[ Someone Once Said (THAT TRUE FOCUS LIES SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
RAGE & SERENITY) ]
[ Does That Mean That Most Of Our Lives Are Spent Fighting Off Insanity? ]
[ & Vanity? ]
[ Are More People Living Their Life Bordering On Being Vain? ]
[ Or From Going Insane? ]
[ Why Fight It? ]
[ Why Not See Delight In It While You’re Down In The Pits? ]
[ & When It All Hits The Fan ]
[ Collect All Of Your Wits & Do What You Can ]
[ What One Person Considers Serenity Others May Not ]
[ It Just May ]
[ Put Them In That Spot ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(040)▪︎[ A Square Peg … 1•10•2020 ]
[ You Are A Square Peg, Surrounded By Round Holes ]
[ When You & Your Friends Look Around ]
[ You Start Questioning Your Roles ]
[ In The Bigger Scheme Of Things ]
[ What Will The Future Bring? ]
[ More Round Holes Where You Don’t Fit? ]
[ You Can’t Even Get In There A Little Bit ]
[ Can You Put In @ Least A Leg ]
[ Are There Legs On A Peg? ]
[ What Happened To All Of The Holes That Were Square ]
[ This Whole Thing Caught You Unaware ]
[ Should You Ask? ]
[ Do You Dare? ]
[ What If You Do That Task? ]
[ & Nobody Cared? ]
[ Would The Feeling Last ]
[ Would It Help You Get Passed Your Past? ]
[ Okay, If It Does ]
[ How Fast? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(042)▪︎[ The Crown … 1•11•2020 ]
[ Sometimes Life Gets Hard ]
[ & Things Happen That Didn’t Originally Seem Like They
Were In The Cards ]
[ The Ice Doesn’t Melt ]
[ When You Have To Deal With The Cards That You’ve Been Dealt ]
[ So Always Keep In Mind ]
[ That You Will Be Able To Keep Things In Line ]
[ Uneasy Is The Head That Wears The Crown ]
[ But Just Don’t Take It Off ]
[ & Put It Down ]
[ For Be Fearful That The Power Will No Longer Be ]
[ There For You To Call Upon ]
[ Because If You Don’t See ]
[ Or Watch Out ]
[ The Magical Feelings Will Be Gone ]
[ Where Would They Go? ]
[ Maybe You Should Find Somebody Who Would
Know ]
[ That Would Be Nice ]
[ I Hope They Have Ice ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(048)▪︎[ The Ocean Just Takes … 1•13•2020 ]
[ The Ocean Rarely Relinquishes What It Takes ]
[ Sometimes Widows Are What It Makes ]
[ When You Turn Your Back On The King Tide ]
[ It Will Take Your Feet Out From Under You ]
[ & Then Take You For A Ride ]
[ Whoever Told You That The Ocean Is Harmless ]
[ Looked You Straight In The Eyes & Lied ]
[ Another Victim, Another Day ]
[ Be Naive About The Power Of The Ocean ]
[ & It Could Sweep You Away ]
[ @ Times The Water Is So Calm & Low ]
[ You Say ]
[ Hiding With The Next Wave Is An Undertow ]
[ That Might Be Today ]
[ You Don’t See The Undertow, Until It Grabs You By The Feet ]
[ Before You Know It, You’re Knocked Down On To Your Seat ]
[ Swim Hard Against It ]
[ Before You Give In To Defeat ]
[ Today Two Children Lost Their Lives After Being Taken From
Their Father’s Arms ]
[ Oh The Water Is So Calm & Shallow ]
[ Playing In The Waves Will Bring No Harm ]
[ A Sneaker Wave Came Out Of The Blue ]
[ It Almost Had Three Lives ]
[ But Then Settled On Two ]
[ The Father Was Saved But The Son & Daughter Wasn’t ]
[ In Regular Water The Body’s Would Be Given Back ]
[ But The Ocean Doesn’t ]
[ The Ocean Waves Could Be Called A Thief ]
[ By Stealing Two Children’s Lives ]
[ & Creating A Lifetime Of Grief ]
[ That Some ]
[ Families ]
[ Never Recover From ]
