[ If You Were Asked ( WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WHEN
YOU GROW UP? ) What Would You Say? ]
[ Would It Be The Type Of Job That Drives You Or Would
It Be The Pay? ]
[ Money Does Drive Some People’s Lives @ Times ]
[ Everyday They Only Push To Earn More Dimes ]
[ Grabbing All Of The Money Possible ]
[ Taking The Time To Stop To Smell The Flowers ]
[ Becomes Nearly Impossible ]
[ Some People Do Not Grow-Up By Choice ]
[ Some Lucky Few Have A Natural Singing Voice ]
[ Some Never Want To Grow Up ]
[ They Spend Their Nights Going From Club To Club ]
[ Some People Never Grow Up, But Have No Problem
Mooching Off Of Their Parents ]
[ To Pay Their Bills & Rent ]
[ Those Are The One’s That Have No Drive Or Aspirations ]
[ Not One Person Is Their Inspiration ]
[ Those Would Be The Future Homeless Transients That
Are Going To Be Sleeping On The Cities Park Benches
With Only A Blanket To Their Name ]
[ They Always Treated Life As A Game ]
[ & The Cost? ]
[ Was Really High ]
[ Everything They Owned, They Lost ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(500)▪︎[ What To Bring To The Table … 6•17•2021 ]
[ There Comes A Time In Your Life When You Have To Pull Up
Your Big-Boy Pants ]
[ There Will Be A Time & A Reason ]
[ It Would Not Be By Chance ]
[ Either ]
[ Nope, Neither ]
[ There Was A Time When You Had To Stop Acting & Being A Child ]
[ There Was A Time During Your Twenties ]
[ When You Had To Stop Going Out To The Clubs Getting Drunk
& Acting Wild ]
[ It Is Not Like You Have Stopped Living ]
[ You Will Find That What Is Fun ]
[ Is When You Are Able To Bring People Together & Enjoy Gift
Giving ]
[ Giving Is The Best Thing ]
[ The Worst Feeling ]
[ Is When You Catch Someone Stealing ]
[ You Hope To See People As They Really Are ]
[ You Don’t Get Impressed When They Drive Up In An Expensive
Car ]
[ It Would Be Nice If People Would Take Each Other @ Their
Word ]
[ Sometimes It Is A Nice Thought That Later In Life You Would Be
Able To Travel The World ]
[ Trust In & From Others Is A Very Important Thing ]
[ When People Are Trusting That Is A Wonderful Quality
To Bring ]
[ To The Table When You Meet Someone New ]
[ The Most Important Trait To Come With ]
[ Is The Ability To Just Be You ]
[ Not Someone Older ]
[ Not Someone With Bigger Shoulders ]
[ The Biggest Gift ]
[ Is When You Can Give All Of Yourself ]
[ Without Causing A Rift ]
[ Things Are Good ]
[ When You Are Understood ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(498)▪︎[ The Binds That Bond … 6•17•2021 ]
[ Are You Proud Of Yourself When You Look @ Yourself
In The Mirror @ Night ]
[ Do You Accept What You See? ]
[ Or Are You Angry @ The Sight? ]
[ Sometimes You Do Not Like The Reflection ]
[ But You Have Come To Find ]
[ That You Are Pretty Good When It Comes To Deflection ]
[ Why Don’t You Like What You See? ]
[ Sometimes You Are An Animated Show ]
[ & I Can Eat Popcorn, While I Watch Everything Up Close
For Free ]
[ Clearly Two Shows Are Never The Same ]
[ If They Were ]
[ I Would Know That She Was Playing A Game ]
[ Games Do Have Their Time & Place ]
[ Sometimes When You Do Play Games ]
[ I Will Tell You To Stop, Right To Your Face ]
[ I Do Not Have A Problem Standing Up To You ]
[ That Is Nothing New ]
[ We Have That Kind Of Relationship ]
[ Because We Have That Honest & Open Friendship ]
[ That Is The Bond ]
[ That Is What Keeps Us Going On ]
[ There Is Nothing Wrong ]
[ With Not Always Being Strong ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(497)▪︎[ Your Brother Is Gone … 6•16•2021 ]
[ As You Sit There Looking @ Your Brothers Tombstone ]
[ You Now Feel, All Alone ]
[ Some Say It Was A Senseless Death That Day ]
[ Is That Really What Some People Say? ]
[ I Am On The Fence ]
