(024)▪︎[ The Mood … 2024 ]

[ To Say That If You Are In A Somber Mood, You Would Be Minimizing Things ]
[ What Happened Last Night, Still Stings ]
[ You Wish The Whole Night Could Just Fly Away ]
[ On Magical Wings ]

[ You Do Not Know How, Why Or When It Went Off Of The Rail? ]
[ Sometimes You Wonder When Civility Set Sail? ]
[ If That Was An Attempt To Stay Civil ]
[ It Sure Did Fail ]

[ Sometimes The Worst Thing That You Do Is Be Alone With Your Thoughts ]
[ Then You Start Thinking About Them ]
[ & It Ties You Up In Knots ]

[ What A Vicious Circle You Are Leaving ]
[ You Are Not Doing Anything Worth Believing ]
[ You Are Not Relieving ]

[ Any Stress ]
[ So That Creates An Even Bigger Mess ]
[ But Then You Start To Digress ]

[ Trying To Get Through Quirk After Quirk ]
[ You Are Trying Your Hardest To Figure Out What Will Work ]

[ So Far, Not So Good ]
[ If You Think That It Should ]
[ Everything Will ]
[ Everything You Say, Seems To Be Misunderstood ]
[ Just Like You Thought That They Would ]

[ You Really Need To Get The (COULD & SHOULD) Out Of Your Mind ]
[ Start Having The Positive Kind ]
[ Of Thoughts ]
[ This Way, You Might Find ]

[ That In The (60+) Years That You Have Under Your Belt ]
[ You Have Yet To Find The Secret Where You Have Felt ]
[ That Your Problems Will Become Like The Snow Outside & Melt ]

[ Is There Such A Secret ]
[ That You Have Not Yet ]
[ Met? ]

[ There Is Nothing Out There That Has Been Found ]
[ That The Fountain Of Youth Is Under That Mound ]
[ Of Ground ]

[ If There Is, Could You Please Raise Your Right Hand ]
[ When Given The Command? ]
[ You Feel That If You Do Not Come Up With An Answer ]
[ You Will Be Forever Damned ]

[ What Would Be The Difference Between That & This? ]
[ Take A Look All Around ]
[ Then Could Somebody Tell You What You Would Miss? ]

[ Is There Something? ]
[ Or Is The Answer,
(NOTHING!) ]

Mahalo
~LopakaDeVoe~

(1105)▪︎[ All Alone … 8•31•2019 ]

[ You Just Want Be Alone ]
[ You Want To Be Somewhere Secluded ]
[ Where You Couldn’t Even Be Seen By A Giant Drone ]
[ Right Now You Don’t Want To Be Included ]
[ Because Your Heart Has Turned To Stone ]

[ You Won’t Show It Because It Can Be Broken ]
[ To Make It Pump ]
[ It Takes More Than A Token ]

[ Love Is Not What It Would Take ]
[ Beware Of The Woman With The Two Headed Snake ]
[ She’ll Try To Get In With Some Cookies She Baked ]
[ This Will Need Something Better Than A Chocolate Cake ]

[ Is Love Given Only Because It Is A Token Of
Someone’s Gratitude? ]
[ Was It Given With A Loving Attitude? ]
[ We’re They Rude? ]
[ You Could Say You Love A Person & Not Mean A
Thing ]
[ What Positive Feelings Saying (I LOVE YOU) Bring? ]
[ Does That Always Bring Two People Together? ]
[ No Matter The Weather? ]

[ Rain, Snow, Sleet Or Baking Sun ]
[ Staying Inside Is Not Always Fun ]
[ Run Forrest, Run ]
[ When Does A Couple Turn Towards Each Other & Say ]
[ (I THINK WE’re DONE) ]

[ Or Do They Keep Plugging Along To See Where
False Love Can Take Them? ]
[ Does It Take Them To Southrrn California? ]
[ Or North Salem? ]
[ Given The Examples Of Man ]
[ They’re Not Really A Big Fan ]

