[ There Are Times When You Want To Take Your Mind ]
[ & Go Inside ]
[ To Run & Hide ]
[ You Hide From The Inside Out ]
[ Hurry, Hurry ]
[ There Is No Time To Pout ]
[ You Can Hide From The Outside World ]
[ You Hide From The Other Boys & Girls ]
[ When You Close Your Eyes ]
[ You Only See The Circles & Swirls ]
[ Swirls Where There Is No Beginning Or End ]
[ Lines That Keep Moving ]
[ None Of Them Straight ]
[ They All Just Bend ]
[ The Colors Blend ]
[ Together Into One Big Mixture ]
[ Can You Grab Ahold Of One Stable Fixture? ]
[ Are You Sure? ]
[ How Do You Keep Your Feet Planted Firmly On The
Ground ]
[ If You Got Lost Now ]
[ Would You Ever Be Found? ]
[ & Return Things To Normalcy? ]
[ Is Normal A Fallacy? ]
[ What Exactly Is Meant By Normal? ]
[ Is That The Time, When Sanity Is Formal? ]
[ It Gets All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go? ]
[ Are Things Going Fast ]
[ Or Can You Get It To Go Slow? ]
[ What Is False & What Is True? ]
[ Why Not Judge Me By The Things That I Say (NO)
To? ]
[ Like There Are Things That You Won’t ]
[ Let Happen ]
[ & Times Where You Don’t ]
[ Let Things Dampen ]
[ The Other Persons Mood ]
[ With A Bad Attitude ]
[ Because That Would Be Rude ]
[ Please Take Away The Things That Are Bad ]
[ Please Hide The Things That Make Others Sad ]
[ Add More Things That Make Them Smile ]
[ Let You Sit & Think Of Those Things For Awhile ]
[ No, Do Not Reach For That Dial ]
[ Not Just Yet ]
[ Things Are So Much Better When The Goals Have
Been Met ]
[ Life Is Such An Up & Down Event ]
[ There Are Times When I Wonder Where The Years,
Went ]
[ Do I Ask? ]
[ Was It Time Well Spent? ]
[ There Are Some Days You’re Down & Some Days
Where You’re Up ]
[ Just Like Some Days You Have Alot To Say ]
[ But Other Days You Just Want To Keep Your Mouth
Shut ]
[ There Are Days When You Catch Yourself Sitting
Back Watching Life Go By ]
[ You Tell Yourself No Lie ]
[ There Are So Many Things Happening Where You
Wonder (WHY?) ]
[ Why Did You Do This Or Why Did You Do That? ]
[ Do You Have Nine Lives, Like A Cat? ]
[ How Do You Stay On Task? ]
[ How Do You Make This Thought Last? ]
[ Thoughts Float In & Out Like Clouds Floating
Through ]
[ Do You Ever Think Of Some Things Like This Too? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(687)▪︎[ What You Have Been Dealt … 8•11•2020 ]
[ Sometimes You Just Have To Live With The Cards That You
Have Been Dealt ]
[ Because Time After Time ]
[ You Have Been Left With Welt After Welt ]
[ From All Of The Punches That Have Been Thrown ]
[ & Now Because Of All The Lies That Are Now Brightly Shown ]
[ This All Gets In Your Way ]
[ Because So Many Opportunities Have Been Blown ]
[ It All Starts To Weigh You Down ]
[ Turns A Smile Into A Frown ]
[ Turns The Green Leaves Brown ]
[ All Because Of What? ]
[ The Compliments That End With … But? ]
[ You Would Had Rather That They Were Never Said ]
[ Because They Cut ]
[ Sentences That Are Left Hanging ]
[ Conflicts That Are Not Changing ]
[ Sometimes You Feel That None Of This Matters ]
[ & The Window Showing Your Dreams ]
[ Completely Shatters ]
[ Sending Shards Of Glass Everywhere ]
[ But Nobody Cares ]
[ Everyone Just Stands There ]
[ & Stares ]
[ But You Stand Up & Do Your Best ]
[ To Wipe The Glass Off Of Your Head ]
[ & Chest ]
[ & Just Leave Without Saying A Word ]
[ Then Thinking ]
[ The Silence Was The Loudest Sound That You Had Ever
Heard ]
[ & Then @ The Last Moment ]
[ You Turn Around & Give Them The Bird ]
[ & Walk Away Laughing & Laughing ]
[ Because You Can See ]
[ That You Are Walking Away Totally Free ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(732)▪︎[ The Rising Water … 8•29•2020 ]
[ How Do You Keep Your Head Above The Rising
Water? ]
[ When The Air Around You Keeps Getting Hotter? ]
[ You Want To Dip Your Head Under To Feel Cool ]
[ But The Water Seems To Be Getting So High ]
[ You Have To Stand Up On Your Tallest Stool ]
[ If You Hold Your Breath, You Think You’ll Be Fine ]
[ Life On One Side, Death On The Other ]
[ They Are Just Separated Down The Middle By A Thin Line ]
