(085)▪︎[ Just Existing … 1•27•2022 ]

[ What Would It Feel Like Being Stuck, Penniless, Hungry, Angry &
Alone? ]
[ You Have No Idea How Long It Had Been Since You Last Got
A Text On Your Phone ]

[ You Feel Like You Are On An Island, But You Have (4) Walls ]
[ On & Off During The Day, You Feel The Tightening Of Your
Jaws ]

[ You Have Lost Track Of The Days & Weeks ]
[ You Feel A Burning Sensation, Inside Both Cheeks ]

[ You Have A Huge Knot, On The Right Side Of Your Back ]
[ You Can’t Afford An Actual Meal ]
[ Not Even A Snack ]

[ You Do Not Recall The Last Time You Ate ]
[ You Are Not Trying To ]
[ But You Can Tell That You Are Losing Weight ]

[ The Light In Your Room Flickers On & Off ]
[ You Have Had The Cold Sweats ]
[ & A Really Deep, Barking Cough ]

[ There Is No Medication That Would Agree With Your System ]
[ Nothing Prescribed By Your P.C. Doctor ]
[ Not By Any Of Them ]

[ You Cannot Remember The Last Time That You Left The House
For Pleasure ]
[ You Used To Get Coins From The Bank ]
[ As You Hunted For Treasure ]

[ You Used To Look Through So Many Pennies, Nickels & Dimes ]
[ Hours After Hours ]
[ Yes, Those Were Good Times ]

[ But After Your Spouse ]
[ Left The House ]

[ Things Have Never Been The Same ]
[ You Can Not Find Your Wife Anymore ]
[ Because She Changed Her Whole Name ]

[ Without Telling You ]
[ Without Leaving A Clue ]

[ You Have Thought Of Taking A Whole Bottle Of Store Bought
Sleeping Pills ]
[ But You Found In The Past That It Did Not Even Make You Feel
Ill ]
[ It Only Gave You Cold Sweats & Then The Chills ]

[ A Single Ambien Usually Knocks The Average Person On
Their Ass ]
[ But You Took (28) Of Them Really Fast ]
[ Using The Last Swallow Of Soda, That You Had In Your Glass ]

[ You Waited All Night To Fall Asleep ]
[ After A Couple Of Hours You Were Able To Drift Away ]
[ But You Didn’t Go Very Deep ]

[ You Startle Yourself Awake, Way To Early In The Morning ]
[ Then You Have Flashbacks Throughout The Whole Day & Night
Without A Second’s Worth Of Warning ]

[ You Feel That All You Do Is Exist ]
[ You Are Not Enjoying Your Hobbies ]
[ So You Are Not Making A Single List ]

[ You Like To Inventory Everything That You Have Collected ]
[ Now All Your Hobbies Sit Neglected ]

[ Ever Since You Were A Teen Boy ]
[ Your Life Had Found Very Little Joy ]

[ You Always Wished That As You Grew Older You Would Come
Across Some ]
[ Nothing Ever Came ]
[ Everyday Was The Same ]
[ Making You Feel Dumb ]

[ There Are Some Days & Nights ]
[ You Do Not Stand Up To Turn On The Lights ]

[ The Only Times That You Get Up, Is To Go To The Bathroom &
Back Again ]
[ You Guess Your Dad Was Right When He Told You ]
[ (YOU WILL NEVER MAKE IT, YOU WILL NEVER WIN) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(073)▪︎[ Happier Times … 1•24•2022 ]

[ Oftentimes, When One Is Searching For Solace, They Go @ It All
Alone ]
[ When They Pick Up The Phone ]
[ Listening For The Voice Of Reason ]
[ They Only Get The Dial Tone ]

[ You Can’t Wash Lonely Off Of Your Back In The Shower ]
[ You Neither Have The Patience Or The Power ]

[ It Is A Common Mistake To Look For Love In All Of The Wrong
Places ]
[ You Only Think There Is Love ]
[ In All Of The Wrong Faces ]

[ You’ve Heard (1000) Stories But None Of Them Rings True ]
[ White Is Black ]
[ & Red Is Blue ]

[ Nobody Tells The Truth Anymore ]
[ Not The Lady Leaning Against The Wall ]
[ Or ]
[ The Guy Who Just Walked Through The Door ]

[ You Had The Bright Idea That When You Had $200 In Your
Pocket You Made It Rich ]
[ & You No Longer Had To Scratch That Itch ]