[ Love Comes ]
[ & Love Goes ]
[ @ Times It Makes You Do Something Dumb ]
[ Why, How Or When ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ But It Will Happen Again ]
[ Just Wait For The Shows ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(022)▪︎[ Pain … 1•6•2022 ]

[ Some Say That Solace Must Be Discovered ]
[ If You Lose It, Can It Be Recovered? ]

[ Sometimes Loneliness Can Zap Your Powers ]
[ You Can’t Wash Lonely Off In The Showers ]

[ It Would Be Nice If It Was Tangible & You Could Wash It
     Off Of Your Back, Like Dirt ]
[ The Same Goes For Hurt ]

[ Both Of Those Are A Feeling ]
[ Both Of Those Could Send You Reeling ]

[ There Are Different Ways Of Getting Or Being Lonely In Life ]
[ The Worst Way ]
[ Would Be Losing Your Husband Or Wife ]

[ That Would Then Give You The Hurt That You Would Never
     Have Dreamed Of ]
[ All Because You Lost The One Person Who Was Supposed
     To Be YOUR Lifetime Love ]

[ That Kind Of Hurt Gives All Kinds Of Pain ]
[ That Kind Never Wanes ]

[ That Kind Of Pain You Can Not Wash Off ]
[ There Is More Pain When You Feel Totally Lost ]

[ Pain Is Pain ]
[ It Is What Everyone Disdains ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1070)▪︎[ Socks Needed … 12•25•2021 ]

[ Whenever You Reach Out, Is There Always Someone There? ]
[ Are They There For Kicks & Giggles? ]
[ Or Is It Because They Care? ]

[ It Is Tough, To Remain Empty Handed ]
[ Because Helping You, Has Never Been Demanded ]

[ Sometimes, You Go About Life All Alone ]
[ You Turn On Your Phone ]
[ & Get Nothing, But The Dial Tone ]

[ It Is Hard To Look @ Your Message Emoji ]
[ There Is Never, A Number To See ]

[ You Are On A Solitary Path ]
[ Just Like Doing Your Problems, In Math ]

[ You Think Things, Through In Your Head ]
[ You Always Retain, What You Just Read ]

[ You Do Your Walking, Mostly @ Night ]
[ The Moon & Stars, Make Quite The Sight ]

[ Where You Go, Is Not Planned ]
[ There Are No Timed, Demands ]

[ You Seek Shelter, When It Rains Or It Is Too Hot ]
[ To Walk ]

[ You Eat, When You Are Able ]
[ Sometimes, Kind Hearted People Invite You To Eat With Them ]
[ @ Their Table ]

[ Those Are The Ones ]
[ That You Steal Everything From ]

[ You Tie Everybody Up, After You All Eat ]
[ You Throw Their Shoes Out The Back Door ]
[ So They Would Be Left, With Bare Feet ]

[ When You Find A Bigger Backpack Than Yours ]
[ So Then You Will Leave Your Old One By The Garage Doors ]

[ When You Say Everything, Well This Might Come Across
Quite Odd ]
[ The Only Things That You Steal, Are The Men’s Socks ]

[ Having Dry, Clean Socks Is A Must ]
[ You Feel Kind Of Bad, To All Of The Ones Who You Gave
False-Trust ]

[ Not Too Many People Go To The Police To Report This Kind
Of Theft ]
[ You Always Make Sure There Was (2) Or (3) Pairs Of Socks Left ]

[ If They Only Had (5), You Would Leave (2) ]
[ You Always Thought That Was The Polite Thing To Do ]

[ You Made Sure That The Family Has Been Comfortable Where
They Were @ ]
[ Maybe A Pillow Where They Sat ]

[ One Thing You Loved To Do Was Stop In People’s Houses &
Take Long Showers ]
[ You Always Made Sure The Dog Had Fresh Water & Food To
Eat For The Next Couple Of Hours ]

[ You Made The Time To Do Your Dirty Laundry & Your Shoes ]
[ You Go Your List Of Don’ts & Do’s ]

[ On Your Way Out, You Apologize For The Bad Situation You
Put The Family In ]
[ Then You Ask Them (1) Question ]
[ (WILL YOU EVER LET THIS HAPPEN, AGAIN?) ]

