[ Nothing Gets Stronger Until You Overload It ]
[ Everything Counts ]
[ Even Just A Little Bit ]
[ But Muscle Memory ]
[ Can Mean Everything ]
[ Whatever You Want To See ]
[ Depends On What You Bring ]
[ Do You Bring A Good Attitude ]
[ Do You Always Check Your Mood ]
[ @ The Door? ]
[ What If You Do Your Whole Set ]
[ & Kirsten Yells ( NOW, GIVE ME TWO MORE! ) ]
[ Is That Demand Met ]
[ With Tears On The Floor? ]
[ Or Do You Gather Your Energy & Check Yourself? ]
[ Knowing That You Wouldn’t Do This ]
[ For Just Anyone Else ]
[ Because You Know That Kirsten Knows What’s Best ]
[ So You Always Want To Beat Every Test ]
[ She Will Always Let You Rest ]
[ A Minute Or Two ]
[ & Then Kirsten Will Once Again ]
[ Let You Know What You Need To Do ]
[ She Is So Good @ Breaking Things Down So You Can ]
[ Understand ]
[ She Is Always Your Biggest Fan ]
[ Kirsten Does Not Criticize ]
[ She Does Not Cut You Down To A Smaller Size ]
[ A Good Therapist Is One That Is Constantly Explaining ]
[ As She Goes ]
[ So You Are Never Complaining ]
[ About The Exercises She Shows ]
[ But When Things Get Easy To Do ]
[ She Will Give You Something New ]
[ & Then You May Discover ]
[ You Have A Muscle Group You Never Knew ]
[ You Never Want To Run & Hide ]
[ Let Her Be Your Guide ]
[ & In The End You’ll Find Out ]
[ That She Never Lied ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(822)▪︎[ A Big Thanks … 9•25•2020 ]
[ Dear Marianno ]
[ Here A Few Things That I Thought You Should Know ]
[ If I Was Talking To My Favorite Caregiver ]
[ I Would Talk Really Slow ]
[ Before You & Your Heroic Friends Came ]
[ We Never Knew When The Fires Would End ]
[ Or Would We Ever See Rain ]
[ Everyone Would Shout ]
[ That They Had Doubt ]
[ About ]
[ When The Fires Would Be Put Out ]
[ It Took More Than Effort & Water To Take Those
Fires Apart ]
[ It Took A Whole Lot Of Heart ]
[ You Don’t Fight Those Fires On A Dare ]
[ So What Incentive Got You Out There? ]
[ You Risk Your Lives Because You Care ]
[ You Care About The Thousands Of People That You Will
Never Meet ]
[ You Fight The Good Fight Until You Hurt ]
[ From The Top Of Your Head Clear Down To The Bottom Of
Your Feet ]
[ It Is NOT Because Of The Big Paychecks That You Get ]
[ & You Know That You Can’t Control How These Fires Are Set ]
[ But The Paychecks ARE Nice ]
[ Sometimes They Make You Look Twice ]
[ But It Is Not Worth The Ultimate Price ]
[ Watch Out For Falling Branches & Fire In The Roots ]
[ & Ground So Hot ]
[ You Can Feel It Through Your Boots ]
[ You Look Up High ]
[ Towards The Sky ]
[ & Low ]
[ @ The Ground ]
[ You Have To Be Aware Of How The Winds Blow ]
[ & Which Way It Goes Around ]
[ It Is Way Overdue ]
[ & They Finally Caught A Clue ]
[ On How They Can Better Treat You ]
[ Putting You Up In A Good Hotel ]
[ So You Could Shower ]
[ & Hopefully Letting You Sleep Well ]
[ So You Can Fight Back The Power ]
[ That Makes Your Sounding Scenery Look Like Hell ]
[ Are You Tired Of All Of The Fun? ]
[ Of Always Being On The Run? ]
[ When Will It Stop? ]
[ When Will The Fire Stop Going ( POP, POP, POP? ) ]
[ It Is Amazing How Much Damage Can Be Caused By One
Single Lightning Strike ]
[ It Does Not Do Anything That You Like ]
[ I Have To Say How Much I Am Amazed ]
[ By The Effort & Work Ethic ]
[ Of A Young Man Your Age ]
[ All Of You Guys Are Super Hero’s To All Of Us Plain Folks ]
[ Hiding In Our Homes ]
[ When The Wind Blew In All Of The Smoke ]
[ So Wherever You’d Go ]
[ You Always Chocked ]