[ But If You Don’t Keep Moving, That Itch Will Turn Into A Scratch
That Gets Infected ]
[ You Will Wait So Long To Get Some Medicine ]
[ It Would Need To Be Injected ]

[ Stay Stagnant & You Turn Fat & Lazy ]
[ When You Hesitate Too Long & Talk To Yourself Too Much ]
[ People Will Start Calling You Crazy ]

[ All Because You Thought You Had Made It Too Early In Life ]
[ So You Have No Kids ]
[ You Never Had The Pleasure Of Having A Wife ]

[ Because You Were Always Looking For The Next ]
[ You Always Thought That You Would Find The Best Woman
Through A Text ]

[ Not The Old Fashioned Way Of Getting Out Of The House &
Meeting Her ]
[ If You Look @ A Text You Can Never Be Sure ]

[ Friends Have Passed You By & Moved Away ]
[ You Have Not Seen A Friendly Face All Day ]

[ You Are Relegated To A Monotonous Routine ]
[ You Are Neither The King Of All You Can See ]
[ You’ve Never Been Able To Share It With A Queen ]

[ Time Passes By When A Day Turns Into A Week ]
[ & You Have Aged Past Your Peak ]

[ Sooner, Rather Than Later, You Lay In Your Bed, Waiting For
Death To Give Your Ticket A Punch ]
[ You All Of Sudden Flash Back To Happier Times When You
Were Sharing A Lunch ]
[ With … ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(071)▪︎[ The Facebook Craze … 1•24•2022 ]

[ What Is It About, This Facebook Craze? ]
[ @ Times The Whole Point, Keeps You In A Haze ]

[ Some Say That It Let’s You Re-Connect With Friends Who
Were Long Lost ]
[ But Is There A Cost? ]

[ Were They Lost For A Good Reason? ]
[ Do You Only Hear From Them, During Football Season? ]

[ Facebook Seems Like A High School Popularity Contest ]
[ You Thought It Could Be Used To Re-Connect? ]

[ You Were Popular Year After Year ]
[ But Facebook Seems To Separate It Only For The Top Tier ]

[ There Were Some People That You Were Happy To Find ]
[ You Guess Through The Past Years Some Of Them Did In Fact
Cross Your Mind ]

[ @ First You Were Accepting (FRIEND REQUESTS) From
Everyone ]
[ & Anyone ]

[ But Then The Quantity Caused You To Go Numb ]
[ & The Thought Of Getting As Many As You Could ]
[ Kind Of Sounded Pretty Dumb ]

[ Did You Have Anything In Common, Besides Your High School? ]
[ When The Numbers Kept Rising You Thought It Was Kind
Of Cool ]
[ Then You Thought That Was The Thinking Of A Fool ]

[ Would You Text Everyone (HELLO!) Everyday? ]
[ There Would Not Really Be Anyway ]

[ That You Could Complete That Task In A Few Minutes, Right?
[ ½ Way Through ]
[ You Would Find It Hard To Want To Continue To Type ]

[ (1) Day You Took Some Time To Read Down The List ]
[ There Were Numerous Names, Where You Asked Yourself
(WHO IS THIS?) ]

[ Some Of Them You Had No Clue ]
[ If You Were Standing In Front Of Them On A Sidewalk &
Trying Hard To Not Be Rude ]
[ You Would Ask (OKAY, WHO ARE YOU?) ]

[ We All Look So Different Compared To Back Then ]
[ So When You Look @ The Name ]
[ Are They Still A Friend? ]

[ Do You Even Know What City They Live In Right Now? ]
[ You Might Ask Yourself (HOW?) ]

[ Counting Every Single One Of Them, It Has Been 30 Years Since
You Had Any Kind Of Conversation With Them Face To Face ]
[ You Have Not Even Been In The Same Place ]

[ As Each Other That You Knew Of ]
[ Maybe They Were Walking Under A Bridge ]
[ & Then You Were Walking Up Above ]

[ You Ask Yourself (WHEN?) ]
[ It Could Have Happened ]

[ So You Started To Go Down The List & Hit (UNFRIEND) ]
[ Name After Name,Your Facebook Friendship With Them,
Had Now Come To An End ]

[ You Thought (IT FELT GOOD TO TRIM THAT LIST DOWN) ]
[ You Seriously Thought That Would Not Cause A Single
Frown ]

[ You Never Received Any Backlash ]
[ Or A Message Of Someone Wanting To Come Back ]

[ When You Put Stories On Your FB Page ]
[ Were You Showing Your Age? ]

