[ Validation May Equal Acknowledgement ]
[ But That Does Not Mean An Automatic Agreement ]
[ I Acknowledge What You Say ]
[ But I May Not Agree With You On This Day ]
[ Like I Did On Other Days ]
[ @ No Time Is This About Us ]
[ Maybe This Is Something That We Need To Discuss ]
[ Because ]
[ It Is Not Always A ( ME VERSUS YOU ) ]
[ Thing ]
[ Maybe This Is How I See Things Through The Point
Of View ]
[ That I Bring ]
[ Not By Being Delirious ]
[ But Through My Experience ]
[ I Don’t Always Know What You Are Seeking ]
[ Seeing Or Speaking ]
[ Is It Like The Turning On A Light? ]
[ When We’re Trying To Figure Out What Is Right? ]
[ Without Everything & Anything ]
[ Leading Up To A Fight? ]
[ Afterall We’re Just Trying To Keep Things Moving On ]
[ So All Of The Misconceptions Will Be Gone ]
[ Let’s Continue To Stay Strong ]
[ & Get Away From The Thoughts That Feel Wrong ]
[ Not Everything Is Black Or White ]
[ But Sometimes Our Past ]
[ Blinds Our Sight ]
[ I Am Not Here To Lead Or Follow ]
[ I Never Want My Words To Come Across Hollow ]
[ I Mean What I Say ]
[ In The Most Sincere Way ]
[ Then ]
[ When ]
[ We Walk Side By Side ]
[ I Never Want You To Look Back ]
[ & Say That I Lied ]
[ That Is Not How I Want My Words To Come Through ]
[ To You ]
[ Because … ]
[ That Is The Last Thing I Want To Do ]
[ When Push Comes To Shove ]
[ We Always Need To Rise Above ]
[ The Hurt ]
[ & Show Each Other Who We Love ]
[ & That Is Each Other ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(328)▪︎[ Way Too Peopely … 4•21•2021 ]
[ Sometimes It Looks Like It Is Too Peoplely Outside ]
[ If I Smiled & Said ( THAT’s OKAY ) ]
[ I Lied ]
[ How Many Is Too Many? ]
[ Does There Even Have To Be Any? ]
[ One Mouthy Person Can Be One Too Much ]
[ It Does Not Even Matter If Their Mouth Is Yapping
About Such & Such ]
[ One Person Can Be As Loud ]
[ As A Small Crowd ]
[ There Is A Big Diference Between Being Heard &
Being Seen ]
[ Somebody Could Look @ You Wrong ]
[ & Then Someone Can Say Something Awfully Mean ]
[ It Does Not Take Someone Putting Their Hands On You
To Make You Feel Beat Up ]
[ It Doesn’t Take A Swipe Of A Knife To Give You A Cut ]
[ Words Cut Much Deeper Than Any Old Knife ]
[ Sometimes The Deepest Wounds Are Made By The Husband
Or The Wife ]
[ Those Are The Moments When You Need To Take ]
[ A Long Long Break ]
[ Walk Down To The Bakery ]
[ & Have A Big Piece Of New York Cheesecake ]
[ Recover ]
[ Before You Go Back To Your Lover ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(30)▪︎[ No Ability … 1•9•2021 ]
[ I Have No Stability ]
[ I Feel That I Don’t Have The Ability ]
[ To Get Or Be Stable ]
[ Just Flat Out Unable ]
[ I Absolutely Have No Say ]
[ On The Way ]
[ Things Go During The Day ]
[ I Have To Vent ]
[ About Being Bent ]
[ Because Of How Things Went ]
[ In One Ear ]
[ & Out The Other ]
[ About Who Is Supposed To Be Here ]
[ From This Point On ]
[ My Security Blanket Is Gone ]
[ How Do I Get Things Back Under My Control? ]
[ Because This Is Putting A Hole ]
[ In The Middle Of My Soul ]
[ My Shining Light ]
[ Is Always My Wife ]
[ But She Is Gone Most Of The Day ]
[ & Won’t Be Home Until Late Into The Night ]
[ Strangers Are Coming Into My Home Once Again ]
[ Will They Be Coming In ]
[ To Commit A Sin? ]
[ Or Two Or Four ]
[ Stealing My Property ]
[ As They Walk Out The Front Door? ]
