[ What Is It About A Man That Really Makes Him A Man? ]
[ Is There A Test To Be Taken ]
[ Just To Show How Much He Can? ]
[ Hammer In A Nail? ]
[ Deliver Milk Or The Mail? ]
[ Stay Away & Out Of Prison Or Jail? ]
[ You Have Never Seen That Test ]
[ That Would Help You Be The Best ]
[ You Always Thought That You Would Be Taught How To Be
A Man By Your Father ]
[ But Ever Since They Took You Into Their House ]
[ Don Asked Himself ( WHY SHOULD I BOTHER? ) ]
[ Don Would Had Rather Forget ]
[ The Day The Both Of You Met ]
[ You Thought You Were Supposed To Eventually Walk In
His Shoes ]
[ But You Saw All Of The Social Cues ]
[ That Showed You All Of The Clues ]
[ Don Did Not Gain A Son ]
[ He Gained An Annoyance ]
[ You Guess To Know When He Was Done ]
[ You Needed To Be Clairvoyant ]
[ Don Never Wanted To Teach Or Coach ]
[ He Looked @ You As If You Were A Roach ]
[ He Just Wanted To Sweep This Life Size Bug ]
[ Right Under The Rug ]
[ Not Ever Taking The Time ]
[ & Give You Direction In Life ]
[ On How To Save A Dime ]
[ Never Showing You How To Make A Roast ]
[ Or Even Teaching You How To Make Perfect Toast ]
[ All He Ever Did Was Dream Of Living @ The Coast ]
[ Not One Single Day Did He Invest ]
[ So All That He Did ]
[ Was To Move To The Beach To Enjoy The Sunsets ]
[ Every Wednesday Night He Would Leave The House To Be A
Mentor To Boys That He Didn’t Know ]
[ Where Were Your Oats That You Deserved To Sow? ]
[ He Was Always Happy When He Was There ]
[ But @ Home, He ALWAYS Showed That He NEVER Cared ]
[ Not One, Tiny, Little Bit ]
[ So All The While That You Were Growing Up ]
[ You Must Have Not Been Worth A Shit ]
[ So You Always Bit ]
[ Your Lip ]
[ & Put Up With All Of It ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[59][ Paris, France … 1•16•2020 ]
[ When I Was Sittin’ In The Park In Paris France ]
[ The Music In My Head ]
[ Made Me Want To Stand Up & Dance ]
[ But Instead ]
[ I Got Cold Feet & Didn’t Want To Take A Chance ]
[ A Chance Of Embarrassing Myself ]
[ @ The Time ]
[ I Couldn’t Think Of Anything Else ]
[ Dance Without Music Playing Out Loud ]
[ What If I Looked So Silly ]
[ I Drew A Crowd? ]
[ Oh How Embarrassing That Could Be ]
[ For Me ]
[ I’d Probably Shrink To Knees ]
[ & Crawl To The Sea ]
[ Then I’d Want To Be Unrecognizable ]
[ Not Desirable ]
[ I Would Have Really Liked To Have Gathered Up All Of
My Hodge Podge ]
[ & Taken The First Amtrak Train Out Of Dodge ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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[057][ Don’t … Or Won’t … 1•15•2
[ Help Me Up When I Fall ]
[ Answer The Phone When I Call ]
[ Be Excited To Think About What’s Next ]
[ Answer Me In A Timely Manner, When I Text ]
[ Be Quick ]
[ To Help Me When I’m Sick ]
[ When I’m Waiting For You @ The Door ]
[ Come Running Across The Floor ]
[ Please Don’t Make A Peep ]
[ When I’ve Finally Gone Into A Deep ]
[ Sleep ]
[ Don’t Blatantly Watch The Clock ]
[ When We’re Finally Able To Sit Down & Talk ]
[ You Can Never Go Wrong ]
[ When You Take A Little Time Out Of Your Day ]
[ To Sing Me A Song ]
[ I Thank The Big Man Above ]
[ For Giving You The Want & Ability To Show Me Your Love ]
[ Thank You God For Not Letting Me Be Done ]
[ When There Are Those Times ]
[ When Life Is No Fun ]
[ The Joy That It Brings ]
[ Comes Out When You Act Like A Kid ]
[ Playing On The Swings ]
[ Never Make Up An Excuse ]
[ When You Point The Finger & Accuse ]
[ Help Me Be The Man ]
[ That I Think I Can ]