[ Well, Of Course You Were ]
[ You Know Who Else Was? ]
[ Ummm, Him & Her! ]

[ When You Did Not Get Many (LIKES) Or Comments That Seemed
Disconcerting ]
[ & That Caused A Little Bit Of Hurting ]

[ But It Should Not ]
[ In The Bigger Scheme Of Things In Your World ]
[ It Is A Little Dot ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1103)▪︎[ Minute After Minute … 8•30•2019 ]

[ You Found That You Could Only Sleep Minute After
Minute ]
[ You Don’t Know Why ]
[ But Your Mind Was Not In It ]

[ A Minute Here & A Minute There ]
[ You’d Open Your Eyes & Just Stare ]
[ If I Woke Her Up ]
[ Would She Care? ]

[ Even Just A Little Bit? ]
[ Would She Just Give Me Lip? ]
[ Would You Just Be A Blip ]

[ On Her Screen Of Life ]
[ What Did She Consider Doing, As Your Wife? ]

[ Would She Even Consider Turning On The Light? ]
[ Would She Make The Room Look Like The Day ]
[ Instead Of It Being Dark As Night? ]
[ Would She Find A Way ]
[ To Turn This Into A Fight? ]
[ Considering How Things Went Today ]
[ She Might ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1105)▪︎[ All Alone … 8•31•2019 ]

[ You Just Want Be Alone ]
[ You Want To Be Somewhere Secluded ]
[ Where You Couldn’t Even Be Seen By A Giant Drone ]
[ Right Now You Don’t Want To Be Included ]
[ Because Your Heart Has Turned To Stone ]

[ You Won’t Show It Because It Can Be Broken ]
[ To Make It Pump ]
[ It Takes More Than A Token ]

[ Love Is Not What It Would Take ]
[ Beware Of The Woman With The Two Headed Snake ]
[ She’ll Try To Get In With Some Cookies She Baked ]
[ This Will Need Something Better Than A Chocolate Cake ]

[ Is Love Given Only Because It Is A Token Of
Someone’s Gratitude? ]
[ Was It Given With A Loving Attitude? ]
[ We’re They Rude? ]
[ You Could Say You Love A Person & Not Mean A
Thing ]
[ What Positive Feelings Saying (I LOVE YOU) Bring? ]
[ Does That Always Bring Two People Together? ]
[ No Matter The Weather? ]

[ Rain, Snow, Sleet Or Baking Sun ]
[ Staying Inside Is Not Always Fun ]
[ Run Forrest, Run ]
[ When Does A Couple Turn Towards Each Other & Say ]
[ (I THINK WE’re DONE) ]

[ Or Do They Keep Plugging Along To See Where
False Love Can Take Them? ]
[ Does It Take Them To Southrrn California? ]
[ Or North Salem? ]
[ Given The Examples Of Man ]
[ They’re Not Really A Big Fan ]

[ Love Comes ]
[ & Love Goes ]
[ @ Times It Makes You Do Something Dumb ]
[ Why, How Or When ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ But It Will Happen Again ]
[ Just Wait For The Shows ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1109)▪︎[ Nothing Too … 9•1•2019 ]

[ People Who Have Things To Hide ]
[ Never Have Much To Say ]
[ They Should Let Their Conscience Be Their Guide ]

[ What Puts Them In The Bad Mood That They’re In? ]
[ Was It Because Of All Of The Sin? ]
[ When They Begin ]
[ Do They Think They’ll Ever Win? ]

[ Maybe That Is The Sin Right There ]
[ If They Ask (WHERE?) ]
[ You’d Say (CHECK THE SPARE) ]

[ (THE SPARE WHAT?) ]
[ You Might Ask ]
[ It’s The One That’s Been Cut ]
[ That Didn’t Last ]

[ & That’s All You Have To Say]
[ On This Day ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(536)▪︎[ It Is A Hard Place … 7•1•2021 ]

[ The World Outside Of Your Front Door Is A Hard Hard
Place ]
[ Everything Is Right There In Your Face ]

[ The Rain, The Sun, The Bogeyman ]
[ That Is When You Run ]
[ As Fast As You Can ]

[ You Seem To Want To Confide ]
[ That There Was No Where To Hide ]

[ That Is When Reality ]
[ Becomes Reality ]
[ For All To See ]
[ All Of A Sudden You Don’t Feel Free ]

[ How Can You Change These Circumstances? ]
[ How Can You Take So Many Chances ]

[ To Make Things Right? ]
[ Which Way Should I Turn To Flick The Switch That
Turns On The Light ]

