[ Sometimes It Doesn’t Matter Where You Come From ]
[ It Matters What You Are Made Of ]
[ & The Only Thing In Life That Does Not Make You
Feel Numb ]
[ Is When Someone Special Shows You Lots Of Love ]
[ Sometimes It Doesn’t Matter What Is In Your Past ]
[ But It Does Matter How Fast ]
[ You Are Creating Good Memories That Will Last ]
[ Your Past Experiences Has Molded You Into Who &
What You Are Today ]
[ It Doesn’t Always Matter What You Say ]
[ But It Does Matter How You Show Things In Your Own
Special Way ]
[ Shock People When They Think That When You Should Turn
Left You Turn Right ]
[ You May Not Have Got Your Point Across With What Said ]
[ It Is What You Write ]
[ That Gets Your Point Stuck Into Their Head ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1149)▪︎[ A Deep Sleep … 9•11•2019 ]
[ Have You Ever Had One Of Those Days Where You Just
Want To Go Back To Sleep? ]
[ Not A Nap ]
[ But One Where You’re Under Really Deep ]
[ It Is Like You’re On The Sleep Elevator Where The
Level Of Deep Goes Up As The Elevator Goes
Down ]
[ You Go To The Level Where There’s No Sound ]
[ You Pass The Level Where You Dream ]
[ Go Past The Nightmares That Make You Scream ]
[ Head Towards The Darkness Where There’s No Light ]
[ Your Hearing Is Amazing ]
[ Compensating, Because You Have No More Sight ]
[ It’s Not Like You’re Totally Blind ]
[ It’s So Dark ]
[ You See With Your Mind ]
[ You Thought You Heard A Bark ]
[ So You Check Your Behind ]
[ There’s Nothing There ]
[ Except Cold Air ]
[ Don’t Be Scared Of The Dark Because There Is
Nothing To Be Afraid Of ]
[ The Last Light You Had Was From Way Up Above ]
[ You Shiver & The Cold Goes Down To The Bone ]
[ Do You Try To Anticipate The Not Yet Known? ]
[ Where You Can’t Anticipate What Goes On Here ]
[ Because What Goes On Is Never Clear ]
[ You Come To A Room & You Find A Corner Where You
Can Sit ]
[ When You Lose Your Sight Do You Just Want To
Quit? ]
[ You Have To Be Confident That You’ll Get Your Sight
Back ]
[ So Don’t Worry, If All You Can See Is Black ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(720)▪︎[ What Storm? … 8•23•2020 ]
[ Inside Every One Of Us Is A Storm Waiting To Rage ]
[ Are You The Rain, The Thunder, The Lightning ]
[ Or The Next Ice Age? ]
[ When There Are Storms @ The Beach ]
[ The Waves Crash So Hard & So Loud ]
[ You Cannot Hear Yourself Speak ]
[ Some People Have A Fascination With Storms ]
[ That Is Just Slightly Out Of Other Peoples Norms ]
[ Is It The Driving, Blinding Rain ]
[ That Floods The Outside Drains ]
[ That Drive Those People Insane? ]
[ Is The Flash Of The Lightning Or The Thunderous Boom ]
[ That Makes People Hide ]
[ Or Run Into The Inside Rooms? ]
[ The Weather Guy ]
[ Tells No Lies ]
[ When He Predicts That The Lightning @ Night ]
[ Will Light Up The Sky’s ]
[ Others Like The Calm & The Warmth That The Sun Brings ]
[ That Seems To Be When All Of The Birds Sing ]
[ It Also Has You Wonder ]
[ What Opportunities A New Day Will Bring ]
[ The Opportunities Would Be Endless ]
[ & If You Tried ]
[ It Would Knock You Senseless ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(722)▪︎[ Stopping Life … 8•24•2020 ]
[ How Do You Stop Life From Getting The Best Of You? ]
[ Do You Just Lie Down ]
[ & Let Life Do What It Has Got To Do? ]
[ It Would Be Easier Than Putting Up A Fight ]
[ With Something That Is Not In Your Sight ]
[ Every Single Time That You Got Knocked Down ]
[ You Have To Rise ]
[ & Stand Up High On The Ground ]
[ Because Life Throws You So
Many Punches ]
