[ Someone Once Said (TO BE SILENT IS TO BE ENSLAVED) ]
[ Does That Also Mean (IF YOU ARE SILENT, YOU ARE WELL
BEHAVED?) ]
[ You Don’t Always Believe That When You Are Silent, You
Are A Slave ]
[ You Are Not Always Loud When There Is Something You
Crave ]
[ Sometimes Silence Could Actually Be The Answer To A
Question Or Situation ]
[ Sometimes It Comes From Major Irritation ]
[ Sometimes Silence Is The Best Thing You Could Hear ]
[ You Never Want An Argument Starting Near ]
[ You Could Get Silence From Anyone ]
[ Depending On The Situation ]
[ Silence Could Say A Ton ]
[ You Could Think That You Are Being Ignored ]
[ It Could Also Mean That The Person That Was Being Silent ]
[ Could Have Bored ]
[ Not Everyone Has Something To Say ]
[ Or Some Could Be Irritating In The Worst Way ]
[ Those People You Really Hope Would Remain Silent ]
[ Or Quiet ]
[ If You Don’t Have Anything Nice, Than Say Nothing @ All ]
[ Maybe, Better Luck On The Next Call ]
[ When Some People Say That They Want To Put Their (2)
Cents In ]
[ You Want To Give Them Change Back ]
[ Then Ask Them If They Would Like To Try That Again? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(942)▪︎[ Don’t Let Them … 7•13•2019 ]
[ Let ‘Em Laugh ]
[ Let ‘Em Spin ]
[ But Don’t Let Them Cut You In Half ]
[ & Win ]
[ Where Do You Start? ]
[ When Do You Finish? ]
[ Do You Give It Your Heart? ]
[ Or Is That Just A Wish? ]
[ When You Watch What You Say ]
[ & Then Figure Things Out ]
[ You’ll Come To The Day ]
[ When You Figure Out What Life Is All About ]
[ When You Play To Win, Not Lose ]
[ You Make The Conscious Choice ]
[ To Choose ]
[ Of Whether Or Not To Use Your Voice ]
[ Or Drown Your Sorrows In Booze ]
[ Alcohol Is Not The Choice That You Should Make ]
[ There Could Be ]
[ The Chance When You Wake ]
[ Your Head Could Feel Like You’ve Been Through An
Earthquake ]
[ When Your Head Rattles & Rolls ]
[ It’s Your Body That Takes The Toll ]
[ Each & Everytime You Come To ]
[ You Are Less Than Whole ]
[ In Today’s Society ]
[ Much Less Your Own Family ]
[ One Day You’ll Wake & See ]
[ How Things Are No Longer Free ]
[ & How Destructive Your Behavior Can Be ]
[ To Yourself ]
[ & To Everyone Else ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(108)▪︎[ Lock-Up … 1•30•2018 ]
[ As I Lie Back On My Bunk ]
[ I Think Of All The Junk ]
[ That Got Me In To This Funk ]
[ In The First Place ]
[ I Get Up And Look @ Myself In The Mirror ]
[ @ This Old, Tired & Haggard Face ]
[ & It Becomes Perfectly Clear ]
[ What Knocked Me Off Of My Base ]
[ & Sent Me Here ]
[ I Must Have Drank At Least A Half Case ]
[ Of That Really Expensive Beer ]
[ That Is When My Dear ]
[ Sweet Life, Went To Waste ]
[ When I Crashed My Car, Into Another Car ]
[ & Then Into A Tree ]
[ That Left Me With Many Scars ]
[ & A Life That Is No Longer Free ]
[ & The Memories That I Killed My Wife ]
[ & Close Friend Stephen Agee ]
[ How Can I Continue To Go Through Life ]
[ Looking In The Mirror @ Me ]
[ When The Flashbacks Cut Like A Knife ]
[ Through My Waking Pysche ]
[ So Now Here I Am In State Prison ]
[ Standing Behind Line After White Line ]
[ With Shattered Dreams & No Vision ]
[ Hearing Other Inmates Whine ]
[ About The Sentences They Got ]
[ Then I Take One Look @ Mine ]
[ & Know That I Was Sentenced To Rot ]
[ In Here ]
[ & Be Nothing But A Robot ]
[ That Makes It Clear ]
[ That Because Of The Notoriety ]
[ The Judge Made My Fears ]
[ Come True ]
[ & Made It Seem Like It Was His Number One Priority ]
[ For Me To Die In This Hell Hole ]
[ & Keep Me Away From Society ]
[ Because Of What I Stole ]
[ From My Wife’s & Best Friends Families ]
[ So I Hope As I Step Out Of My Cell Door ]
[ The Almighty Man Above ]
[ Will Open His Arms & Show Me Love ]
[ As I Fly Like A Dove ]
