[ Right Now Pain ]
[ Is Putting Up Roadblocks In My Brain ]
[ When I Want To Juke To The Right ]
[ My Brain Puts Up A Fight ]
[ When I Am Thinking That I Am In The Clear ]
[ Up Comes A Mirror ]
[ Reflecting What I Do Not Want To See ]
[ Because I Want To Think Free ]
[ Without Obstacles ]
[ Reaching Out It’s Tentacles ]
[ Like An Octopus On Crack ]
[ Always Looking Back ]
[ To Focus On What Is On Track ]
[ Blocking The Road ]
[ & Making Me Feel Old ]
[ Pain Shooting Down My Right Leg ]
[ Making Me Beg ]
[ For It All To Go Away ]
[ Maybe For A Minute, An Hour ]
[ Or A Full Day ]
[ Just Give Me Some Hope ]
[ Not Always A ( NOPE )
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(622)▪︎[ Go Get It … 7•26•2021 ]
[ Unhappy Says You ]
[ As You Search For That One Clue ]
[ That Will Make You Feel Complete ]
[ Since You Are Not On Twitter ]
[ You Know That It Cannot Be A Tweet ]
[ What Are You Looking For? ]
[ Will It Be On The Other Side Of The Door? ]
[ Maybe It Is Down The Path That Winds Through The Woods ]
[ Leading You, To More Shoulds ]
[ Or Is It More Coulds ]
[ Maybe This Is Something That Tells You To Get More Out
Of The Life That You Have Been Given ]
[ Showing You The Path Where You Need To Start Livin’ ]
[ Start Living Your Best Life By Saying ( YES PLEASE ) ]
[ To A Life That Has Been Filled With Cheese ]
[ Earlier In Your Life You Lived To Lift ]
[ Now That You Have Been Given This Gift ]
[ That Is What You Should Center Your Life Around ]
[ Not Beat It Into The Ground ]
[ You Should Experiment ]
[ See What You Can Get ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(708)▪︎[ Walk Towards What You Know … 8•23•2021 ]
[ It Doesn’t Take All Day To Recognize Sunshine ]
[ So I Always Wanted To Make Yours, Mine ]
[ You Have Been Lost ]
[ & You Have Been Found ]
[ You Cannot Believe The Cost ]
[ Since You Last Came Around ]
[ For A Start ]
[ It May Cost You Your Heart ]
[ You Found That The Starter ]
[ Was Much Harder ]
[ Because Of The Welt ]
[ That You Felt ]
[ From The Belt ]
[ Around Your Waist ]
[ But It Was Just A Taste ]
[ Of What Was To Come ]
[ Or Become ]
[ Numb ]
[ When It Gets To The Brain ]
[ It Starts The Rain ]
[ That Starts To Make You Go Nearly Insane ]
[ Because Of The Dark Cloud ]
[ That Hovers Over Your Head ]
[ Making The Silence So Loud ]
[ You Wish That You Were Dead ]
[ But Then A Woman Came Into Your Life ]
[ That Soon Became Your Wife ]
[ While You Were Seeing ]
[ The Sunshine Coming In ]
[ It Started Changing You, As A Human Being ]
[ Knowing That Neither Comments Or Stones ]
[ Will Ever Break Your Bones ]
[ Other People’s Comments Used To Break You Down ]
[ & Grind Your Heart Into The Ground ]
[ But You Try To Think About What Is Right ]
[ & Follow The Beacon Of Light ]
[ Then That Puts A Stop To The Fight ]
[ Because Words Can Hurt ]
[ & Make You Feel Like Dirt ]
[ They Can Leave A Deep Scar ]
[ & They Are All Yours ]
[ Not Ours ]
[ A Scar Is So Individual ]
[ So It Is NOT Divideable ]
[ That Is When You Look Back @ That Beacon Of Light That Found
You Many Years Ago ]
[ Walk Towards The One That You Know ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(612)▪︎[ Are We All So Different? … 7•25•2021 ]
[ Are We All So Different From One Person To The Next? ]
[ Would We All Have Different Interpretations When Reading