[ A Queasy Feeling ]
[ Has Ruined Many Lunches ]
[ Through The Days, Weeks & Years ]
[ Life Causes The Shedding Of Many Tears ]
[ During Your Life, You Constantly Try To Face Your Worst Fears ]
[ The Best Part Is That Your Eyes Are Now Open Wide ]
[ You Can Hold Your Head High ]
[ Knowing That You Never Did Run & Hide ]
[ So How Do You Survive? ]
[ How Do You Grow & Thrive? ]
[ How Do You Show Your Friends & Loved Ones That
You Are Very Much Alive ]
[ Fight The Good Fight Is What You Need To Do Now ] [ But Don’t Be Impatient ] [ To Try To Figure Out How ]
[ It Might Be Some Time Before The Answers Come By ] [ Beware Of People That Always Lie ]
[ Don’t Be Too Quick To Demand For The Answer To (WHY?) ]
[ Search The World Over & Find The Ones That Really Care ]
[ Find The Ones That Has Always Been There ]
[ Then You Realize That Those Are The Ones With Which You Share ]
[ Your New Life With The Ones That You Love ]
[ Show Everyone How You Have Risen Above ]
[ The Turmoil ]
[ & Reward Those Who Have Remained Loyal ]
[ There May Be Only A Few ]
[ Maybe More Than Two ]
[ The Number Does Not What Matters ]
[ You Want To Line Up The Doubts ]
[ & Watch Them Shatter ]
[ Keep Moving Along ]
[ Show Those Who Thought That You Were Never Strong ]
[ The Best Part Of This Part ]
[ Is That You Prove Them All Wrong ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(984)▪︎[ It’s Hard … 7•24•2019 ]
[ Some Things In Life Can Be Extremely Hard ]
[ It All Depends On Who’s Carrying That Specific Card ]
[ On That Particular Day ]
[ Then You Have To Find That One Way ]
[ To Survive ]
[ & Take That Dive ]
[ To Stay Alive ]
[ What If You Had To Go Throughout Life With Diminishing
Sight? ]
[ Would You Lay Down & Wait For Death? ]
[ Or Stand Up, Face The Wind & Fight? ]
[ No One Wants To Take Death Head On ]
[ No One Wants To Be Here Today & Tomorrow Be Gone ]
[ As They Say (LIVE TODAY AS IF YOU WERE GOING TO BE
GONE TOMORROW) ]
[ No One Ever Said That Time Is Something You Can Borrow ]
[ When You Borrow Something, The Rule Is You Have To Give
It Back ]
[ How Does One Do That ]
[ When It’s Time That You Originally Lacked ]
[ So How Can You Pay Back Something That You Don’t Have
Extra Of? ]
[ Unless You Are Talking About Affection & Love ]
[ Love Can Grow & Grow & Grow Some More ]
[ If You Play Your Cards Right ]
[ Love Can Fill The Room, From The Ceiling To The Floor ]
[ But When Day Turns Into Night ]
[ Some Negative People Keep Score ]
[ When They Want To Fight ]
[ While Standing On The Other Side Of The Door ]
[ That Is A Good Place ]
[ For Them To Stand ]
[ So You Won’t To See The Face ]
[ Of The One Making Demands ]
[ You May Ask ( KEEP SCORE OF WHAT? ) ]
[ They Keep Score Of How Your Hair May Look ]
[ Or How Those Jeans Fit On Your Butt ]
[ Those Are The One’s That Always Cause The Strife ]
[ You Never Need Those Kinds Of People In Your Life ]
[ A Good Use Of A Verb ]
[ Is When You Tell Them That They Have Kicked To The Curb ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(700)▪︎[ What? … 8•15•2020 ]
[ Have You Ever Had One Of Those Days When Nothing
Made Sense? ]
[ & When You Go Into The Backyard ]
[ You Notice That There Are Two Tents? ]
[ Then You Felt Like Such A Goof ]
[ When You Stumbled Off Of The Roof ]
[ & Broke Your Last Tooth? ]
[ What Do You Do Now With A Crooked Smile? ]
[ When All You Want To Do ]
[ Is Run In The Long River Of Denial ]
[ Walk Then Run Until You Reach The Dry Land ]
[ Is Living A Want? ]
[ Or A Demand? ]
[ Grass Clippings In The Dishwasher, Shampoo In The