[ Telling Everyone I’m Bailing ]
[ As I Leap Off The Railing ]
[ Of The Fifth Floor ]
[ Now They’ll Be No More ]
[ Pictures Of Horror ]
[ Running Through My Head ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1335)▪︎[ It’s Not Always … 11•23•2019 ]
[ Perfection Is Not Always Possible ]
[ But Progress Is ]
[ When Things Look Impossible ]
[ That’s When You Make A Wish ]
[ A Wish That Can Come True ]
[ Maybe Even Some Kind Of An Action That You Knew ]
[ You Could Do ]
[ Be It Make More Money Or Be Patient As You Wait ]
[ Maybe A Wish Could Be ]
[ Walking Clear Across The State ]
[ Then Maybe You Will See ]
[ If You Could Possibly Find Your Lifetime Mate ]
[ Then You Could Settle Down & Have A Child Or Two ]
[ Then You Could Mold Them ]
[ Into ]
[ A Miniature You ]
[ Or Maybe You’d Want ]
[ To Have Them As Complete Opposites ]
[ Instead Of An Identical Robot ]
[ Not Everyone Wants To Raise An Identical Twin ]
[ Unless You Give Birth To The Pair ]
[ Where Would You Begin? ]
[ Would You Always Want To Look In The Mirror
Whenever You Look @ Your Child? ]
[ Would You Want A Copy Of The Wild Side? ]
[ Or The One That Was Most Mild? ]
[ I Would Want My Son ]
[ To Be His Own Person ]
[ Perfection Is Not Attainable ]
[ Even If You Are Really Personable ]
[ Is The Chance To Be Always Available? ]
[ No ]
[ So ]
[ Does That Mean That You Don’t Try? ]
[ Do You Really Want Or Mean To Be That Guy? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1347)▪︎[ I Was The One Rewarded … 11•28•2019 ]
[ I Just Had A Homeless Man Carrying What Seemed To
Be His Sole Possession, A Blanket, Come Up To Me &
Say (EXCUSE ME SIR, I KNOW I’m NOT SUPPOSED
TO ASK, BUT DO YOU HAVE A SPARE DOLLAR? } ]
[ He Looked @ Me Timid Like, Expecting Me To Holler ]
[ I Immediately Thought About How Polite He Was
Being @ The Time ]
[ So I Wanted To Give Him More Than Just A Dollar &
A Dime ]
[ I Pulled A Couple Of Dollars From The Pocket Of My
Shorts ]
[ Then When I Handed Them To Him ]
[ He Seemed All Out Of Sorts ]
[ I Guess, Because This Is How We Met ]
[ He Thought That I Would Get Upset ]
[ As He Was Slowly Walking Away ]
[ I Wondered (DO YOU THINK THAT HE HAD ANYTHING
TO EAT TODAY?) ]
[ I Followed Him Until I Caught Up With Him From
Behind ]
[ I Wanted To Hit REWIND ]
[ Because In My Mind ]
[ I Should Have Given Him More Than I Did ]
[ So When I Pulled A Different Bill Out ]
[ & Into His Hand It Slid ]
[ I Wanted To Shout ]
[ I Feel As Carefree As A Kid ]
[ He Looked @ The $20 Bill In His Hand ]
[ A Beaming Smile Covered His Face ]
[ Then It Went Away ]
[ As He Asked (ARE YOU SURE MAN?) ]
[ I Reassured Him That I Was Sure ]
[ Because My Intentions Were Altruistic & Pure ]
[ As I Walked Away ]
[ I Felt Like I Was The One That Was Rewarded Today ]
[ I Told The Stranger To Have A Meal On Me ]
[ So @ Least He Will Not Be ]
[ Cold & Hungry ]
[ He’s Already Set ]
[ With His Blanket ]
[ As He Walked Away, He Looked @ The Ground & Shook His Head ]
[ & It All Started When He Said ]
[ (EXCUSE ME SIR …) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1355)▪︎[ The Hero … 11•29•2019 ]
[ Heroes Can Come In Many Shapes & Sizes ]
[ One Thing That You’ll Never See ]
[ Is Them Hiding Behind Fake Disguises ]
[ They Stand Up & Stand Tall ]
[ Alot Of What They’ve Done ]
[ Is Lay Down Their Lives To Save Us All ]
[ Be It Running Into A Burning House ]
[ Or Getting In-Between A Person & Their Angry Spouse ]
[ The House May Have The Walls Falling In ]
[ On Itself ]
[ The Other Spouse May Have Sin ]
[ On Their Mind, Directed @ Someone Else ]
[ A Hero Can Come In The Form Of A Paramedic,
Fireman, Policeman Or Soldier ]
[ It’s Not That A Hero Must Be Older ]
[ It’s That They Must Be Bolder ]
[ Soldiers Go To War Often Against A Faceless Enemy ]
