head Rattles & Rolls ]
[ It’s Your Body That Takes The Toll ]
[ Each & Everytime You Come To ]
[ You Are Less Than Whole ]
[ In Today’s Society ]
[ Much Less Your Own Family ]
[ One Day You’ll Wake & See ]
[ How Things Are No Longer Free ]
[ & How Destructive Your Behavior Can Be ]
[ To Yourself ]
[ & To Everyone Else ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(888)▪︎[ Grief Is … 10•21•2020 ]
[ Grief Is Such A Tricky Thing ]
[ You Can Never Know The Amount Of Emotions
It Can Bring ]
[ One Minute You Are Up & Then The Next You Are
Down ]
[ On Your knees ]
[ Staring @ The Ground ]
[ Tears Rolling Down Your Face Dripping Down Your
Chin ]
[ Eyeballs Rolling Back ]
[ Because The Scenery Around You Is Starting To Spin ]
[ But Then It’s Gone ]
[ As Fast As It Came On ]
[ You Pick Yourself Up & Say That You Are Doing
Okay ]
[ Maybe For That Moment ]
[ Maybe For That Day ]
[ But Memories Can Be A Double Edged Sword Of The
Worst Kind ]
[ It All Depends On Which Side Of The Sword ]
[ Landed Upright In Your Mind ]
[ Was It A Blessing ]
[ Memory? ]
[ Or Will It Be Messing ]
[ With A Memory Of Someone That You Will No Longer See? ]
[ Good Times & Bad ]
[ Thinking Of All Of The Regrets That You Had ]
[ Makes You Sad ]
[ When Loved Ones Depart Too Early ]
[ That Could Make You Mad ]
[ The Simplest Thing Can Trigger Your Grief ]
[ But It Is Not So Simple To Find Relief ]
[ You Could Hit The Pills ]
[ & Then The Bottle ]
[ To Make You Extremely Ill ]
[ Alcohol Can Help You Escape YOU ]
[ But You Eventually Wake Up ]
[ So You Never Do ]
[ Grief Is A Snap Of The Finger Away From Starting ]
[ Because You Never Get Over The Dearly Departing ]
[ You May Not Have Known Them Since Birth ]
[ To Gauge Their Total Worth ]
[ On This Earth ]
[ But If You Look Back From The Start ]
[ When They Became A Part ]
[ Of Your Heart ]
[ You Can Let Out A Big Smile ]
[ If Only For A Little While ]
[ Then Tuck Them Away Into Your Quite Large Memory
Bank ]
[ & Saying Their Name Is A Way To Say Thanks ]
[ Then Thrive ]
[ & Stay In Drive ]
[ For As Long As You Are Alive ]
[ Because YOU Still Are ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(878)▪︎[ A Treadmill… 10•20•2020 ]
[ Sometimes Life Seems Like You Are On A
Treadmill ]
[ Trudging Along ]
[ Getting Your Fill ]
[ Of The Garbage That Is Out There In Society ]
[ All For Everyone To See]
[ But Do You Share ]
[ Your Dirty Laundry Out There? ]
[ If You Do, Then Why? ]
[ Why Are You That Type Of Girl Or Guy? ]
[ Walking Through Life Without A Care In The World ]
[ Life Couldn’t Get Any Better ]
[ After You Found Your Number 1 Girl ]
[ But Then You See That The Scenery Never Changes
Around You ]
[ There Are No Bright Yellows Or Pinks ]
[ Only Blue ]
[ That Makes You Think ]
[ ( WELL, WHAT CAN I DO? ) ]
[ Then You Find ]
[ That Nothing Comes To Mind]
[ Damn, You’re Trapped! ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 247 ][ The Need … 3•24•2021 ]
[ Sometimes You Need To Play It Safe & Keep
Things Simple ]
[ Let People See Your Bright Smile & Your Dimples ]
[ When You Come Into The Room You Light Up
The Place ]
[ Especially When You Have That Smile On Your Face ]
[ You Just Give Off This Bright Glow ]
[ That Gives Me Hope That There Is A Pot Of Gold ]
[ @ The End Of The Rainbow ]
[ Actually You Have Been My Pot Of Gold Since We Met ]
[ Once Cupid Bonked Me On The Head That Morning ]
[ My Decision Was Set ]
[ I Had Marriage In My Eyes ]
[ & I Hoped That You Did Not Want To Date Any Other
Guys ]
~ 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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[ 206 ][ I Was Never His … 3•12•2021 ]
[ Everytime He Looked @ Me It Reminded Him That
I Wasn’t His ]
[ When The Subject Of Adoption Came Up ]
[ I Wasn’t Anywhere On His To-Do List ]
[ The Thought Was Just Not There ]
[ Not Anywhere ]
[ He Never Jumped For Joy ]
[ Because He Now Had A Boy ]
[ After Adopting Another Daughter ]
[ That Is All That He Wanted To Father ]
[ After That, He Wanted To Be Done ]
[ In His Deepest, Darkest Nightmares ]
[ He NEVER Wanted A Son ]
[ I Should Have Been For Warned In Advance ]
[ When It Came To Don Wanting Me In Their Family ]
[ I Never Had A Chance ]
[ No Matter How Hard I Tried, Don Treated Me Like
A Zero ]
[ So Since Day One I Never Looked @ Him As My Hero ]
[ He Wouldn’t Teach Or Coach ]
[ He Never Tried ]
[ So The Important Father – Son Connection Was
Just A Hoax ]
[ He Was Supposed To Have Skills On The Basketball
Court, But He Wouldn’t Show ]
[ When It Came Down To Teaching Me ]
[ He Was A Total No-Show ]
[ I Grew Up Constantly Asking ( HOW COME? ) ]
[ Until I Went Numb ]
[ But Then Barbara Filled Me In ]
[ & Told Me The Truth ]
[ There Was No Chance In Hell That I Would Find Love
& Acceptance From Him ]
~ 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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