Sink ]
[ How Your Journey Has Come To This Point ]
[ Has You Ice Skating On The Roller Rink ]
[ Where Do You Dough From Here? ]
[ As You Cough Up Another Tear ]
[ Your Steak Does Not Taste Quite Right ]
[ When You Sneeze In Your Beer ]
[ When The Sun Rises In The West ]
[ Does It It Help You Grow Hair On Your Chest? ]
[ Or Do You Go To The Grocery Store Looking For Ice Cream
That Is Good, Better, Best? ]
[ After You Run Home Backwards ]
[ Then You Can Rest ]
[ When You Turn On The Light, Does That Help You Sleep? ]
[ Or Do You Stand In The Shallow End Of The Pool ]
[ & Only Splash Around When The Water Is Deep? ]
[ Life Is Really Confusing When You Open Your Ears ]
[ When You Fall Out Of Bed In The Afternoon ]
[ Do You See The Thunderous Cheers? ]
[ A Snake On The Floor Beats A Bird In The Hand ]
[ Will Anyone Feel It ]
[ When You Give That Command? ]
[ Nothing Makes Cents As Long As Your Knee ]
[ Life Is Really Confusing When Your Eyes Yell @ Me ]
[ Ice Cream, Ice Cream Is Always Cold On The Brain ]
[ Sometimes When You Eat It So Fast ]
[ It Feels Like You Are Swimming On A Train ]
[ Around & Around The Eyeballs Go ]
[ When Will The Stop Light Turn Yellow ]
[ You Will Never Know ]
[ Life Gets So Confusing When You Have To Say The
Alphabet Backwards In Numerical Order ]
[ Anybody Up For Burger King ]
[ As You Run For The Border? ]
[ A Taco From Baskin Robbins Sure Sounds Good Right
Now ]
[ But Since You Don’t Have A Car To Walk With ]
[ You Really Won’t Figure Out How ]
[ You Can Pick Up The Order That You Sent In Long
Before Yesterday ]
[ You Have Been Meaning To Get It ]
[ Since The 31st Of May ]
[ Life Sure Does Get Confusing The Younger You Get ]
[ You Are Sure Glad That You Have Known Me ]
[ Ever Since We Met ]
[ Make Sure You Don’t Break When You Only Mean To
Bend ]
[ So Now There Is No Need To Start Over ]
[ Once You’ve Started @ The End ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(033)▪︎[ It Is Your Fault … 1•10•2022 ]
[ Some Say That Nothing Is Fair ]
[ In Life ]
[ Because Some Show That They Care ]
[ By Showing You The Business End Of Their Knife ]
[ Some People Bake ]
[ Most People Take ]
[ You Have To Sort Out Which Is Which ]
[ Who Is Your Wife ]
[ & Stay Away From The Neighborhood Bitch ]
[ She Will Always Be Up To No Good ]
[ & When She Is Confronted ]
[ She Will Say That Her Intentions Were Misunderstood ]
[ Her Main Objective Is To Get In-Between Couples ]
[ Because In Her Eyes ]
[ She Doesn’t Like To See Doubles ]
[ She Will Try To Cause Strife ]
[ Between You & Your Wife ]
[ When Your Wife Is Walking Out The Front Door ]
[ She Wants To Give You Her Back Door ]
[ She Tries To Disrupt How You Live ]
[ By Her Letting You Do To Her ]
[ What Your Wife Won’t Give ]
[ This Is A Tornado That You Do Not Want Any Part Of ]
[ This Woman Wants The Opposite Of Love ]
[ Once She Has Her Claws In You She Won’t Let Up ]
[ She Wants To Work Them In Deep ]
[ Until You Are Cut ]
[ She Will Put Up This Fake Facade That You Are Wanted ]
[ This Is Just One Way That You Are Taunted ]
[ Once She Has You In Her Grasp, She Won’t Let Go ]
[ Right When You Think You Know ]
[ What Is Going On ]
[ She Emptied Your Safe & Was Gone ]
[ Even Though You Thought That Was So Wrong ]
[ You Need To Stand Strong ]
[ Because To Quench Your Cheating Thirst ]
[ You Were Really Wrong First ]
[ You Brought Her Into Your Life, Not The Other Way Around ]
[ You Were The One Lookin For Trouble ]
[ & She Was What You Found ]
[ You May Not Have Been Looking For THAT Much, But She Was