[ Maybe I Should Hole Up In My Room & Close The Door ]
[ Because Sometimes I Can’t Take It Anymore ]
[ So I Just Spend My Time Alone ]
[ & Write Story After Story On My Phone ]
[ Oh Wait, What Is That Noise? ]
[ Oh, Okay, It Was Just The Dial Tone ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(021)▪︎[ Your Bubble … 1•7•2021 ]
[ If Someone Says That Your Bubble Is Getting
Bigger Than You Think ]
[ Would You Prefer That It Would Shrink? ]
[ I Think For Instance ]
[ You Would Rather That Others Keep Their 6 Feet Of Distance? ]
[ You Definitely Don’t Want Someone That Is Coughing
To Come Near ]
[ The Causes For Those Coughs Are Never Clear ]
[ It Could Be Some Allergies ]
[ Or The ‘VID ]
[ You Never Know If The Sneezes ]
[ We’re Caused By Where He Has Been Or What He Did ]
[ When He Felt Feerless? ]
[ Did He Get Careless? ]
[ He May Have Felt Safe Around People He Did Not Know ]
[ But Sometimes The Symptoms Are Really Slow ]
[ To Show ]
[ Then Will It Be Too Late ]
[ After He Brings The ‘VID Home To His Kids & Mate ]
[ The 6 Feet Distance Bubble Sounds Like A Good
Idea Still ]
[ Will It Stay In Effect? ]
[ Oh, You Hope It Will ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(019)▪︎[ Superman Once Visited Me … 1•7•2021 ]
[ When I Met Superman, I Was Not Looking For Him
To Come & Save The Day ]
[ I Wanted Him To Show Me How To Live My Life In A
Much Better Way ]
[ So I Began To Listen To What He Had To Say ]
[ Treat Others Better Than They Treat You ]
[ Do Not Be A Follower ]
[ By Always Doing What They Do ]
[ Always Turn The Other Cheek, Is What He Said ]
[ Never Let Someone Else’s Actions ]
[ Dictate The Thoughts In Your Head ]
[ Give When & What You Have Plenty Of ]
[ Give Extra To Those That You Love ]
[ Find Some Things To Give ]
[ To Help Someone Be More Comfortable As They Live ]
[ I Told Him That I Could Never Match His Feats Of
Strength ]
[ He Told Me That The Love From The Heart ]
[ Has Never Been Measured By Length ]
[ Touch Those That You Don’t Even Know ]
[ Giving To Those That Don’t Have ]
[ Might Make You Their Hero ]
[ Very Few Can Ever Get Ahead In This Human Race ]
[ By Running In Place ]
[ Keep Going Forward ]
[ Make A Goal That You Can Move Toward ]
[ But He Is The Lucky Guy ]
[ Because He Is The Only One That Can Fly ]
[ How Do I Compete With That? ]
[ Well, I Can’t ]
[ He Said That Kind Of Thinking Is Wrong ]
[ Just Like Nobody Is Judged ]
[ By How They Sing A Specific Song ]
[ So Superman Talked With Me For Hours & Hours ]
[ & He Told Me That We All Don’t Need To Have Or
Use Super Powers ]
[ He Said Every Woman & Man ]
[ Should Always Do What They Can ]
[ To Make A Diferrence & A Reason That They Are
Remembered ]
[ For Many More January’s & December’s ],
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(18)▪︎[ The Riots … 1•7•2021 ]
[ The Riots, The Riots Are Happening All Over
Again ]
[ Just Because He Didn’t Win ]
[ If You Have Not Been In One ]
[ You Should Never Want To ]
[ Because They Are Not Fun ]
[ The Rioters Have Angry Minds ]
[ & Angry Thoughts ]
[ Of The Worst Kinds ]
[ Violence & Mayhem ]
[ Is All That Matters To Them ]
[ They Have One Track Minds In What They Want
To Do ]
[ Their Main Objectives ]
[ Is To Get By Or Through You ]
[ Material Things Is Not Want They Want ]
[ Their Angry Voices Yell Angry Taunts ]
