[ When Daylight Loosens Its Golden Hold ]
[ & The Evening Whispers Stories That Are Old ]
[ Mother Nature Wastes No Time In Turning The Temperature Cold ]
[ As The Moon Ascends To Her Silver Throne ]
[ You Try To Call A Friend, On Your Phone ]
[ That’s When The Shadows Tell You That You Are Not Alone ]
[ Because You Don’t Even Hear A Dial Tone ]
[ The Stars Wake & Start To Glimmer ]
[ All You Can Hear ]
[ Is Your Inner Voice Whimper ]
[ The Clocks Start To Unwind ]
[ Right In Front Of Your Weary Eyes ]
[ Is This Meant To Play With Your Mind? ]
[ Or A Simple Ploy To Knock You Down A Size? ]
[ Your Bed Looks Like A Wayward Ship ]
[ In The Bigger Scheme Of Things ]
[ You Feel Like Just A Tiny Blip ]
[ Life Really Stings ]
[ Whenever You Feel Your Mind Slip ]
[ In Your Mind Your Ship Is Supposed To Glide ]
[ On The Ocean ]
[ That Is So Deep & Wide ]
[ You Close Your Eyes Just To Feel The Motion ]
[ But If You Wait Too Long You Might Feel That You Died ]
[ Your Eyes Close Doors To The World You Once Knew ]
[ You Wish That Someone Would Have Given You A Clue ]
[ That The Doors That Closed Would Be Quite A Few ]
[ When Quiet Miracles Are Beginning ]
[ Logic Starts Bending ]
[ & While Time Starts Thinning ]
[ Do You Think That Your World Has Begun To Head To A Anti-Climactic Ending? ]
[ You Feel That Is Something That Is Tempting ]
[ But That Is Not What You Are Attempting ]
[ Even Though You Feel Like Your Gas Tank Is Emptying ]
[ You Once Dreamed That You Were On A Winding Staircase ]
[ When You Tried To Leave En Haste ]
[ You Tripped & Fell Right On Your Face ]
[ But You Did Receive ]
[ A Rounding Applause From Every Person In The Place ]
[ You Took Your Beautiful Wife Aside ]
[ To Confide ]
[ The Only Thing That You Hurt Was Your Pride ]
[ The Fall Did Knock The Air Out Of Your Lungs ]
[ This Happened Once Before When You Were Young ]
[ @ Least This Time You Did Not Bite Your Tongue ]
[ Your Breath & Pride Will Eventually Return ]
[ Sometimes You Block Out What You Have Learned ]
[ & Sliding Face First On Carpet ]
[ Will Always Burn ]
[ You Try Not To Fear ]
[ That All Of Your Lost Tomorrows Will Always Be Near ]
[ They Would Not Had Been Lost ]
[ If The Purpose Of Being There Was Clear ]
[ No Matter The Cost ]
[ No Matter The Amount Of Tears ]
[ You Don’t Believe In Coincidences ]
[ Or Shared Time Instances ]
[ All They Might Be Is Simple Unconnected Incidents ]
[ There Were Simpler Times ]
[ When Buying A Pack Of Baseball Cards Only Cost A Kid (2) Shiny Dimes ]
[ It Seemed Like A Safer Time ]
[ When Bad Guys Were Committing Alot Less Violent Crimes ]
[ Your Self-Esteem Felt Right ]
[ Your Future ]
[ Was Like A Flame ]
[ That Was Burning Bright ]
[ Then You Lost Your Name ]
[ & Everything Felt Like An Uphill Fight ]
[ You Are Trying To Stay Upright On Your Feet ]
[ Even Though You Felt That Your Pride Ran Out To The Street ]
[ When All That You Asked Was That This Bad Dream Would Not Repeat ]
[ Why Couldn’t You Have Had A Dream Of Being A Child Running Through The Cool Night Air? ]
[ Without Having A Single Care ]
[ But Having A Big Heart To Share? ]
[ Dreams Of Childhood Usually Brings A Smile ]
[ & It Stays For Awhile ]