[ Is There A Way That your Brother Could Die That Would Make
Sense? ]
[ You Hear Mumbles ]
[ & Grumbles ]
[ You’re Not So Dense ]
[ To Hear That ]
[ & It Not Make You Tense ]
[ This May Sound Dumb ]
[ But Death Took Away My Brother’s Freedom ]
[ He Can No Longer Come Over For A Visit ]
[ You Can’t Have The Option To Go Over To His House & Just
Sit ]
[ For A Bit ]
[ Your Brother Is Pain Free Now ]
[ You Wish That You Could ]
[ But You Don’t Know How ]
[ How Do You Continue On ]
[ Now That Your Brother Is Gone? ]
[ Nobody Knows What Went Wrong ]
[ Was His Will To Live, Not Very Strong? ]
[ When His Path Was Shown ]
[ Was The Writing On The Wall Known? ]
[ The Grim Reaper Does Not Show Up @ Your Doorstep To
Talk ]
[ They Show Up To Take You On That Long, Quiet Walk ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1153)▪︎[ Anger … 12•30•2020 ]
[ Anger Seems To Be Directly Part Of My Life ]
[ Be It @ Me ]
[ Or From Me ]
[ Affecting My Son Or My Wife ]
[ Names Can Be Called Or Felt ]
[ It Can Feel Like ]
[ The Tightening Of A Belt ]
[ Either Way, It Hurts ]
[ Easy To Feel & Give ]
[ As If It Is Pulling Off My Shirt ]
[ Anger Can Tear Couples & Families Apart ]
[ Some Angry Comments ]
[ Are Meant To Pierce The Heart ]
[ Or Are They Meant? ]
[ To Stay In The Head ]
[ Instead? ]
[ Either Reason Or Way ]
[ Piercing Words ]
[ Find A Way To Stay ]
[ & Be Heard ]
[ Ping Ponging Back & Forth ]
[ Heading South ]
[ Then Heading North ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1149)▪︎[ Set Adrift … 12•27•2020 ]
[ You Were Once Again ]
[ In A Sailboat Set Adrift ]
[ With No Wind ]
[ Floating Aimlessly In No Particular Direction ]
[ Or No Plan ]
[ Finding That You Need To Make Several Corrections ]
[ If You Want To Be An Upstanding Man ]
[ Who Should You Go To For Advice? ]
[ Having A Supportive Father ]
[ Would Have Been Nice ]
[ But While He Was Alive, He Never Bothered ]
[ Maybe He Thought That You Were A Troubled Soul ]
[ But You Always Thought ]
[ That He Did A Horrible Job Faking Through His Years Playing
The Father Role ]
[ You Learned More From The Father Of A Family Down
The Street On The Corner ]
[ He Taught You About Sports, Law & Order ]
[ But That Was Then ]
[ Being On Your Own Now ]
[ This Is How It’s Been ]
[ You Have To Figure Out The ( HOW? ) ]
[ Now You Feel That Your Best Friend Can See ]
[ How You Can Be ]
[ The Best Of Me ]
[ She Set You On The Path On How To Get The Best &
Be The Best Man In This House ]
[ & Be The Strong Father For Your Son ]
[ & Be The Strong Husband For Your Spouse ]
[ But This Has Been A Long Time Coming ]
[ I Just Never Listened To The Right Drumming ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1154)▪︎[ Listen Closely, Please … 12•30•2020 ]
[ Things Are The Same, But It’s Just A Different Day ]
[ Words Are Politely Said ]
[ But You Treat Me The Exact Same Way ]
[ Sometimes Worse Than The Day Before ]
[ As Each Day Goes By ]
[ It Seems Like You Hate Me Even More ]
[ Where Do You Get This Hate From? ]
[ Then When Others Ask Me ( HOW COME … ) ]
[ ( YOU FEEL & ACT SO NUMB? ) ]
[ I Feel That Way As A Self-Protective Attitude ]
[ It Is Not To Be Rude ]
[ It Is Just A Protective Change In My Mood ]
[ To Protect My Psyche & My Hurt Heart ]
[ I Have Gotten So Tired ]
[ With The Comments From You That Seem To Be Your Attempts
To Tear This Family Apart ]
[ Do I Have Some Blame In This? ]
[ I’d Say ( YES ) ]
[ Fixing This, Makes It Be One Of The Top Priorities On The Top Of
My List ]
[ My Way Of Engaging You, Is To Not Engage You @ All ]
[ Because, Our Past Arguments ]
[ Used To Drive Me Up The Wall ]
[ I Just Choose, Not To Do That Anymore ]
[ That Is One Of The Many Reasons ]
[ That You Are Being Shown The Front Door ]
[ Kicking You Out, Or Pushing You Out, You Can Call It Whatever
You Want ]