[ Please Spend The Rest Of Your Life ]
[ Putting Forth The Effort To Be The Very Best Wife ]
[ I Try Every Night ]
[ To Be Your Guiding Light ]
[ Then During The Day ]
[ I’ll Make A Path To Show You The Way ]
[ I Have A Son, Not A Daughter ]
[ So Please Give Me The Strength ]
[ To Be A Loving, Understanding, Non-Judgmental Father ]
[ Don’t Push Our Love Off Of A Cliff ]
[ Just Because We Have A Rift ]
[ I Hope I Never Give You The Shaft ]
[ By Not Giving You An Oar ]
[ In Life’s Raft ]
[ Your Love ]
[ Covers My Heart ]
[ Like A Tight Fitting Glove ]
[ You Are Worth Every Dime ]
[ Of My Time ]
[ I Don’t Ever Want You To Run ]
[ When You’re Angry ]
[ & Think That We’re Done ]
[ You Never Needed A Book ]
[ To Teach You How To Cook ]
[ Always Think That Is The Norm ]
[ When I Want To Protect You ]
[ From An Incoming Storm ]
[ Never Think Of It Is A Joke ]
[ When It’s Cold Outside ]
[ & I Offer You My Coat ]
[ I Won’t Give A Hoot ]
[ If You Want To Go Out & Buy ]
[ A Brand New Pair Of Boots ]
[ I Always Feel That I’m Doing A Good Deed ]
[ When I Help Those In Need ]
[ During The Times That We Fight ]
[ I Don’t Ever Want To Lose Sight ]
[ Of What We Both Know Is Right ]
[ Please Help Me Show My Son ]
[ That He & I Are Not Done ]
[ You’ve Had My Heart ]
[ From The Very Start ]
[ I’ve Always Known That You Could ]
[ Once You Agreed That You Would ]
[ When We’re Apart ]
[ I Feel An Ache In My Heart ]
[ I’ve Tried To Do My Part ]
[ Since The Very Start ]
[ When You Used To Come Over & Talk For Hours Every Night ]
[ It Made My Outlook On The Next More Bright ]
[ Please Don’t Build A Fence ]
[ With A Long Silence ]
[ All Of The Time That I Spend With You, Is A Play ]
[ Day ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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[ 41 ][ Don’t Take The Blame … 1•10•2020 ]
[ There’s Something About Intense Pain That Brings
Everything Into Focus ]
[ There’s No Magic Words Like (HOCUS POCUS) ]
[ That Doesn’t Make The Picture Any Clearer ]
[ I Guess That’s What Starts The Emotion, Called Fear ]
[ Fear Of The Unknown ]
[ Regret Because Of The Past Opportunities That Were
Blown ]
[ Were There Any Opportunities Shown? ]
[ Do You Believe That Things Can Seem Fine ]
[ Even Though Your Thinking Doesn’t Fall In Line? ]
[ With Those That Are All Around You @ The Time ]
[ Even Though Your Thinking Is Benign ]
[ Even Though Others Feel Like You’re A Cancer ]
[ They Really Don’t Know That You Have The Answers ]
[ Just Because You Don’t Think Like Them, Doesn’t
Make Your Thoughts Wrong ]
[ & Even If Your Explainations Are In Depth & Long ]
[ What You Say Makes Your Points Strong ]
[ So You Should Keep Marching To Your Own Beat ]
[ & Keep Moving Your Feet ]
[ Keep Holding Their Hand To That Open Flame ]
[ If You Didn’t Do It ]
[ Never Take The Blame ]
[ & Don’t Care One Bit ]
[ If You Don’t Feel Ashamed ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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[ 46 ][ They Just Don’t … 1•12•2020 ]
[ People Don’t Change, Times Do ]
[ When You Have Food In Your Mouth ]
[ Can You Do Anything But Chew? ]
[ The World Can Chew You Up & Spit You Out ]
[ It Will Show You What Pain Is All About ]
[ You Can Shout ]
[ All You Want ]
[ & Pout ]
[ Until Your Face Looks Gaunt ]
[ When Your Body Runs Out Of Energy ]
[ & You Fall To Your Knees ]
[ How Will You Be? ]
[ Your Eyes Have Witnessed Quite Alot For Someone @
Your Young Age ]
[ Happiness, Sadness, Joy, Frustration ]
