[ 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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(029)▪︎[ The New? … 1•8•2022 ]
[ Sometimes The Ones That Motivate You The Most ]
[ Are The Ones That Believe In You The Least ]
[ Those Are The Ones That You Toast ]
[ When Looking @ The Stars In The East ]
[ You Cannot Please, Most Of The People, All Of The Time ]
[ But When You Are In For A Nickel ]
[ You Should Be In It For A Dime ]
[ When You Look Deep Down Into Your Soul ]
[ Do You See Fire ]
[ Or Do You See Unused Coal? ]
[ Never Write, What You Do Not Mean ]
[ Never Be In Public, When Making A Scene ]
[ You Should Gather Up All Of That Unused Fuel ]
[ Use It & Love It ]
[ Like It Is A Priceless Jewel ]
[ Project Your Voice, As If You Were Using A Megaphone ]
[ If You Don’t Know How To Use It ]
[ Ask For It To Be Shown ]
[ Insist That Family Comes First ]
[ No Matter Your Own Hunger ]
[ No Matter Your Own Thirst ]
[ Life Does Not Come With A Remote Control ]
[ Nobody Wants Someone To (ROCK) ]
[ When They Should (ROLL) ]
[ There Is Never A (MUTE) Button When It Is Needed ]
[ But If They Do Go Quiet ]
[ You Have Succeeded ]
[ Success Is Measured Differently By Each Person That
Seeks It ]
[ Some Get Flowers & Awards ]
[ While Others Just Get Shit ]
[ You Can Never Gauge Loss Unless You Have Winners ]
[ You Cannot See Angels ]
[ If You Can’t See Sinners ]
[ Because You Cannot Know How Much You’ve Got ]
[ Until The Winning Has Stopped ]
[ Possessions Are Not The Measurement On Which You Are
A Man ]
[ Or All Of His Failures ]
[ Or All That He Can ]
[ A Man Should Be Measured By What He Reflects In The Mirror ]
[ Are His Eyes Clear? ]
[ Is He Filled With Fear ]
[ About Losing All That He Holds Dear? ]
[ That Would, Should & Could Be The Norm ]
[ In A Breakable Form ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(022)▪︎[ Pain … 1•6•2022 ]
[ Some Say That Solace Must Be Discovered ]
[ If You Lose It, Can It Be Recovered? ]
[ Sometimes Loneliness Can Zap Your Powers ]
[ You Can’t Wash Lonely Off In The Showers ]
[ It Would Be Nice If It Was Tangible & You Could Wash It
Off Of Your Back, Like Dirt ]
[ The Same Goes For Hurt ]
[ Both Of Those Are A Feeling ]
[ Both Of Those Could Send You Reeling ]
[ There Are Different Ways Of Getting Or Being Lonely In Life ]
[ The Worst Way ]
[ Would Be Losing Your Husband Or Wife ]
[ That Would Then Give You The Hurt That You Would Never
Have Dreamed Of ]
[ All Because You Lost The One Person Who Was Supposed
To Be YOUR Lifetime Love ]
[ That Kind Of Hurt Gives All Kinds Of Pain ]
[ That Kind Never Wanes ]
[ That Kind Of Pain You Can Not Wash Off ]
[ There Is More Pain When You Feel Totally Lost ]
[ Pain Is Pain ]
[ It Is What Everyone Disdains ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1086)▪︎[ Just Passing Through … 8•25•2019 ]
[ 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 ]
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