What You Found @ The Time ]
[ You Were Wealthy With Your Wife By Your Side ]
[ Now You Are Straddled With A Woman That Is Not Worth A
Dime ]
[ To Find Fault In All Of This, You Just Need To Look In The
Mirror ]
[ When You See Your Reflection ]
[ You Don’t Have The Right To Shed A Tear ]
[ Because You Were The One That Got Yourself Here ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1046)▪︎[ Totally Mislead … 12•12•2020 ]
[ In Today’s World, Life For Some, Is Filled With So Much Sorrow ]
[ Some Are Wondering About Today ]
[ & Then Dreading Tomorrow ]
[ Some Have Lost Everything ]
[ When They Go Home ]
[ They Cannot Find Anything ]
[ Their Belongings Are Just Gone ]
[ & The Massive Fires Keep Moving On ]
[ Destroying Everything In It’s Path ]
[ This Was The Utmost Worst Of Mother Nature’s
Wrath ]
[ That Has Ever Been Done ]
[ When Mother Nature Is Wielding A Loaded Gun ]
[ Get In Their Cars & Drive Fast ]
[ But Stay In Control ]
[ Everything Is Now In The Past ]
[ It Is Sad That Some Memories Will Eventually Fade ]
[ Through Time ]
[ Making Room For The New One’s Made ]
[ The Fires Just Came Out Of Nowhere ]
[ All @ The Same Time ]
[ There Was No One Out There ]
[ That Knew That The Elements Were Prime ]
[ For Fire ]
[ Causing Disasters From Downed Wires ]
[ & From Unusually Bad Lightning Storms ]
[ That Was Way Out Of The Norm ]
[ The Top Authorities Thought That COVID-19 Wasn’t
Going To Be That Bad ]
[ & When You See People Without Masks ]
[ That Can Make You Mad ]
[ Then The Fires Came ]
[ & Now, Nothing Will Ever Be The Same ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(709)▪︎[ Youthful Years … 8•19•2020 ]
[ Does Youth Always End With A Heart Ache? ]
[ Why Must Relationships During That Time ]
[ End With A Heart Break? ]
[ But Then Again, A Few Survive ]
[ Through The Years ]
[ & Some Live Their Lives ]
[ Crying Many Tears ]
[ Why Is It That Most Don’t Make It? ]
[ Is It That They Are Unable To Wade Through A Little Bit ]
[ Of Shit ]
[ But When Some Grow Old ]
[ They Don’t Turn Cold ]
[ & Just Fold ]
[ Carrying On A Long Relationship Is Definitely Not A
Piece Of Chocolate Cake ]
[ There Will Be Plenty Of Mistakes ]
[ That You’ll Make ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(713)▪︎[ The Sword … 8•20•2020 ]
[ Sometimes Life Seems To Be A Double Edged Sword ]
[ There Seems To Be Times ]
[ When It Gets Hard To Remember What You Are Walking
Towards ]
[ One Little Slip & You Could Fall Off Of Your Path ]
[ One Day You Could Wake Up ]
[ & Find That You No Longer Can Do Simple Math ]
[ Does 2+2 Still Add Up To Four In Your Head? ]
[ You Are Pleasantly Surprised That You Are Not Always
Cloudy ]
[ Because Of Your Huge List Of Meds ]
[ You Take This Med Because Of That ]
[ You Take Another Med For This ]
[ There Has To Be One For The Pain In Your Back ]
[ On That Long List ]
[ If There Is Not One, There Should ]
[ If You Had A Prescription For One, You Could ]
[ If You Had One To Take, You Would ]
[ The Double Edged Sword Part Comes Into Play When
Something Happens That Is Seen As Being Bittersweet ]
[ On One Hand Something May Fit In Your Life Nice & Neat ]
[ But On The Other Side You Could Feel Like You Had Just Been Knocked
Off Of Your Feet ]
[ & The Good Feelings That You Were Just Having Now Has To
Take A Backseat ]
[ If A Really Good Friend Gave You News That Was Hard To Take ]
[ Would The News Make ]
[ You Shake? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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