[ & An Awful Lot Of Rage ]
[ Sometimes You’ve Come Across People So Angry ]
[ You’d Think They Had Spent The Last Couple Of Years
Locked Up In A 10′ By 10′ Cage ]
[ But They Say That’s What Prison Can Do To A Guy ]
[ Especially When He Gets Convicted Of A Crime ]
[ That Makes Everybody Asks Each Other (WHY?) ]
[ Why Was He Convicted, Everyone Knows He Was Framed? ]
[ The Powers That Be Said That He Did It ]
[ & They Put Him Out There To Be Blamed ]
[ When He Was Put Into A Pit ]
[ Things For Him, Were Never The Same ]
[ When Society Put Him Into That Role ]
[ He Lost His Soul ]
[ He Was Put Into An Impossible Situation ]
[ Like Trying To Climb A Greased Pole ]
[ How Could He Do That Task? ]
[ He Definitely Could Not Do It Fast ]
[ Even When Asked ]
[ So How Do You Bring Someone Back ]
[ After They’ve Been Mentally Attacked? ]
[ Can Anyone Come Back & Be Like They Were? ]
[ That Is One Thing Where People Are Not So Sure ]
[ But They Try, Try, Try Their Best ]
[ Most Eventually Give Up ]
[ & Put Their Past Life To Rest ]
[ Then They Become A Shell Of The Person That They
Used To Be ]
[ & In Their Mind ]
[ Their Soul Will Never, Ever Be Totally Free ]
[ Give Up, Give In & Then Say Goodnight ]
[ All They Can Say ]
[ Is That They Have No More Fight ]
~ 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 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 Lye ]
[ 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 ]
[ 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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[716][ What Is Your Point? … 8•21•2020 ]
[ 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 Was 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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[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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[123][ Not What I Wanted To Do … 4•6•2021 ]
[ Well Isn’t That Just Great ]
[ I Just Did Something That I Hate ]
[ I Just Hurt ]
[ Someone That Is So Important To Me ]
[ With My Written Words ]
[ My Words Usually Sing Out The Truth About What I
Want To Say ]
[ But This Did Not Happen Yesterday ]
[ They Came Across Strong ]
[ But Maybe The Explaination Was Way Too Long ]
[ So Then The Whole Meaning ]
[ Came Out All Wrong ]
[ When I’m Here ]
[ I Think I Explain Myself Well ]
[ But It Has Been Made Abundantly Clear ]
[ That My Message Went To Hell ]
[ Hurt Towards You Should Never Had Been There ]
[ What I Was Attempting To Say & Share ]
[ Is How Much I Miss You & Care ]
[ You Used To Be Here @ Least Two Days A Week, Sometimes
More ]
[ I Would Get SO Excited When I Heard Your Soft Knock On
My Door ]
[ Then I Knew You Were All Mine ]
[ Into The Night ]
[ Until @ Least Nine ]
[ But … Now You Are Not Here ]
[ & That Causes A Tear ]
[ & Then Another One ]
[ & Another One ]
[ I Find That Doing This Is Not Very Fun! ]
[ I Would Much Rather Give You A Big Long Hug ]
[ Then Pull Your Heart Out ]
[ To Give It A Tug ]
[ Hurting Is/Has/Was/Never On My Mind ]
[ When It Comes To You, Cavarona ]
[ I Am Not That Kind ]
[ Of Person Or Friend ]
[ I’ll Feel That Way To The Very End! ]
[ & I Will So Fight ]
[ For That Conclusion ]
[ To Not Be Anywhere In My Sight! ]
[ Especially After This Discussion ]
[ It Will Not Be Tonight! ]
[ You Are The Cavarona Clear To The Bone ]
[ That Is Shown ]
[ As Well As It’s Known ]
[ Whenever You Take A Trip To The Beach Like You Will & Do ]
[ You Can Look @ That Bag With The Lousy Emblem ]