The Same Text? ]
[ We All Are Where We Are, By Taking Different Roads ]
[ We All Stress In Different Ways Under Different Loads ]
[ Your Eyes ]
[ Are Totally Different, When Compared To Different Guys ]
[ Personal Views Are As Different As Each One Of Our
Fingerprints ]
[ Others Might Excell On Taking Tests ]
[ But You Don’t, Even When Given Hints ]
[ Test Anxiety Is A Real Disorder For Some ]
[ If You Are Unable To Excell On Tests, That Doesn’t Mean That
You Are Dumb ]
[ When Someone Asks You To Look @ Things Through Their Eyes,
It Is An Impossible Task ]
[ You Are Always Amazed That Some People Still Ask ]
[ We All Could See The Same Thing On The Nightly News ]
[ Then We Each Would Have Our Own Individual Points Of
Views ]
[ You Did Not Get To This Same Date In The Exact Same Way As
Another Guy ]
[ You Did Not Even Stop To Say ( HI ) ]
[ Because You Wanted To Just Walk On By ]
[ Would He Tell You A Lie? ]
[ If He Was Forced To Tell You Why ]
[ The One Thing That Is So Different From One To Another ]
[ It Is The Mind ]
[ It Can Be Different Even Between Twin Brothers ]
[ But Studies Do Say That Twins Are More Of The Same Than
They Are Different ]
[ Sometimes It Also Depends On The Time Spent ]
[ Together Or Apart ]
[ Sometimes Distance Can Tug @ The Heart ]
[ As Much As We Are Different, We Are Kind Of The Same ]
[ We Have Nature To Blame ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(611)▪︎[ Getting & Hoping For Good Luck … 7•24•2021 ]
[ Is Good Luck Given Or Made? ]
[ If You Don’t Have It ]
[ Can You Find Something To Be Given For A Trade? ]
[ Can You Trade An Ex-Wife For A Day Of Luck? ]
[ If You Can’t & She Finds Out ]
[ You Better Duck ]
[ If & When ]
[ She Ever Sees You Again ]
[ Will Finding A Four Leaf Clover @ The End Of A Rainbow
Bring You A Pot Of Gold? ]
[ That Will Pay Off All Of Your Everyday Bills ]
[ While You Enjoy Growing Old ]
[ You Have The Luck Of (10) Cracked Mirrors ]
[ Destined To Have Bad Luck For @ Least The Next (70) Years ]
[ You Have Never Had Good Luck Spilling Out Of Your
Back Pocket ]
[ If You Were To Look @ The List Of Daily Events ]
[ Having Amazing Good Luck Has Never Been Written On
Any Docket ]
[ Or Pulled In By A Fishing Net ]
[ It Has Never Been Sewn Into The Inside Of Your Favorite Jacket ]
[ Everybody Knows ]
[ That Good Luck Comes & Goes ]
[ Bad Luck Or No Luck Are The Usual Ones That Stick Around ]
[ Whenever You Are Hoping For Good Luck ]
[ That Is The Kind Of Luck That Can’t Be Found ]
[ In Acting It Is Always Bad Luck To Wish Someone Good
Luck In Some Ways ]
[ If You Don’t Say ( BREAK A LEG ) You Might Not Be Talked
To For Many Days ]
[ Good Luck Cannot ]
[ Be Bought ]
[ Or Taught ]
[ Sometimes If Luck Is Going Good ]
[ You Need To Be Thankful For The Luck That You’ve Got ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(614)▪︎[ What Murder? … 7•25•2021 ]
[ To Get Away With The Perfect Murder ]
[ They Have To Jump Over A Bunch Of Hurdles ]
[ The First Thing They Must Do Is Sell Their Soul ]
[ To The Devil ]
[ To Put Them In A Hole ]
[ They Truly Believe That To Take A Soul They Must First Give
Up One ]
[ But For Some ]
[ Usually It’s One & Done ]
[ But When They Commit More ]
[ That Makes Them A Much Bigger Horror ]
[ Maybe They Are Giving Up The Souls Of Those That They Love ]