[ If You Lean To The Right Will You Have Regret ]
[ But When You Look Around ]
[ You Don’t See That Anyone Is Left ]
[ Right Or Wrong ]
[ Having Blind Faith In Others ]
[ Proved That The Bond Was Not Strong ]
[ Two Or Three Have Stayed ]
[ They Never Strayed ]
[ & That Is All That You Have To Say ]
[ About Any Of This ]
[ Right Now On This Day ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(476)▪︎[ The Day Was Ruined … 6•8•2021 ]
[ How Come Pain Is Felt By One Guy, But Not The Other? ]
[ Does That Guy Know How To Cover? ]
[ Cover His Thoughts? ]
[ Cover His Heart? ]
[ This Guy Is Seeing Clearly, While That One Is Seeing Spots ]
[ (WHAT KIND?) Someone Might Ask ]
[ From Behind Their Mask ]
[ But Society Does Not Do This Anymore ]
[ Someone Might Ask Someday ]
[ But They Would Do That, From Behind A Closed Door ]
[ Behind The Door, People Can Rely On Annonymity ]
[ They Can Wreck Havoc ]
[ & Cause A Calamity ]
[ & Then Go On Their Merry Way ]
[ No Matter The Amount Of People’s Lives Were Ruined That Day ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(495)▪︎[ Dying Young … 6•16•2021 ]
[ If You Die Young ]
[ & There Was A Celebration Of Life Going On ]
[ Would Anybody Come? ]
[ Have You Been Going So Fast ]
[ That You Didn’t Leave Your Footprint On Anything In
Your Past? ]
[ Did You Cherish Money Over Time Spent With Others? ]
[ When You Did Find Time ]
[ You Chose To Stay Under Your Covers ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(479)▪︎[ What Do They Call … 6•9•2021 ]
[ How Does One Look Back & Write About Their Life? ]
[ Do They Sit Down & Look For That Light? ]
[ The Light That Flicks On That Helps You Make Sense
Of It All ]
[ That Light That Comes That Illuminates That Upcoming
Wall? ]
[ Oh Ya, That ]
[ As You Bend Over To Pick Up Your Hat ]
[ That Fell On The Floor Because Of The Wind ]
[ Has Just Now Blown In ]
[ But Back To Trying To See ]
[ What You Can Drag Out Of Your Memory ]
[ Why Do They Call It Your Memory Bank? ]
[ Sometimes The Memories Move As Fast As A Tank ]
[ But Sometimes Not As Obvious ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1091)▪︎[ Where Is Your Footprint? … 12•30•2021 ]
[ If You Die Young ]
[ & There Was A Celebration Of Life Going On ]
[ Would Anybody Come? ]
[ Or Would Every Loved One Be Gone? ]
[ Have You Been Going So Fast ]
[ That You Didn’t Leave Your Footprint On Anything In
Your Past? ]
[ Will There Be Any Remnants Of You, That Will Last? ]
[ Can You See Any Kind Of A Footprint? ]
[ Or Is That Just Pocket Lint? ]
[ Where Did The Time Go? ]
[ Do You Know? ]
[ It Seems That You Don’t ]
[ Will Your Neighbors Know Or Help? ]
[ You Bet They Won’t ]
[ How Come The Only Help ]
[ You Can Get ]
[ Is From The Lone Review On Yelp? ]
[ You Look & Look ]
[ But There Is Zero Chit Chat On Facebook ]
[ What About Your 100’s Of So Called Friends ]
[ Did Any Stick By You Through The End ]
[ You Are Finding Out That You Left Nothing Of Worth ]
[ On This Earth ]
[ Not In Your House ]
[ Or Words From Your Grieving Spouse ]
[ But You Quickly Find That She Is Not Grieving ]
[ She Is Packing Up & Leaving ]
[ Going Into The Unknown ]
[ Since All Of Your Life Insurance Has Been Blown ]
[ Why Should She Stay? ]
[ Another Week? ]
[ Or Another Day ]
[ Would You Want To Bet ]
[ That You Will Not Even Find Your Favorite Jacket? ]
[ Would That Be Given To The Goodwill Store? ]
[ Since It Does Not Have A Purpose Anymore ]
[ Did You Cherish Money Over Time Spent With Others? ]
[ When You Did Find The Time ]
[ You Chose To Stay Under Your Covers ]
[ How Come There Is Not A Single Clue ]
[ That There Has Been Any Footprint Made By You? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(478)▪︎[ Something In The Air … 6•8•2021 ]
[ There Is Doubt In The Air ]
[ Beyond Compare ]
[ No One Knows Where It Comes From ]
[ No One Knows The Reasons That Their Hands Went
Numb ]
[ They Just Did ]
[ & Nobody Hid ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1088)▪︎[ Falling … 12•18•2021 ]
[ You Sit There ]
[ Hoping That This Would Help You To Repair ]