[ Because Afterall … You Were Just A Child ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
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[ Just Because You Are Abused, Does Not Mean That You Will
Abuse ]
[ Just Because You Are Around Drugs ]
[ Does Not Always Mean That You Will Use ]
[ One Night Your Older Sister & Her Friends Tried To Get
You High ]
[ But You Flat Out Declined ]
[ You Put Up A Fight ]
[ Because You Did Not Think That It Was Right ]
[ They Thought It Was Their Place ]
[ To Blow Smoke In Your Face ]
[ You Kept These Facts ]
[ Of These Acts ]
[ Under Your Hat ]
[ & You Never Told Barbara About Any Of That ]
[ Statistics Find ]
[ That When You Are Abused As A Child ]
[ It Messes With Your Mind ]
[ You Were Horribly Abused By Barbara, The First ]
[ You Were Denied Food ]
[ & Water, To Quench Your Thirst ]
[ She Would Leave You For Hours On End ]
[ When Would She Come Back? ]
[ That Would Completely Depend ]
[ On How Much Needed To Be Done ]
[ Life As A Toddler ]
[ Was Not Alot Of Fun ]
[ She Would Feed & Nurture The Other Two ]
[ But There Was Nothing Left For You ]
[ You Were Starved So Long, You Grew An Distended
Belly ]
[ You Were Not Even Given Sandwiches Of Peanut Butter &
Jelly ]
[ Barbara Did Not Like You Much ]
[ For Many Days On End She Skipped Your Breakfast &
Lunch ]
[ It Was Not Because She Was Poor ]
[ Maybe She Wanted To See How Much Abuse You Could
Endure ]
[ Your Wicked, Abusive Mother ]
[ Doted On Your Older Sister ]
[ & Baby Brother ]
[ She Helped Them Thrive ]
[ All She Wanted To Do With You, Is Barely Keep You Alive ]
[ Your Father Heard About All Of This ]
[ & Came Back Over To Hawaii ]
[ To Grab You & Your Sis ]
[ After Barbara Signed Off Her Parental Rights For All
(3) Of Us ]
[ She Walked Out Of Court & Caught A Bus ]
[ To Never Be Seen Again ]
[ She Probably Thought That Was A Win-Win ]
[ It Was For A Little While ]
[ She Was No Longer Able To Abuse Her Child ]
[ But Then Your Dad & His Girlfriend Got Into One Of
The Worst Fights ]
[ It Was Like This, For Many Nights ]
[ But Your Dad Thought That He Would Ruin All Of The Fun ]
[ He Left The Room ]
[ But Came Back With His Gun ]
[ He First Put It To His Girlfriends Head ]
[ Click … It Did Not Fire ]
[ It Worked On His Instead ]
[ How Much More Can You Take? ]
[ Why Did You Have To Be Awake? ]
[ Through All Of This, How Have You Been Able To Walk That Thin
Line? ]
[ Why Don’t You Spend Your Nights Passed Out From Too
Much Cheap Wine? ]
[ Why Don’t You Hate Life? ]
[ How Have You Made It Through More Than (25) Years With The
Same Wife? ]
[ It Is That Inner Drive ]
[ That Has Kept You Alive ]
[ You Have Never Abused Anyone ]
[ You Never Laid Your Hands On Your (18) Year Old Son ]
[ How Did You Not Turn To Drugs & Alcohol? ]
[ How Did You Keep That On The Other Side Of The Wall? ]
[ Your Older Sister Succumbed To Them ]
[ Your Younger Brother Had A Drinking Problem ]
[ You Were The (1) Out Of The (3) That Barbara Did Not Want To
Survive ]
[ But You Are The Only (1) That Is Still Alive ]
[ How? ]
[ Why Look @ This Now? ]
[ ? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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