[ The Meaning & Reasons For All Of This Is So
Absurd ]
[ His Reasons That He Caused This ]
[ Are The Worst That I Have Ever Heard ]
[ He Lost In A Fair & Honest Election ]
[ If He Had Any Time For Honest Reflection ]
[ He Would Come Out & Tell His Mob To Change
Their Direction ]
[ & Go Back Home ]
[ But Not One Calming Message Was Ever Shown ]
[ He Turned The Volume Up Because Of His Asinine &
Violent Tweets ]
[ He Told His Trumpanzees To Get Violent In The Streets ]
[ Watching The Riots Flooded My Brain With Such
Horrible Memories ]
[ Of A Violent Incident ]
[ That Was Life Changing For Me ]
[ A Riot Changed My Life ]
[ It Wasn’t By A Man Holding A Gun Or A Knife ]
[ I Felt Such A Huge Amount Of Empathy ]
[ For Those Officers ]
[ Trying To Give Others Enough Security ]
[ So They Could Get Home Safely ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(16)▪︎[ Hope Or Nope … 1•7•2021 ]
[ What Does It Mean When Someone Exclaims That They
Have Hope? ]
[ Could It Be Squashed When Another Person Says ( NOPE ) ? ]
[ Can Someone Go Through Their Whole Life Without Any? ]
[ That Would Be Uncanny ]
[ What Is The Difference Between The Words ( HOPE ) & ( FAITH ) ]
[ Can You Ever Get Them Straight? ]
[ Faith Can Be When You Believe In Something Or Someone Every
Day ]
[ Hope Can Be Having Faith In Some Imaginary Way ]
[ The Two Words Can Be Intertwined ]
[ Both Are Kept In The Depths Of The Mind ]
[ Neither Can Be Based On A Command ]
[ Neither One Can Be Physically Held Or Touched By Your Hand ]
[ Can This Be Something You Could Teach? ]
[ Not Preach ]
[ To Have Either ]
[ Would You Still Have To Define Each? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(37)▪︎[ No Footprint … 1•11•2021 ]
[ Another Day Being Left In The Dark ]
[ Another Day Not Leaving A Mark ]
[ In Society ]
[ So Anyone Can Remember Me ]
[ If Someone Was Looking For My Footprint ]
[ They Would Have To Get To The Right ]
[ Light ]
[ & Squint ]
[ Their Eyes ]
[ Because I Am Just One Of Those Boring, Average Guys ]
[ That Blend ]
[ Someone Easy To Offend ]
[ Someone That No One ]
[ Even Pretends ]
[ To Defend ]
[ I Blend Into The Background ]
[ I Blend Into Whatever Scenery Is Around ]
[ A Chameleon That Doesn’t Want To Be ]
[ A Person, In Person That Nobody Sees ]
[ I Don’t Wear Bright Shorts Or Shirts ]
[ I Am Overlooked & Dismissed So Much It Gets To
The Level That It Hurts ]
[ I Try To Grow Thicker Skin ]
[ I Am Rarely With The Crowd That’s ( IN ) ]
[ I Play Game After Game On My Phone ]
[ & It Seems That I Never Win ]
[ It All Makes Me Feel So Alone ]
[ I Can’t Ever Catch A Break ]
[ I Am Not Ever Thought Of As The One To Thank ]
[ Even Though I Try To Go Out Of My Way ]
[ Everyday ]
[ To Pay A Compliment ]
[ But Never Making A Statement ]
[ To Blow My Own Horn ]
[ If You Asked The Two Barbara’s ]
[ They Did Not Like That I Was Even Born ]
[ Is That Normal Or What? ]
[ Even As I Write This ]
[ The Words Cut ]
[ The Thoughts Are Even Worse ]
[ Oh How I Wish I Wasn’t Born With This Curse ]
[ Who Were My Strong Male Role Models ]
[ My Dad Or Donald? ]
[ My Dad Blew His Brains Out ]
[ Don Pushed Me Out ]
[ Oh, I Sure As Hell Know ]
[ I Really Don’t Think So ]
[ Don Showed Me Plenty Of Examples That Went Into
The Bucket In My Head That Was Labled ( I WON’t ) ]
[ He Showed Me & Did Things In Front Or To Me That