[ The Noises That Are Going On In Your Mind ]
[ Because This Is Far From ]
[ Going Dakine ]
[ That Is Something That Your Conscious Mind Has To Tell
Your Subconscious Mind ]
[ So Sit Back & Relax ]
[ Make Sure That You Take Off Your Mask ]
[ So Your Breathing Is Not Taxed ]
[ Let’s Go ]
[ Into A Place That You Really Don’t Know ]
[ & That Is The Place Of Total Relaxation ]
[ The Opposite Form Of Maxation ]
[ Not Letting Your Mind Go Somewhere ]
[ Because It Cannot Go Anywhere ]
[ So You Sit Back & Wait ]
[ For The Gate ]
[ To Be Opened ]
[ Then ]
[ You Start To Fall ]
[ You Don’t Reach For Your Phone, To Make A Call ]
[ Because Then ]
[ You Find ]
[ That Everyone There, Is Irrelevant ]
[ Except One ]
[ The One Sane Person That Is Not Done ]
[ On This Run ]
[ You Are Still Falling ]
[ In Pitch Black Air ]
[ & You Are Not Balling ]
[ Your Eyes Out ]
[ Because This Little Hour Of Time ]
[ You Have No Doubt ]
[ That You Were Safe & Sound ]
[ From All Sides Around ]
[ The Falling Part You Could Not Comprehend ]
[ Was It Supposed To Lead To A Dead-End? ]
[ Or To A New Beginning ]
[ Where There Is Nothing But Winning ]
[ So What Happened To Nice Guys Always Finishes Last? ]
[ Well That Was With Another Cast ]
[ The One Person In Your Life That Is Always Relevant To You
In Your Life ]
[ That Is Nicole, Your Wife ]
[ Forever & Ever … Amen ]
[ She Has Always Been ]
[ The (THEN) & The (WHEN) ]
[ Of Your Past ]
[ Present ]
[ & Future ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1089)▪︎[ I Can’t Wait … 12•29•2021 ]
[ Oh, Cavarona Cavarona ]
[ I Sure Am Going To Miss Ya ]
[ I Know That Several Weeks Can Go By ]
[ In Between The Days When You Can Stop By To Say (HI) ]
[ The Main Point There Is That You CAN Do That ]
[ But You Can’t When You Are In The State Where Men
Primarily Wears A Cowboy Hat ]
[ Cavarona You Are Often A Ray Of Sunshine When All
There Is Outside Is Rain ]
[ Sometimes Your Texts Or Phone Calls Are Able To Wash
Away My Internal Pain ]
[ You Are Able To Look Inside Of Me ]
[ & You Are Not Afraid Of What You See ]
[ I Have Always Given Credit Where Credit Is Due ]
[ I Give The Credit For My Growth To You ]
[ You Challenged Me Around Every Corner ]
[ I Was Not Able To Hide No Longer ]
[ Like Little Jack Horner ]
[ You Are Able To Lift My Spirits ]
[ You Taught Me To No Longer To Take Any Shit ]
[ Because I’ve Taken Shit For Way Too Long ]
[ You Showed Me How That Was Wrong ]
[ With Your Encouraging Words ]
[ I’ve Been Able To Stand Up & Stay Strong ]
[ There Is Absolutely Nothing About You That I Don’t
Like ]
[ Before You, I Was Only Able To Ride A Trike ]
[ Now I Have Graduated To Maneuvering ]
[ On An Expensive Mountain Bike ]
[ You Inspire Me With How You Are So Alive ]
[ & How You Always Strive ]
[ To Thrive ]
[ You Know Me Almost As Well As You Know Yourself ]
[ You Have Been The Best Best Friend ]
[ Alot Better Then Anyone Else ]
[ I Will Have To Find A Way ]
[ To Keep Myself From Wanting To See You ]
[ While You Are Away ]
[ I Hope The Best For Your Family, Especially Concerning
The Health Of Your Mother ]
[ I Know That You Have Really Missed Seeing The Smiling
Faces Of Your Sisters & Brother ]
[ Wrap Them In A Hug & Hold Them Tight ]
[ Then Step Back & Enjoy The Sight ]
[ Always Show Them Love ]
[ Before You Part For The Night ]
[ Always Know That I Can’t Wait For You To Return ]
[ Because Through Our Friendship I Have Come To Learn ]
[ When I Don’t See That Beautiful Face For A Long Time
My Stomach Will Burn ]
[ When You Come Back I Will Greet You With Excitement
@ My Door ]
[ & Tell You That I’ve Missed You More ]
[ Than Ever Before ]
[ & Then I Will Give You A Great Big Hug & Not Let Go ]
[ Because I Always Want You To Know ]
[ I Was Sad That You Went ]
[ But I Do Understand Why You Had To Go ]
[ Now I’ll Be Ecstatic When You Get Back Here ]
[ & Once Again You Will Be Near ]
[ & When You Come To My Place ]
[ You Will See A Big Smile On My Face ]
[ Because You Are Home ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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