[ Then Knowing That Their Souls Would Never Go Up High
Above ]
[ No Pearly Gates For Those That They Knew ]
[ Nobody Going Up Higher Than The Sky Is Blue ]
[ They Must First Become Quite The Incredible ]
[ Believable ]
[ Liar ]
[ They Must Be Able To Keep A Straight Face While Walking
Through A Blazing Fire ]
[ Being Devoid Of Emotion, While Keeping A Straight Face ]
[ Going In & Out Of Their Place ]
[ Without Leaving Any Trace ]
[ Of Fingerprints Or DNA Evidence ]
[ Not Leaving Footprints Where They Jumped Over The Fence ]
[ They Can’t Have Any Prying Eyes ]
[ Being Able To Tell Believable Lies ]
[ Then Be Able To Console Those That Have Crying Eyes ]
[ Of Any Girls Or Guys ]
[ Being Able To Lie ]
[ While Having A Rock Solid Alibi ]
[ Is A Must ]
[ Unless They Want To Give The Police An Easy Bust ]
[ Sometimes The Saying Of ( NO BODY, NO EASY CONVICTION )
Is Spot On ]
[ One Day They Were Here ]
[ & The Next Day They Were Gone ]
[ Maybe They Can Make It Look Like An Unfortunate ]
[ Accident ]
[ Witnesses Only Benefit A Prosecutors Case ]
[ Even When Their Story Is So Far Off Base ]
[ Maybe The Perfect Murder Is The One That Was Never Committed ]
[ Then They Won’t Need To Worry About What They Omitted ]
[ But Not Admitted ]
[ From The Story They Would Have To Tell ]
[ Because There Is No Getting Back Your Soul Once It Is Headed
Towards Hell ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(623)▪︎[ Read Between The Lines … 7•26•2021 ]
[ Some Words ]
[ Are Like Birds ]
[ Some Are Only Seen & Some Are Only Heard ]
[ Do You Listen, Read Or Write? ]
[ Do You Listen In The Dark? ]
[ Then Read When You Have Light? ]
[ Some Words Have Double Or Triple Meanings For Them ]
[ @ Times That Can Cause A Problem ]
[ @ Times, People Can Get Misled ]
[ By How The Words Are Said ]
[ They Can Be In Different Languages Or Different Scripts ]
[ They Can Be Documents ]
[ Or Legal Writs ]
[ Words Can Fill Out An Essay ]
[ Or Tell Someone How Tall They Are ]
[ Or What They Weigh ]
[ They Can Be Misconstrued ]
[ Or Used To Be Downright Rude ]
[ Lewd ]
[ Or Crude ]
[ Some Words Have Hidden Meanings That Might Sound Fine ]
[ All By Itself ]
[ But When You Read Between The Lines ]
[ It Means Something Else ]
[ Something Totally Different ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(610)▪︎[ Philanthropy @ It’s Best … 7•24•2021 ]
[ ( YOU GAVE AWAY YOUR LAST PIECE OF PIZZA ) Is What You
Said ]
[ Now Being Hungry Tomorrow, Is What You Dread ]
[ It Is Not Like You Gave Away, Tomorrows Meal ]
[ But Now, You Might Know, How Hunger Will Feel ]
[ Maybe It Was, For A Good Cause ]
[ It Definitely Made The Man, That You Gave It To, Pause ]
[ He Looked Hungrier Than You’ve Ever Been ]
[ You Gave Him The Food Because Of What He Said ]
[ He Knew Someday That He Would Get A Meal Again ]
[ But He Just, Did Not Know, When ]
[ You Told Him The When, Because You Knew It Was Now ]
[ Then You Would Fend For Yourself, Somehow ]
[ You Would Go Back To Your Humble Home To See What
You Could Do ]
[ You Know With What You Have In Your Cabinets Or
Refrigerator You Could Fix Something New ]
[ But First ]
[ You Must Take Care Of Your Thirst ]
[ You Remembered That When You Were Younger ]
[ It Was Much Easier To Deal With Hunger ]