[ You Hope Not ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1105)▪︎[ All Alone … 8•31•2019 ]

[ You Just Want Be Alone ]
[ You Want To Be Somewhere Secluded ]
[ Where You Couldn’t Even Be Seen By A Giant Drone ]
[ Right Now You Don’t Want To Be Included ]
[ Because Your Heart Has Turned To Stone ]

[ You Won’t Show It Because It Can Be Broken ]
[ To Make It Pump ]
[ It Takes More Than A Token ]

[ Love Is Not What It Would Take ]
[ Beware Of The Woman With The Two Headed Snake ]
[ She’ll Try To Get In With Some Cookies She Baked ]
[ This Will Need Something Better Than A Chocolate Cake ]

[ Is Love Given Only Because It Is A Token Of
Someone’s Gratitude? ]
[ Was It Given With A Loving Attitude? ]
[ We’re They Rude? ]

[ You Could Say You Love A Person & Not Mean A
Thing ]
[ What Positive Feelings Saying (I LOVE YOU) Bring? ]

[ Does That Always Bring Two People Together? ]
[ No Matter The Weather? ]

[ Rain, Snow, Sleet Or Baking Sun ]
[ Staying Inside Is Not Always Fun ]
[ Run Forrest, Run ]
[ When Does A Couple Turn Towards Each Other & Say ]
[ (I THINK WE’re DONE) ]

[ Or Do They Keep Plugging Along To See Where
False Love Can Take Them? ]
[ Does It Take Them To Southern California? ]
[ Or North Salem? ]

[ Given The Examples Of A Man ]
[ They’re Not Really A Big Fan ]

[ Love Comes ]
[ & Love Goes ]
[ @ Times It Makes You Do Something Dumb ]
[ Why, How Or When ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ But It Will Happen Again ]
[ Just Wait For The Shows ]

~ 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 ]

(766)▪︎[ Stop To Smell The … ? … 9•10•2021 ]

[ Are You That (1) Sheep That Always Gets Lost? ]
[ @ The Highest Cost? ]

[ Are You The One That Is Always So Sick ]
[ & Plays Russian Roulette ]
[ With A Semiautomatic? ]

[ Instead Of Involving ]
[ A Gun That Keeps Revolving? ]

[ What Is It About That Game ]
[ That Is Never The Same? ]
[ Who Wins? ]
[ Then, Who Is To Blame? ]

[ The Lost Sheep Does Not Follow ]
[ A Single Soul ]
[ He Is Not Defined, By Any Social Role ]
[ Or Was Counted, In Any Census Poll ]

[ The Lost Sheep Keeps Meeting People Who Are So Shallow ]
[ He Feels The Words That He Hears, Sound Hollow ]

[ Nobody Has Any Depth To Their Words ]
[ Especially After Everything That Has Occurred ]

[ There Seems To Be So Many Clowns Walking The Street ]
[ So Many Wrong People That He Has To Meet ]

[ In His Lifetime ]
[ Before He Can Meet The Lemon ]
[ That Goes With His Lime ]
[ He Wants To Meet, Someone ]
[ Who Makes The Nights, Sublime ]

[ Not Any Of These (YES PEOPLE) That He Sees On The
Sidewalks ]
[ Who Wants To Have These Monotonous Talks ]

[ They Want To Have (BRUNCH) ]
[ Instead Of Having An Ordinary Lunch ]

[ Whatever Is In Style ]
[ … For Awhile ]

[ The Lost Sheep Has No Shelter ]
[ He Gets Tired Of Reading About Manson’s Dream Of Helter
Skelter ]

[ He Was Whackier Than The Lost Sheep Was Lonely ]
[ If Only ]

[ Someone Was Always On The Other End Of The Phone ]
[ When He Only Hears The Dial Tone ]
[ It Makes Him Feel More Alone ]

[ He Could Run Back & Join The Flock ]
[ & Then Aimlessly Walk ]