[ But You Guys Are Beating That Fire & Turning It Into
Itself ]
[ So It Can’t Burn Anything Else ]
[ You Get In There Like You Are In A Fight ]
[ Beginning @ Your Early Morning Light ]
[ Until Well Into The Night ]
[ Half Ass Effort Is Never Enough ]
[ But Like They Say About The Astronauts ]
[ You ALL Are Made Up Of THE RIGHT STUFF! ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(753)▪︎[ One Bad Day … 9•5•2020 ]
[ Tic Toc, Tic Toc ]
[ Goes The Clock ]
[ In My Mind ]
[ As I’m Taking A Walk ]
[ I Would Much Rather It Be Your Voice ]
[ Ringing In My Ear ]
[ But I Have No Choice ]
[ Since You Are No Longer Near ]
[ As The Weather Gets Colder ]
[ It Doubles The Pain In My Left Shoulder ]
[ After My Surgery ]
[ It Really Makes Me Feel Older ]
[ As I’m Out ]
[ Walking & Thinking About ]
[ All Of The Doubt ]
[ That I Had About The Point Of View ]
[ Of That Doctor Who Never Knew ]
[ How To Break The News ]
[ About What You ]
[ Went Through ]
[ When They Called A Code Blue ]
[ Those Words Were The Kind ]
[ That Gets Stuck ]
[ As A Bad Memory, In My Mind ]
[ Those Were The Hardest Words ]
[ That I Had Ever Heard ]
[ You Were No Longer In Pain As You Moved On ]
[ All That I Know Now ]
[ Is That My Future As We Planned, Is Now Gone ]
[ & There Is No More Arguing About What Is Right Or Wrong ]
[ In My Life ]
[ I Need To Keep The Memories Strong ]
[ No Matter The Chaos Or Strife ]
[ That I May Come Across ]
[ As I’m Dealing With This Loss ]
[ As I Look Back ]
[ I Knew That For A Fact ]
[ That You Were A 1 In A Million Act ]
[ Now When I See You In My Dreams ]
[ It Makes Me Smile & Cry ]
[ Because We Made Such A Great Team ]
[ I Always End Up Screaming ( WHY? ) ]
[ It Seems ]
[ Where Will I Find The Strength This Time? ]
[ Because Your Death Was Such A Crime ]
[ That Is Why I Pour My Soul Into This Rhyme ]
[ Was This Just A Thought, Not Real? ]
[ This Is How I Never Want To Feel ]
[ So As I Come Home From My Walk ]
[ I Know That You Have Always Been My Rock ]
[ & I Find That My Biggest Wish ]
[ Is That I Hope That I Will Not Have To Hear Words Like
This ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(751)▪︎[ When The Light Goes Out … 9•4•2020 ]
[ What Really Happens When The Light Goes Out? ]
[ Is There Doubt ]
[ That Sets In? ]
[ Does The Dark Make The World Start To Spin? ]
[ The Light Went Away So Fast ]
[ You Knew It Would Not Last ]
[ But It Is Now Just A Memory Of Your Past ]
[ You Saw It Coming, But There Was Nothing You Could Do ]
[ Because It Is So Dark ]
[ You Hate Your View ]
[ Of What May Or May Not Be In Front Of You ]
[ Whenever You Hear A Sound ]
[ Do You Look Down? ]
[ Or Do Look Around? ]
[ But Look For What? ]
[ Do You Check The Doors & Windows ]
[ To Make Sure That They Are Shut? ]
[ & Check The Lock ]
[ As You Hear The Tic-Toc ]
[ Of Your Wall Clock ]
[ It Feels Like It Will Be Hours Until The Sun Comes Up Outside ]
[ You Can’t Seem To Able, To Close Your Eyes ]
[ Because They Are Open So Wide ]
[ Hours Later You Are Able To Fall Into A Deep ]
[ Sleep ]
[ Only After You Don’t Hear A Peep ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(747)▪︎[ Chaos Everywhere … 9•3•2020 ]
[ To Some, The World Is Getting Confusing ]
[ For Others That Are Causing The Chaos ]
[ It Seems Amusing ]
[ Chaos Can Be Confusing For Some Standing On
The Side ]
[ Chaos Leaves Some People With Their Eyes Open Wide ]
[ When They Said They Didn’t Mean To ]
[ They Flat Out Lied ]
[ Why Else Do They Show Up When They Had No Part
In The Cause That Was Being Protested? ]