[ I Am Not Using This Story As A Final Taunt ]
[ This Is One Thing That I Am Extremely Tired Of ]
[ This Is Not Something That I Am Doing ]
[ Because There Is Now, A Lack Of Love ]
[ I Would Kind Of Look @ It As, It’s Because I Care ]
[ I Really Want To See ]
[ That We Have Any Kind Of Relationship To Salvage There ]
[ Or There Will Be ]
[ Anything Left To Share ]
[ Does Any Of This Make You Tense? ]
[ I Just Don’t Want You To Straddle The Fence ]
[ As If This Does, Or Does Not Make Sense ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1148)▪︎[ No Art … 12•26•2020 ]
[ You Have Found That You Are Not Very Creative ]
[ Even Though Your Imagination ]
[ Is Very Active ]
[ Relative As In You Are Not Into Art ]
[ Maybe Because ]
[ You Like Your Paintings Alacarte ]
[ You ARE Sure ]
[ That You Don’t Have Any Hidden Meanings ]
[ In Any Picture ]
[ You Don’t Like To Wait ]
[ To See An Assortment Of Paints ]
[ Used To Make A Picture Resembling ]
[ What You Just Ate ]
[ You Can Never Find The Meanings Of Hundred’s Of Dots ]
[ Because They Just Look Like A Bunch Of Spots ]
[ Spots That Do Not Make Any Kind ]
[ Of Design, In Your Mind ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1147)▪︎[ A Useless Effort … 12•26•2020 ]
[ Validation Is Almost An Impossible Thing To
Seek ]
[ You Think That Most Of The Time You Come To Have
Some Regrets After You Speak ]
[ No One Acknowledges What You Say ]
[ All Through The Night ]
[ & All Throughout The Day ]
[ You Do Not Understand Why You Are So Ignored ]
[ When You Say Something ]
[ Do You Make Others That Bored? ]
[ It Is Always Other People’s Choice ]
[ That They Won’t Respond To Your Voice ]
[ But Then Frustration Ping Pongs Around In Your Head ]
[ When She Says Your Words Back, Verbatim, What You Just Said ]
[ You Wish That She Had Never Heard ]
[ A Single Word ]
[ Then Others Could Use ]
[ That Excuse ]
[ So You Guess You Will Sit There & Smile ]
[ & Continue To Take The Abuse ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1141)▪︎[ Your Voice … 12•25•2020 ]
[ There Are Times, When My Choice ]
[ Is To Use My Voice ]
[ But When I Do ]
[ I Don’t Say Things, Just To Make Noise ]
[ I Say Things, From My Heart ]
[ But If You Are Not Very Receptive ]
[ Then I Should Not Even Start ]
[ I Would Not Be Very Receptive ]
[ If All You Chose To Do, Is Rip Me Apart ]
[ Sometimes, When I See The Fire In Your Eyes ]
[ I Wonder If That Look Is For Me ]
[ Or For Some Other Guys ]
[ Because Sometimes I Can’t See ]
[ Through All Of The Lies ]
[ Of Course Those Are The Ones, That I Do Not Know About ]
[ Those Are From The Times, When You Go Out ]
[ Why Is It Not The Same Anymore? ]
[ Why Are You Constantly Closing The Door ]
[ Because Now It Seems ]
[ That You Don’t Know, What You Are Looking For ]
[ Leaving Me @ Home Thinking ]
[ About Drinking ]
[ So Much, I Would Have Trouble Breathing ]
[ That Would Be So Counter-Productive To My Goals In Life ]
[ It Would Be Like Turning Out The Light ]
[ That Connects Our Souls To Each Other ]
[ The Connection That We Have Had ]
[ Before The Times Got Tougher ]
[ & You Were Always Mad ]
[ Now It Seems Like I Am Not The One That Makes You Smile ]
[ The Only Times That You Do ]
[ Is When You Come Home After Being Gone For Awhile ]
[ That Means That Something Is Very Wrong ]
[ If You Only Smile, After You Come Home After Being Gone ]
[ We Need To Get To The Bottom Of This ]
[ Before All Of This, Causes Us To Split ]
[ Because If You Are Knowing ]
[ Where This Is Going ]
[ I Will Just Cut Bait & Walk ]
[ Instead Of Wasting My Time ]
[ Because When It Comes To This Subject ]
[ You Refuse To Talk ]
[ & Then, This Shows Zero Respect ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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