[ Is It By The Light Of The Moon? ]
[ Or The Light When It’s The Afternoon? ]

[ Maybe That Light Could Be From The Oncoming
Train ]
[ Either Way It Will Cause Great Pain ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(002)▪︎[ Which Path … 1•1•2022 ]

[ There Are (2) Roads In Life To Choose From ]
[ (1) Could Make You Happy ]
[ While The Other Would Leave You Feeling Numb ]

[ Numb Because Your Life Would Be Filled With Bumps &
Bruises ]
[ Nobody Wants That Road ]
[ Because Everybody Loses ]

[ Nobody Wins ]
[ Everybody Committing Sins ]

[ Everything Spins Out Of Control ]
[ Because The Road Is Covered With Lost Souls ]

[ Is There A Way To Get To The Other Track? ]
[ There Must Be A Way To Come Back ]

[ To The Light Side ]
[ Where The Road Is Smooth & Wide ]

[ Where The Sun Would Shine ]
[ & You Have A Direct Route To Go Dakine ]

[ Where The Trees Are Plentiful With Fruit ]
[ Where The Babies Are Quiet & Cute ]

[ There Is No Contention Of Time ]
[ Where You Do Not Have To Choose Between A Ĺemon Or A Lime ]

[ Where You Do Not Choose Between The Two ]
[ & There Is No Such Thing As Wearing A Nike Shoe ]

[ A Nike Branded Shoe Turned Into Political Hype ]
[ That Is Why I Go With The (3) Stripes ]

[ All They Want Do Is Sell Shoes ]
[ Not Try To Get Society To Sing The Blues ]

[ They Did A Bad Political Move ]
[ That Put Them On A Different Groove ]

[ This Guy Does Not Kneel In Front Of The American Flag ]
[ That Is Not Your Bag ]
[ & That Swoosh Is Not Your Tag ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(545)▪︎[ So Confusing … 7•3•2021 ]

[ Life Can Be So Confusing ]
[ To You @ Times ]
[ But To Others, Watching You, Can Be So Amusing ]

[ When You Make A Mistake & You Get Frustrated Then Throw
Up Your Arms ]
[ Others Might Laugh ]
[ But They Mean You No Harm ]

[ A Mistake Is A Mistake In Your Mind ]
[ Laughter Is Good Medicine ]
[ You Will Find ]

[ Actually It Is The Best ]
[ It Passes Every Test ]

[ Should We All Look Up, To See ]
[ What Is Up Ahead & Free ]

[ Free From All Dyes, Smell & Taste ]
[ With Bullshit So Deep ]
[ It Is Up To Your Waist ]

[ It Is Not So Clear ]
[ Where You Would Go From Here ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(534)▪︎[ The Footprint … 6•30•2021 ]

[ Who Can Catch Lightning In A Bottle? ]
[ Is That The Daredevil Who Is Quick On The Throttle? ]

[ Driving Through Town As Fast As He Can ]
[ When You Think Of Him ]
[ You Could Say That He’s A (MAN’s MAN) ]

[ Is He The Only One That Can Leave A Footprint In The Dust? ]
[ Is Being A Daredevil A Must? ]

[ No, It’s Not, Is What You Say ]
[ You Try To Leave Your Foot Print Every Day ]

[ In The Sand, Clay, Mud Or Dirt ]
[ You Would Even Give A Man In Need, Your Own Shirt ]

[ Off Of Your Back ]
[ If You Really Think About It ]
[ That Was Just One Shirt Out Of A Big Stack ]

[ One Way That You Could Leave Your Footprint Is By What
You Can Give ]
[ You Also Can Leave An Impression By How You Live ]

[ Do You Walk, Take A Bus Or Ride The Train? ]
[ Or Do You Stay In The House & Refrain ]

[ & Play Games? ]
[ With People With Various Last Names? ]

[ If You Had One Wish, What Would It Be? ]
[ Would You Wish That One Wish ]
[ Would Turn Into Three? ]

[ & So On & So On Until Everybody Will Have One ]
[ Letting Everyone Have Some Fun ]

[ One Of Their Own ]
[ Maybe Some Would Wish For A Million Dollars ]
[ While Some Would Just Want An Ice Cream Cone ]

[ Leaving Your Handprint On This Earth ]
[ Does Not Prove Your Worth ]

[ Now Leaving Memories In Lots Of Different People’s
Mind ]
[ Is The Best Kind ]

[ Of Footprint ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]