[ The Father Will Probably Forever Be Numb ]
[ Oh, The Water Is Calm ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(171)▪︎[ Whatever Happens … Happens … 2•25•2021 ]
[ You Guessed That People Really Do Come & Go ]
[ In Your Life ]
[ & They May Go Slow ]
[ In The Night ]
[ Or They May Go Fast ]
[ During The Day ]
[ You Guessed Not Everything Lasts ]
[ As You Watch Another Person Drift Away ]
[ All Because Of Something That You Text ]
[ That Sounded Too Complex? ]
[ You Guessed We Both Had Too Thin Of Skin On That
Text Exchange ]
[ Does That Mean Things Need To Change? ]
[ You Really Don’t Know About That One Act ]
[ All You Are Going On, Is How You See Her React ]
[ & That Was Not Good ]
[ Or Were Your Words ]
[ Completely Misunderstood? ]
[ You Think That They Were ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(097)▪︎[ Just An Ordinary Day … 1•29•2021 ]
[ You Are Just Sitting There In The Dark ]
[ With Nothing, But Your Thoughts ]
[ Wondering If Your Life Is In Neutral Or In Park ]
[ You Seem To Be Running Uphill On A Treadmill, Not Getting
Anywhere ]
[ The Main Problem With This, Is That You Have Lost The Desire
To Care ]
[ As You Sit There, You Do Not Hear A Thing ]
[ So You Watch The Phone ]
[ & Hope, That It Would Ring ]
[ Minutes Drag By, Then They Turn Into Hours ]
[ Everytime You Think Things Are Going Well ]
[ It Turns Upside Down & Sours ]
[ Those That You Thought Were Friends Seem To Jump Ship When
The Waters Get Rough ]
[ You Would Always Listen To Their Problems When Their Lives
Got Tough ]
[ But You Never Thought That They Would Turn Their Back ]
[ It Feels Like Whenever You Spoke Up ]
[ Your Face Got Smacked ]
[ You Always Turned The Other Cheek ]
[ But You Never Corrected The Facts, Whenever They Would Speak ]
[ You Never Put Them On The Spot ]
[ Because They Were Wrong Alot ]
[ One Thing That You Have Come To Realize ]
[ In Your 58 Years ]
[ Is That People Come & Go Throughout All Of Our Lives ]
[ Like Two Ships Passing Each Other On A Very Dark Night ]
[ You Are In Their Thoughts ]
[ Until You Are No Longer In Their Sight ]
[ But This All Goes Full Circle As You Sit Here Alone ]
[ The Silence Gives Off Its Own Peculiar Tone ]
[ & It Has Been Shown ]
[ That It Always Sends A Chill Down To Your Bones ]
[ Do You Have To Turn Around & See What You Don’t See ]
[ & Come To Realize This Is How Your Life, Is Going To Be ]
[ You Could Bet After You Slowly Count, From 1 To 3 ]
[ You Could Look Around & It Would Still Be … ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1433)▪︎[ It’s Not As It Seems … 12•26•2019 ]
[ He Says He’s Smiling Inside ]
[ But Don’t Let That Fool You ]
[ His Insides Had Died ]
[ In Year Number Two ]
[ How Could He Just Sit & Smile When He’s In So Much Pain? ]
[ There He Is, Going Through The Motions Everyday ]
[ With Nothing To Gain ]
[ Smiling Again & Again ]
[ Is That Committing A Sin? ]
[ Who Loses? ]
[ Who Wins? ]
[ As Good As It Is To Lie ]
[ It Must Have Been Done ]
[ By The Other Guy ]
[ But Why Do They Make A Joke ]
[ About Going Up To That Old Man ]
[ & Giving Him A Poke? ]
[ Poking Another ]
[ Should Not Be A Laughing Matter ]
[ To Someone Else’s Brother ]
[ Your Comments Does Not Bring Any Laughter ]
[ It Is A Bit Unrealistic ]
[ To Say People Are Helping ]
[ When They Are So Antagonistic ]
[ But Where In Life Is The Finish Line? ]
[ Is It Anywhere Close ]