[ Back Then, You Could Always Count Of A Friend Or Two ]
[ Back Then, Like Now, Real Friends Are Few ]
[ @ Least One Friend That You Have,, Can Be Counted On To Help
You Out ]
[ This One Friend Was The One Who Gave You No Reason To
Ever Doubt ]
[ She Has Always Been There In Times Of Need ]
[ She Has Always Been There Whenever You Have Needed
Something To Eat ]
[ She Gave Like She Lived ]
[ She Has Spent Her Whole Life, Looking For Ways To Give ]
[ She Would Always Do Her Part ]
[ To Give From The Heart ]
[ She Is The One That Taught You How To Give To Those That
Have Really Needed It ]
[ & She Showed You How To Weed Through Others Piles Of
Bullshit ]
[ A Good Friend In Your Life ]
[ Beats 10 Fake Friends Holding A Knife ]
[ Always Ready To Attack ]
[ But Always & Only From The Back ]
[ That Is Why You Always Keep Your Friend Near ]
[ Either In Sight ]
[ Or By Phone, So You Can Hear ]
[ Your Friends Voice ]
[ Put A Joke In Your Ear ]
[ Only Good Folk ]
[ Are Quick With A Joke ]
[ & Contrary To Others Beliefs ]
[ She Knows What She Is Doing ]
[ When It Comes To Giving Others, Some Relief ]
[ If There Is Ever Talk Of Reimbursement ]
[ That Always Ends In A Disagreement ]
[ She Says That There Never Is An Argument To Be Made ]
[ She Never Thinks About Getting Back What She Gave ]
[ With No Regrets ]
[ She Has Said, That Is The End Of The Subject ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1152)▪︎[ Your Reflection … 9•12•2019 ]
[ Can You Look In The Mirror & Be Happy With
What It Reflects? ]
[ Do You Have To Look Closely To Find Any Defects? ]
[ What If The Total Number Is None? ]
[ Are Your Efforts Done? ]
[ Is It One For All ]
[ & All For One? ]
[ Then The Battle Is Over ]
[ & There’s No More Fun ]
[ Do You Really Know What To Look For? ]
[ Is It Hiding Behind That Door? ]
[ Has It Fallen To Your Feet? ]
[ Okay, Do You Know When You’ve Been Beat? ]
[ Ahh, This Makes Me Hungry ]
[ So Let’s Get Us Something To Eat ]
[ What Happens When You Find ]
[ What You’ve Been Looking For In Your Mind? ]
[ Will That Put You In The Mood To Rewind? ]
[ Or … ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1153)▪︎[ One Day Over & Over … 9•12•2019 ]
[ Could Others Imagine Reliving One Day Over & Over & Over Again? ]
[ Yes, You Can ]
[ & You Remember When This Merry-Go-Round Began ]
[ It Began On A Sweltering Hot Day in August 2002 ]
[ What Affects You Now, May Not Affect Others, Too ]
[ It Was A Very Muggy Day That Quickly Turned To Night ]
[ You Were A Witness To An Event ]
[ That Affected Your Hearing & Sight ]
[ The Thing That You Could Not Prevent ]
[ Was Something That Started With A Fight ]
[ It Was More Like A Beating ]
[ But One Half Of Those Combatants Used A Fire Extinguisher ]
[ & That Was Cheating ]
[ It Seemed Like There Was A Beating Every Half Hour ]
[ As You Stood In The Office ]
[ Feeling Like You Had No Power ]
[ You Didn’t Want To Just Sit ]
[ You Wanted To Go Out On The Floor ]
[ & End It ]
[ But You Were Directed To Do Nothing ]
[ Not Even Something During Those (3), Very Long Hours ]
[ No, Not A Thing ]
[ You Had To Wait ]
[ & See What The State S.W.A.T. Team Had To Bring ]
[ With Their Shouts ]
[ They Were Able To Get You Out ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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