[ They Knew That Whatever They Did ]
[ Would Not Get Them Arrested ]
[ But Then People Scream ( WHERE ARE THE POLICE? ) ]
[ Were They Serious? ]
[ Oh Please ]
[ They Don’t Want Police Here, But You Want Them There ]
[ Please Share ]
[ Why The Police Officers Would Even Care? ]
[ Police Are Being Treated Like Guard Dogs Being Sent &
Silenced In Their Doghouse ]
[ They Are Told To Stay ]
[ Until Someone Sees A Cat Chasing A Mouse ]
[ Those Men & Women Are Only Human Like All Of Us ]
[ They Have Been Put Through So Much Stuff ]
[ When Will They Have To Dodge A Runaway Bus? ]
[ There Seems To Be So Much Unrest ]
[ What Is Going To Be The Next Test? ]
[ How Do You Know What Is Best? ]
[ How Will Society Negate ]
[ All Of This Ongoing Hate? ]
[ How Is This Affecting Everyone In Our State? ]
[ Could We Fence It All In ]
[ & Then Close The Gate ]
[ Whenever Hate Hits The Throttle ]
[ It Should Be Put In A Bottle ]
[ & Thrown In The Landfill ]
[ Where It Could Remain Still ]
[ I Don’t Know About Others ]
[ But I’ve Had My Fill ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(58)▪︎[ My Friend, Rita … 1•15•2021 ]
[ Yes My Friend, People Come & Go ]
[ Some That You Will ]
[ But Probably Most You Won’t Make The Effort
To Get To Know ]
[ But Every Once In A Blue Moon ]
[ You Will Meet Someone Who Dances To The
Same Kind Of Tune ]
[ Maybe You Talk To See What You Both Have in
Common ]
[ Maybe They Like Pasta ]
[ While You Like Top Ramen ]
[ Well It Is Kind Of The Same ]
[ & You Laugh As You Tell Each Other, Your Name ]
[ A Good Friend ]
[ Really Does Stick With You Through Thick
Or Thin ]
[ & They Say Good Job ]
[ No Matter If You Lose Or Win ]
[ They Give You A Strong Shoulder To Lean
On Or Cry ]
[ When Your Eyes Fill Up With Tears ]
[ They Never Ask You For A Reason Why ]
[ Somethings You May Not Agree On & Neither One
Will Budge ]
[ Just Because You Don’t Agree On Something ]
[ Does Not Mean That They Will Judge ]
[ There Are A Few Topics That You Each Stay Away
From ]
[ You Never Want a Heated Argument Over Something
That Is So Dumb ]
[ Your Friend Doesn’t Disown You Because Of Who You
Date ]
[ If They Think That You Are Headed For A Fall ]
[ They Bite Their Lip & Patiently Wait ]
[ Because When You Date A Woman That You Came To
Call ( SATAN IN A DRESS ) ]
[ They Will Try Their Damndest To Get You Out Of Your
Mess ]
[ They Stick With You For Almost 28 Years ]
[ They Help You Conquer Many Fears ]
[ You Give Them All The Support & Love That You
Can ]
[ Even Though Your Friend Is A Woman ]
[ & You Are A Man ]
[ Sometimes Opposites Come Together ]
[ No Matter The Time Of Day ]
[ No Matter The Weather ]
[ Even Physically Moving Far Apart ]
[ Won’t Pull Them Out Of Your Heart ]
[ I Am So Glad I Met Ya ]
[ My Friend Rita ]
[ I Sure Miss You, Down In Arizona ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(77)▪︎[ A Safer Place … 1•22•2021 ]
[ Today I Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything ]
[ Especially Not Knowing What The Day Will Be Bringing ]
[ I Want To Keep My Head On My Big, Soft Pillow ]
[ Closing My Eyes ]
[ & Laying Low ]
[ Falling Back Into A Nice Dream State ]
[ Thinking Good Thoughts ]
[ While Dismissing The Hate ]
[ That I Heard ]
[ This Past Week ]
[ Watching People’s Actions, Then Listening To Their
Words ]
[ Directed @ People With Different Colored Faces ]
[ Of Different Races ]
[ Born In Different Places ]
[ When People Don’t Understand Others, They Tend
To Lash Out ]
[ Out Of Fear ]
[ So The Reasons For Their Hateful Shouts ]