[ & Know That I Was Thinking Of You When I Bought That For You ]
[ You Are So Missed ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[1045][ Don’t Be Blind … 12•12•2020 ]
[ The Eyes Are Useless When The Mind Is Blind ]
[ They Can’t Help You See ]
[ That Your Actions @ The Moment Will Put You In
A Bind ]
[ A Closed Mind Will Never Let You Hear ]
[ When Something That Used To Be So Far Away Is
Now Near ]
[ When @ Times You Think That The World Stops @
The Tip Of Your Nose ]
[ You Will Find That That The Consequences You Get ]
[ May Be The Results Of The Choices That You Chose ]
[ On This Life Path That You Are Now Walking On ]
[ For If You Become Too Careless ]
[ You Could Wake Up One Morning & All That You Have
Grown To Love Is Now All Gone ]
[ Maybe @ The Fork In The Road In Your Life ]
[ You Quickly Went Left ]
[ When Everyone Else Went Right ]
[ It Is Not So Much That You Took The Easier Low
Road ]
[ But It Seemed @ Times ]
[ That You Made Everyone Around You See That You
Hardly Ever Pulled Your Whole Load ]
[ Society Is A Social Bunch ]
[ Always Loving Companionship For Dinner, Breakfast &
Lunch ]
[ A Possible Reason Why Society Is Bitter, Anti-Social &
Mean ]
[ May Be Because This Virus ]
[ Made Everybody Self Quarantine ]
[ Social Deprivation Can Have Very Harmful Effects]
[ It Can Cause Some People To Disrespect ]
[ Others That They Suspect ]
[ That May Have Contracted & Then Spreading This
‘VID19 Virus ]
[ That Is Harming & Killing Us ]
[ With A Closed Mind, So Goes Your Vision ]
[ A Closed Mind, Can Also Cause Division ]
[ Division Amongst The Family & Friends That Has
Always Stood By Your Side ]
[ You Also Will Find Out Who Has Constantly Lied ]
[ Lied, Because When The Water Gets Turbulent For
The Fair Weathered Friends They Are The First
To Bail ]
[ They Will No Longer Return Your Calls ]
[ Or Respond To Your Many Emails ]
[ They Will Look & Find ]
[ The Smallest Reasons ]
[ To Erase The Thoughts About You In Their Mind ]
[ & Then Become Devoid Of All Compassion ]
[ As They Leave You Behind ]
[ You Will Feel That Their Mind Has Shut Off & Shut
Down ]
[ So Where Once Your Eyes Saw Pretty Colors ]
[ All They See Now Is Grays & Browns ]
[ But Do Not Walk In Their Footsteps ]
[ & Then Do It To Others ]
[ Because You Know How It Feels To Be Left ]
[ By Your Mother & Brothers ]
[ A Closed Mind Prevents You From Growing
Throughout The Upcoming Days, Months & Years ]
[ It Is Not A Guarantee That A Closed Mind Prevents Tears ]
[ Open Your Mind, Eyes & Take The Headphones Off
Of Your Ears ]
[ & Your Head ]
[ Then Make A Stand To Listen To What Is Said Right
Here ]
[ Instead ]
[ Of Trying To Listen To What Is Going On Over There ]
[ For If It Involved You]
[ You Should Hope That They Would Share ]
[ It With You, Too ]
[ Don’t Say (NOPE) ]
[ & Jump Ship ]
[ Because You Felt There Was No Hope ]
[ Some People With A Closed Mind Will Stand There For
Awhile ]
[ & Give You Their Best Smile ]
[ All The While ]
[ Wondering What Is Going On Down The Road About A Mile ]
[ Then You Come To Realize Some Close Minded People
Never Intend To Change ]
[ They Feel That Would Be Doing Something Extremely
Strange ]
[ That Is When You Decide To Rearrange Your Priorities
& Make Better Use Of Your Effort & Time ]
[ If You Choose To Put One More Minute Into Them ]
[ That Would Be A Crime ]
[ Then You Can Turn Your Attention On Another
Mountain To Climb ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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