[ They Put Their Lives On The Line ]
[ To Protect The Rights For Us In America To Live Free ]
[ They’ll Never Meet Me Today Or Tomorrow ]
[ Because Of What They Do ]
[ They Could Be Confronted With Death Or Sorrow ]
[ But Who Is There For Them During Those Restless
Nights ]
[ When The Wrong Memory ]
[ Could Cause Them Night Sweats & Fright ]
[ We Always Go Home @ The End Of The Day ]
[ & Things Are Alright ]
[ Who Checks On The Heroic To Make Sure Things Are
Okay? ]
[ Heroes Are Born Because That Is Not A Learned
Behavior ]
[ Not Just Anyone Has The Courage To Be A Soldier ]
[ Sometimes Kids Will Point To A Picture & Say (I WANT
TO GROW-UP & BE JUST LIKE HIM) ]
[ That Man’s Name Could Be Hank, Billy Or Jim ]
[ But This Courage Isn’t Taught From A Book ]
[ When Push Comes To Shove, It Comes From Within ]
[ When One Is Asked (HOW DID YOU DO THAT
TODAY?) ]
[ They’ll Probably Just Shrug & Say (I DON’t KNOW,
THINGS JUST HAPPENED THAT WAY) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1321)▪︎[ To People, Or Not To People … 11•16•2019 ]
[ Okay, Okay, Okay ]
[ I Guess I’ll Have To People Today ]
[ Sometimes Having To People Is A Drag ]
[ There Are Days When It’s Not My Bag ]
[ & Then To Get Me Going ]
[ I Have To Play Tag ]
[ It’s Not That I Need To Be Touched To Get Me Going Everytime ]
[ But If I Had My Choice ]
[ I’d Stay @ Home To Write More Rhymes ]
[ Does That Make Me A Bad Person Inside & Out? ]
[ If I Don’t Want To People With You ]
[ Will That Make You Pout? ]
[ Having To People Is Not Just Physical ]
[ The Way I Get Mentally Ready ]
[ Could Be Looked @ As Kind Of Quizzical ]
[ It’s Not Something That I Can See, Taste Or Hear ]
[ Oftentimes When I Look Within ]
[ The Why Isn’t Always Clear ]
[ It’s Kind Of Like Going Dakine ]
[ It’s Not What I Show You Or Say ]
[ But It Is A State Of Mind ]
[ It’s Like Taking A Deep Breath & Gathering All Of The
Energy That I Can Muster ]
[ It Definitely Is Not As Fun As Eating A Pie Full Of Custard ]
[ When I Have To People That Means That I Have To Get
Up & Get Dressed ]
[ & I Don’t Do It To Make Others Impressed ]
[ Sometimes When I Have To People I Just Feel [ HO
HUM ] ]
[ Those Are Also The Times When My Feelings Towards
Others Are Totally Numb ]
[ & Then The Dilemma Of Going Here Or There ]
[ Do I Make The Effort To Care? ]
[ But I’m Glad That When I Have To People I Don’t Have
A Case Of Bed Head ]
[ That’s Because I Smoothly Shave My Head Instead ]
[ So I Don’t Have That Matted Down Look ]
[ Like The Crumpled Up Pages Of An Old Discarded
Book ]
[ Having To People Is Not Always A Bad Thing
Everyday ]
[ Because Most Of The Times I Do Have A Say ]
[ It’s Those Days ]
[ When I Can’t Find The Ways ]
[ To Do What I Want To Do ]
[ So When I Don’t Have To People & I Can Just Sit On
The Couch & Be Lazy ]
[ @ Times The Thought Of Having To Get Up & Get
Dressed To People Can Drive Me Crazy ]
[ Having To People Everyday Could Have It’s Benefits
I Guess ]
[ But If I Was Asked Everyday To Do It ]
[ I Would Have A Really Hard Time Saying (YES) ]
[ I’d Much Rather Stay On The Couch In My
Comfortable Around The House Clothes ]
[ That Idea For Me ]
[ Is Comfort From My Head, Clear Down To My Toes ]
[ There Might Be Days When You Would Want Me To
People With You & My Voice Takes On A More
Defiant Tone ]
[ Those Are The Days When I Want To Spend The Day
On The Couch ]
[ Being @ Home All Alone ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1323)▪︎[ Does It Matter? … 11•16•2019 ]
[ The Music Was Soothing ]
[ But After Two Hours Of Snoozing ]
[ The Little, But Loud, Voice In My Head ]
[ Was Trying To Convince Me To Get Out Of Bed ]
[ The Voice Was Asking (DOES IT MATTER WHERE YOU
ARE?) ]
[ (OR WHO’s WITH YOU?) ]
[ When You Are Riding In Your Car ]
[ Why Does Any Of This Matter In The Bigger Scheme