[ Are Not Always Clear ]
[ Oftentimes People Speak ]
[ Before Taking The Time To Think ]
[ Never Taking Into Consideration How Their Words ]
[ Hurts ]
[ Further Driving People Apart ]
[ Leaving People To Wonder How To Close This
Division ]
[ Then Wondering Where, When & How To Start ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(80)▪︎[ Losing Faith … 1•22•2021 ]
[ I Am Losing Faith In The Human Race ]
[ When I Look @ Society ]
[ All I See Is An Angry Face ]
[ Nobody Smiles Or Gives You A Pleasant Greeting ]
[ Because We Wear Masks ]
[ There Is No Chance Meeting ]
[ You Can’t Tell If Someone Is Smiling Or Having
A Bad Day ]
[ I Don’t Ask ]
[ & Nobody Will Say ]
[ We All Keep Our 6 Feet Apart ]
[ We Hide Our Emotions ]
[ While We Protect Our Hearts ]
[ Because Of The Year 2020, We Wonder ( WHAT COULD
BE NEXT? ) ]
[ We No Longer Talk On The Phone ]
[ We Only Send Each Other A Text ]
[ So Devoid Of Emotions Or Feelings In The Words ]
[ When You Are In Person ]
[ You Walk Away Knowing More Than You Heard ]
[ But Society Has Been Quarantined From Each
Other For So So Long ]
[ Always Afraid Someone Could Be Around Someone
That Is Sick ]
[ Then Watching Everything Go Wrong ]
[ People Who Die From The Virus Die Alone In
The Hospital ]
[ Instead Of Looking Into Your Loved Ones Eyes ]
[ They Die Staring @ A Blank Wall ]
[ & I Don’t Want That To Ever Happen To Me ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(82)▪︎[ The Horizon … 1•23•2021 ]
[ As I Look Out @ The Distant Horizon ]
[ I Wonder ( WHAT’S GOING ON? ) ]
[ Are Those People Smiling, Are They Happy? ]
[ Or Are They Frowning & Angry ]
[ How Could I Tell ]
[ If They Were Doing Well? ]
[ I Guess It Would Be Totally Up To My Vivid
Imagination ]
[ Could I See A Picture ]
[ Through My Concentration? ]
[ Sometimes When I Am Attempting To Connect
All Of The Dots ]
[ My Mind Goes Blurry ]
[ Then All I See, Is Fuzzy Spots ]
[ & The Picture That I Thought Was Coming In Crystal
Clear ]
[ Is Longer Here ]
[ Because In The Haze ]
[ It All Disappeared ]
[ ( OH WELL ) I Say ]
[ I Will Look Through My Imagination On Another
Day ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(83)▪︎[ I Couldn’t … 1•23•2021 ]
[ Isolation Is The Word For Today ]
[ Don’t Do What I Do ]
[ Disregard What I Say ]
[ I Felt Locked In The Corner Without Having
A View ]
[ But What I’d Really Like To Do ]
[ Is Turn Around & Become Part Of The Crowd ]
[ I Just Can’t Do It ]
[ Because The Noise Is Too Loud ]
[ I Tell Myself ( YOU CAN DO IT! ) ]
[ But All I Could Do Was Bite My Lip ]
[ I Just Couldn’t Get Up, Because My Legs Froze ]
[ That Was Not My First Choice ]
[ It Was What My Body Chose ]
[ My Brain Wanted My Body To Move ]
[ But I Just Couldn’t Get In The Groove ]
[ So I Settled In With The Isolation ]
[ It Seemed Like The Consolation ]
[ Prize ]
[ For My Mind ]
[ It Was Not What I Wanted To Do, But I Did ]
[ So I Just Went To My Bedroom & Hid ]
[ Hid For The Day, Hid For The Month ]
[ Someone Said That They Wanted To Be Brutally Blunt ]
[ They Said That Besides It Having Such A Negative Hit On
My Wealth ]
[ It Does Not Help In My March Towards Good Health ]
[ Not Because Money Can’t Buy Me Happiness In The
Long Run ]
[ Hiding In My Bedroom Was Not Very Fun ]
[ Feeling That I Got A Raw Deal ]
[ Seeing That I Didn’t Like How Things Would Feel ]
[ I Need To Go Through Life With Vigor ]
[ Because When I Just Sit Around, My Belly Keeps Getting
Bigger & Bigger ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
