[ Never Be Afraid To Follow Your Dream ]
[ It Could Be Scooping Ice Cream ]
[ Or Playing The Music That Makes Kids Scream ]
[ Politics ]
[ Or Sports ]
[ You Can Also Pick ]
[ Being An Attorney & Defending People In Courts ]
[ How Do You Follow A Dream That Is Only In Your Head? ]
[ The Dream That Only Comes ]
[ When You Are Asleep In Your Bed? ]
[ Are You Afraid That In Real Life It Would Be Unattainable? ]
[ Not Sustainable? ]
[ Or Just Not Able ]
[ To Go Forth ]
[ & Your Dream Dips South ]
[ Instead Of Going Up North ]
[ Does Everything You Have On This Earth ]
[ Prove Or Show Your Worth? ]
[ Dreams May Never Be Completed ]
[ That Does Not Mean You Are Defeated ]
[ Find A Different Path ]
[ Study Psychology ]
[ Philosophy ]
[ Instead Of Math ]
[ Maybe Follow The Bread Crumbs Left By Someone
Before You ]
[ Find Out Why & Where They Stopped ]
[ Then Take It To Places That They Never Knew ]
[ Just Because Someone Came Before You Doesn’t Mean
Things Are Finished ]
[ Go To New Heights That Were Never Wished ]
[ On Before You Arrived ]
[ Show Your Drive ]
[ Keep The Dream Alive ]
[ Rarely Has Anyone Completed Their Journey On Their
First Try ]
[ If You Come Upon Someone Who Says That They Never
Failed ]
[ Then You Have Met Someone Who Tells Lies ]
[ For A Living ]
[ Because That Is What They Are Giving ]
[ Don’t Be A Taker ]
[ Of The Lies From A Faker ]
[ Find Your Path & Head Straight Forward ]
[ See The Dream That You Are Headed Towards ]
[ Don’t Get Too Discouraged Along The Way ]
[ Because Every Sun Rising ]
[ Means It Is A Whole Different Day ]
[ & Then You Might Find It Surprising ]
[ That Your Dream … Has Not Disappeared ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(393)▪︎[ A Sad Boy … 5•8•2021 ]
[ This Is For That One, Sad Boy ]
[ Living Lonely, Without Any Toys ]
[ When You Go To Your Closet, For Some Fun ]
[ You Don’t Find, A Single One ]
[ They Were Taken From You, About Two Years Ago ]
[ For Reasons That You Still, Don’t Know ]
[ One Day They Were Here & The Next Day They Were Gone ]
[ You Don’t Remember What You Did, That Was So Wrong ]
[ To Have Them Taken, When You Were Not There ]
[ & If You Were Asked, You Would Gladly Share ]
[ That Day, Plays Through Your Mind ]
[ Time, After Time ]
[ You Went Down The Street, To The Park ]
[ To Play With Your Friends ]
[ & Then, You Made It Home, Before Dark ]
[ Do You Go To Your Mom Or Dad & Ask ( WHY? ) ]
[ Is It Even, Worth Another Try? ]
[ You Still Have Welts ]
[ From The Last Time, That Your Dad Got Mad & Used His Belt ]
[ You Never Thought ]
[ That He Was Ever, Going To Stop ]
[ All Because, You Drank A Pop ]
[ Without Your Dad’s Permission ]
[ & After Your Admission ]
[ Were The Toys Being Taken Because Of That? ]
[ Being Taken Because Of That One Bad Act? ]
[ Or Was It Because Of The Bank, That You & Your Four
Friends Robbed Over Two Years Ago, Last May ]
[ Your Little Group Of Friends, Just Wanted To Get Paid ]
[ You All Got The Cash ]
[ By Going In & Out, Really Fast ]
[ But Then Your Dad, Caught A View ]
[ Of That Evenings News ]
[ After Stashing Some In The Floor & In A Crawl Space, In The
Hall ]
[ Your Dad Said That He Wanted It All ]
[ Or He Would Make A Call ]
[ So We Had To Give It To Him ]
[ But We Kept What I Bundled Up & Hid In The Wall ]
[ He Had No Clue ]
[ & Neither Did You ]
[ Know That The Story Would Twist ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(813)▪︎[ The Scare … 9•23•2020 ]
[ Today I Had Quite The Scare ]
[ When My Family & I Were Walking Across The Parking Lot ]
[ I Almost Got Hit By A Car ]
[ Because The Driver Did Not Seem Aware ]
[ That I Was There ]
[ The Car Jolted To A Stop Less Than An Inch ]
[ Away ]
[ That Really Made Me Flinch ]
[ I’d Say ]
[ He Almost Got Me With His Hood ]
[ & That Would Not Have Felt Good ]
[ We Got In A Really Bad Accident Several Years Ago ]
[ When That Driver Hit Us, Time Went By So Slow ]
[ He Totaled Our SUV From Door To Door ]
[ But This Near Miss Scared Me More ]
[ I’m No Macho Man That Says ( I WASN’t SCARED ) ]
[ & Walked Across That Parking Lot Because I Was Dared ]
[ The Driver Was Much Older Than I ]
[ Yes He Was That Old ]
[ I Tell You No Lie ]
[ It Was Dusk So I Guess I Could Have Been Hard To See ]
[ & I Guess To Some People ]
[ I’m Barely Taller Than Their Knees ]
[ I Yelled ( STOP ) Because He Did Not @ The Stop Sign ]
[ He Did Not Slow Down @ The Marked White Line ]
[ I Felt Rattled & Shaken, That I Am Sure Of ]
[ But I’m Glad It Was Me ]
[ & Not Someone That I Love ]
[ The Man Rolled Down His Window & Talked With My Wife ]
[ I Kept Walking Because My Head Felt Light ]
[ For The First Time In My Life ]
[ My Balance Did Not Feel Quite Right ]
[ No, My Life Did Not Flash Before My Very Eyes ]
[ That Would Had Been Quite The Surprise ]
[ Maybe This Will Help Me Be An Earlier Riser ]
[ I Only Wish That It Would Make Me Be More Humorous & Wiser ]
[ Now I Am By No Means A Religious Person Like Others
Can Be ]
[ But This Kind Of Helps Me See ]
[ That Maybe GOD Is Not Done With Me ]
[ I Want To Live More ]
[ I Want To Give More ]
[ I Want To Laugh More ]
[ & I Want To Love More ]
[ The Older I Get ]
[ The More I Cherish The People That I’ve Met ]
[ So There Must Be A Good Reason I Bet ]
[ That I’m Not Done Here Yet ]
[ To My Friends & Loved One’s I Cherish You ]
[ Because I Thank You ]
[ For Being You ]
[ Have A Good Night ]
[ & Always Fight The Good Fight ]
[ This Is How I Think & Feel ]
[ Because This Was Very Much On The Spot Real ]
[ After Having That Scared Elderly Man ]
[ Behind That Wheel ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(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 ]