Of Things? ]
[ Is Luck One Of The Most Important Things That Life
Brings? ]
[ But Good Luck Is Not The Only Kind Of Luck Out
There ]
[ There’s More Bad, Than Good For You To Share ]
[ Through The Years ]
[ It Has Become Perfectly Clear ]
[ That I Have The Luck Of A Cracked Mirror ]
[ But They Say That The Numbers Of Bad Years End
@ Seven ]
[ Mine Seems To Start Over Again @ Eleven ]
[ Actually My Bad Luck Is On A Constant Bad Luck
Loop ]
[ It’s Never Just Been One Bad Event ]
[ My Bad Events Comes In Groups ]
[ My Kind Of Luck Is Like Finding A Shiny Penny That
Has The Heads Up ]
[ When I Bend Over To Pick It Up I’d Get Cut ]
[ It Would Be My Kind Of Luck That While Attempting
To Pick-Up Something That Symbolizes A Good
Luck Charm ]
[ The Object Itself Would Do Me Harm ]
[ What Could Happen Next? ]
[ Getting A (DEAR JOHN LETTER) Through A Text? ]
[ I Could Find A Field Of Four Leaf Clovers ]
[ & Go & Pick One ]
[ I Would Turn It Over ]
[ & Then Feel Numb ]
[ As I Run For Cover ]
[ I Feel Dumb ]
[ Because When I Look Down @ My Hand ]
[ I See That It Is The Color Of A Ripe Plum ]
[ This Goes To Show My Opinion On Luck For Me Is
Correct ]
[ Some Find The Impersonal Way ]
[ Impossible For Me To Connect ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1327)▪︎[ A Story To Tell … 11•19•2019 ]
[ I’ve Found That Through The Years That Everyone Has
A Story That They Don’t Like To Read Out Loud ]
[ Some Are Too Shy To Talk ]
[ Others Just Don’t Want To Address It To A Crowd ]
[ To Some It’s Too Personal To Say ]
[ Others Don’t Want To Talk About It That Day ]
[ Some Stories Are Tragic ]
[ Others Are Full Of Alot Of Magic ]
[ Not All Stories Are Full Of Heartbreak & Sadness ]
[ Some Are Full Of Happiness ]
[ Not Madness ]
[ Not Everyone Has The Patience To Listen With Open
Ears ]
[ Very Few Takes To Heart, Everything That They Hear ]
[ People Need To Use A Clear & Resounding Voice ]
[ To Get Their Point Across ]
[ Because If Given The Choice ]
[ Most People Will Claim That They Are Lost ]
[ Lost On The Path Of Life ]
[ Lost Because They’ve Lost Sight ]
[ Of Their Personal Guilding Light ]
[ The Light That Beams Bright In Telling You Which Way
To Go ]
[ The One That You See In The Night ]
[ The One That Constantly Glows ]
[ Bright Like A Constant Beam ]
[ So Bright It Seems ]
[ Like You’re In A Dream ]
[ State ]
[ But Knowing That You’re Fully Awake ]
[ How Do You Honestly Listen To Someone Who Is
Pouring Out Their Soul To You? ]
[ Do You Listen @ Full Attention? ]
[ Or Show Disdain & Ridicule? ]
[ To The Point It Makes Them Feel Blue? ]
[ How Would You Like The Tables To Be Turned? ]
[ & You Would Be The One Feeling Burned? ]
[ That Probably Wouldn’t Feel Like A Ball ]
[ Short Or Tall ]
[ That Couldn’t Feel Good @ All ]
[ So The Next Time You Don’t Want To Listen When Someone Has
A Story To Tell ]
[ Listen For The Sound Of That Little Bell ]
[ In Your Head ]
[ & Wonder How They Would Treat You ]
[ If You Were Telling Your Story Instead ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(065)▪︎[ I Need To Do Better … 1•18•2021 ]
A ][° 065 °][ I NEED TO DO BETTER … 1•18•2021 ]
[ It Seemed Like Today ]
[ I Sure Had A Whole Lot To Say ]
[ What Felt The Best ]
[ Was The Ability To Get Everything Off Of
My Chest ]
[ What Went So Well ]
[ Was That I Did Not Sit & Dwell ]
[ About Somethings ]
[ That Was Trying Its Hardest ]
[ To Send My Whole Day To Hell ]
[ So I Tried Really Hard To Stay Grounded ]
[ So My Day Rebounded ]
[ & Did Not Sink In Hotter ]
[ Water ]
[ But I Really Need To Work On Insulating Myself Better ]
[ I•N•S•U•L•A•T•I•N•G B•E•T•T•E•R Right Down To The
Last Letter! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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