[ From Field To Field ]
[ Not Even Trying To Yield ]

[ To Stop & Smell The Flowers ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(745)▪︎[ A Shiny Dime … 9•3•2021 ]

[ The Phone Rings, But All That You Hear Is A Dial Tone ]
[ That Makes You Feel So Much More Alone ]

[ No Music Or Voice ]
[ Not Any Type Of Noise ]

[ That Keeps Happening Throughout The Day ]
[ You Are Trying To Find Someplace To Lift Your Spirits ]
[ But You Cannot Find The Way ]

[ You Feel Lost & Your House Seems So Large & Vacant ]
[ Oh How You Wish You Could Get On The Phone ]
[ & Have Someone Come Over In An Instant ]

[ People Have Moved All Around The State ]
[ Maybe You Feel That This Was Fate ]

[ Or Maybe Karma Catching Up To You Because Of Your
Raucous Childhood ]
[ When You Always Thought That You Were Vastly
Misunderstood ]

[ You Tried To Buck Against The System Every Chance You
Got ]
[ Everytime, That You Were Put On The Spot ]

[ So Now You Spend Your Nights Making Wishes On
Falling Stars ]
[ You Have Never Taken A Drink When You Were By Yourself ]
[ & You Do Not Want To Hit The Bars ]

[ The Last Drink You Took Was Over 25 Years Ago ]
[ Alot Of People, Through The Years Had Tried To Entice You ]
[ But The Answer Was Always A Simple (NO) ]

[ Getting Drunk Was Never Your Thing ]
[ In Your World ]
[ Alcohol Was Not Your King ]

[ The Silence Gets Loud @ Night ]
[ Especially When The Darkness Takes Your Sight ]

[ Your Hearing Takes The Place Of Your Eyes ]
[ Your Head Remembers All Of The Lies ]

[ How Do You Replace The Silence With Conversation? ]
[ Whenever You Meet Someone New ]
[ You Have Your Reservations ]

[ Your Guard Is Always Up @ First ]
[ & A Simple Taste Of Water Will Quench Your Thirst ]

[ You Fill Your Days Up By Taking Long Walks ]
[ & Silent Talks ]

[ You Feel That You Can Feel & Hear Your Heartbeat @
The Same Time ]
[ It Was A Good Walk Yesterday, Because You Found A
Shiny Dime ]

[ Oh, To Want So Much ]
[ Then You Receive So Little ]
[ Of The Human Touch ]

[ You Have So Much To Give ]
[ In The Manner Of Which You Live ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(540)▪︎[ Lies … 7•3•2021 ]

[ When I Wake-Up & Open Up My Tired Eyes ]
[ I Will Wonder How Many Times People Will Try To Get By Me
By Telling Their Many Lies ]

[ Why Do So Many People Have An Allergy With The Truth? ]
[ They Would Even Try To Tell You That There Are No Peanuts
In A Candy Bar Called ( BABY RUTH ) ]

[ Some People Just Lie & Lie Some More ]
[ They Would Even Lie About The Color Of A Door ]

[ That Is Until The Truth Comes Out ]
[ Then They Will Be Asked ( WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT? ) ]

[ Why? ]
[ Do People Lie? ]

[ Is It Just To One Up Another? ]
[ While Growing Up To Being An Adult ]
[ Do Most People Lie To Their Father Or Mother? ]

[ How Far Does That Get You In The Bigger Scheme ]
[ Of Things? ]

[ Not Very Far I Guess ]
[ You Don’t Always Have To Say ( YES ) ]
[ That Is The Quickest Way To Getting Yourself In A Mess ]

[ Some People Lie To Get False Bravado ]
[ Then How Far Does That Go? ]

[ Not Very Far ]
[ That Would Be Like Having ( LIQUID COURAGE ) In A Bar ]

[ Lies Can Catch Up To You Really Fast ]
[ You Need To Have A Good Memory Of What You Said Last ]

[ But Most Don’t ]
[ Will People Stick Around? ]
[ Most Won’t ]

[ Then You Are Back To Being Alone ]

~ 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 ]