Went Into The Bucket Labeled ( PLEASE DON’t ) ]
[ Donald Taught Me How To Judge ]
[ & To Not Budge ]
[ On His Lifelong Grudge ]
[ With Me, His Only Son ]
[ But When He Refused To Speak To Me This Last Time ]
[ I Knew That Our Relationship Was Done ]
[ But Now I Am Happy To Say That I Am Smiling
In My Head ]
[ Because Dear Ole Donald ]
[ Is Dead. Dead. Dead ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(334)▪︎[ This Won Day … 4•22•2021 ]
[ Their Wus This Won Day When Eye Was Sitting On
The Sidewalk In The Midle Of Eye5 ]
[ Eye Was Sew Sew Thank Fool That Eye Wus Still Alive ]
[ I Don’t No Y ]
[ Eye Just Wus ]
[ Because Eye M Jst That Kinf Of A Geye ]
[ Eye Don’t Think, Lyke Eye Tock ]
[ Sew, Sum Thymes Eye Jest Think Owt Seyd Of The Balks ]
[ They’re Is Never Aye Rhyme Oar Reason On Y Eye Due ]
[ The Things, That Eye Due ]
[ Some Thymes Things Just Due Knott Make Cents ]
[ Just Like Eye Can Knott Never Bee Able Two Put Up
Aye TeNt ]
[ The Polls Get All Bent & The TeNt Flaps Flap In The Wind ]
[ It Looks Sew Complecks ]
[ Eye Due Naught Know Wear Two Begin ]
[ Complex Is Knott My Middle Name ]
[ Butt When Things Due Get Complex, They Usually Point
They’re Middle Finger @ Me 2 Blame ]
[ Eye Gess Eye Can Handull The Press Sure ]
[ From Hymn & Hure ]
[ Eye Donut No Wear Eye Em Going With This ]
[ Eye Em Jest Luck King Four The Land Of Bliss ]
[ Is It Out Their? ]
[ Any Wear? ]
[ How Meny Napkins Wood Won Should Ewes? ]
[ & Witch Side Of The Newspapers ]
[ Duz Won Look Four The News? ]
[ Butt Thu News May Bee Rite In Front Of Ewe ]
[ Just Donut Look Four Sum Thing Knew ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(335)▪︎[ The Lonely Man … 4•23•2021 ]
[ Woe Is The Heart Of The Lonely Man ]
[ Walking Through Life Doing The Best That He Can ]
[ He Tries To Put A Smile On The Face Of Someone
Every Single Day ]
[ Each Time Is Different ]
[ & So Is The Way ]
[ Maybe Giving A Much Softer, Kinder Word ]
[ Than The Stranger Has Ever Heard ]
[ In A Long Long Time ]
[ Maybe A Positive Word In A Short Poetic Rhyme ]
[ The Lonely Man’s Sole Intention On This Earth ]
[ Is To Show & Tell Others About Their Worth ]
[ Some May Need A Pick-Me-Up Or A Compliment Or
Two ]
[ Maybe Some Positive Reinforcement About What They
Do ]
[ A Moment In Time That They Will Remember ]
[ A Date In Time Between Now & December ]
[ It Does Not Cost The Lonely Man One Single Cent ]
[ To Show A Stranger That They Only Have The Best
Intent ]
[ & Show Their Best ]
[ Interest ]
[ Does The Lonely Man Ask For Anything In Return? ]
[ Has The Lonely Man Taught The Stranger A Single
Thing To Learn? ]
[ Maybe To Never Judge Another ]
[ Like Others ]
[ Are Prone To Judge A Book By Its Cover ]
[ The Tattered Pages May Look ]
[ Like It May Be An Old Throw Away Book ]
[ But Not By Looks Or The Reading Of A Single Page ]
[ Can A Book Tell The Invaluable Content ]
[ Or The Approximate Age ]
[ Of What May Be The True Intentions That Lie Deep
Down @ The Heart ]
[ If There Was A Finish Line ]
[ When Was The Start? ]
[ A Kind Word From A Stranger May Be Just That ]
[ It Deserves A Thoughtful Thank You ]
[ A Tip Of The Hat ]
[ & Then With A Blink That Lonely Man Is Gone ]
[ Because It Was Past The Time For Him To Move On ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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