[ To When You Go Dakine? ]
[ So Many People Leave Life As An Unfinished Project ]
[ When They Started Out As Such A Good Prospect ]
[ Some May Have A Mid-Life Crisis & Never Bounce Back ]
[ Is That Because They Are In Hiding ]
[ From A Blind Sided Attack? ]
[ When You Finally Have The Answers In Life ]
[ Someone Changes The Questions ]
[ Given To Them By Their Wife ]
[ The Moral Of This Story ]
[ If You Go Through Life Looking For Glory ]
[ Glory Is What You Make ]
[ When You’re In A Giving Mood ]
[ Instead Of Being In The Mood To Take ]
[ Or Being Rude ]
[ & Nobody Needs A Fake ]
[ Attitude ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(023)▪︎[ The Moon … 1•6•2020 ]
[ Why Does The Moon Seem So Lonely? ]
[ Because Mother Nature Raises The Sun As Hers, Only ]
[ When The Moon Reaches It’s Highest Point ]
[ Everybody Has Vacated Every Joint ]
[ Most People Are Tucked Away In Their Bed ]
[ Some Are Comatose After Taking Their Sleeping Med ]
[ When The Moon Comes Out Most People & Creatures
Are Down For The Night ]
[ It Is Usually So Dark ]
[ The Moon Has To Makes It’s Own Light ]
[ Nobody Stays Up To Watch The Moon Set ]
[ The Moon Never Forgets ]
[ That Everyone Loves The Sun ]
[ When It’s Up ]
[ People Come Out To Have Fun ]
[ During The Times When The Moon Is Full ]
[ & The Nights Activities Are Dull ]
[ The Windless Air ]
[ Has Nothing To Compare ]
[ No Where To Go ]
[ Just Drifting Really Slow ]
[ Across The Sky ]
[ Not To Really Be Seen ]
[ By The Naked Eye ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(024)▪︎[ A Story To Tell … 1•6•2020 ]
[ Everybody Has A Story To Tell ]
[ If You Listen To Enough Of Them ]
[ You Can See How Some People Fell ]
[ Most People Want To Grow Up & Do Great Things ]
[ But Sometimes Expectations Are Attached By Strings ]
[ Strings For Other People To Pull ]
[ Sometimes Those Expectations Makes Some Look
Like Fools ]
[ Some Have The Expectations Of Getting Paid For What
Ordinary People Do ]
[ Then If They Are Not Appeased, They Sue ]
[ Get Money The Easy Way ]
[ Sue Somebody So You Can Have A Big Payday ]
[ Money That’s Not Earned ]
[ Sometimes When You Have Expectations ]
[ You Get Burned ]
[ So What Is Your Story? ]
[ Let’s Hear It ]
[ Are Parts Too Gory? ]
[ To Even Tell Just A Little Bit? ]
[ So How Do You Get The Story Out There? ]
[ If You Don’t Want To Share ]
[ Then I Don’t Have To Care ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(331)▪︎[ Unreliable People Do Not Care … 4•21•2021 ]
[ Can You Say That Some People Are Very Unreliable? ]
[ Not Even Plyable? ]
[ When You Think That You Should Be Able To Count On
Someone, You Won’t ]
[ When You Think That That They Will Come Through For You …
They Don’t ]
[ Trust Is A Huge Thing In Every Day Life ]
[ There Are Some People Out There That Just Don’t Think Right ]
[ More So Left Of Center ]
[ When They See An ( EXIT ) Sign ]
[ That Is Where They Enter ]
[ They Are Even Really Slow ]
[ When They See The Sign That Says (DO NOT PASS GO) ]
[ Or Collect 200 Hundred Dollars On That Spin ]
[ They Like To Adjust The Rules Because They Feel That They (NEED)
To Win ]
[ @ All Cost ]
[ Not Ever Taking Into Consideration That There Had Been
Friends That They Lost ]
[ They Probably Thought (OH WELL) ]
[ (WE ARE ALL GOING TO HELL) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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