[ I Felt Like I Just Had A Near Death Experience ]
[ When It Came To Almost Having A Heart Attack Or Not ]
[ I Couldn’t Tell The Difference ]
[ When Put On The Spot ]
[ Could That Have Been ]
[ The End? ]
[ I Really Found That I Wasn’t Ready Yet ]
[ So I Lost A Bet ]
[ With Myself ]
[ Because My Feet Were Not Set ]
[ Neither Was My Heart ]
[ I Didn’t Want It To Explode ]
[ Apart ]
[ Did We Ward It Off @ The Pass? ]
[ Because Panic ]
[ Was Kicking My Ass ]
[ I Got The Scare Of My Life ]
[ I Was Saved By My Wife ]
[ She Really Kept A Calm Head ]
[ & Gave Me A Calming Med ]
[ Her 911 Training Really Paid Off ]
[ Her Thoughts Never Got Lost ]
[ I Think I Found Out Something Tonight ]
[ & That Is … ]
[ I’m Not Ready To Extinguish The Pilot Light ]
[ Was This A Wake-Up Call For Me? ]
[ Could This Really Be? ]
[ We Shall See ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Tag: #death
(384)▪︎[ Death & Taxes … 4•17•2020 ]
[ Life Can Be So Fleeting ]
[ For Those Left Behind ]
[ So Defeating ]
[ Death & Taxes Are The Only Sure Things In Life They
Say ]
[ & When Your Time Is Up ]
[ There Will Not Be Another Day ]
[ Tik-Tok, Tic-Tok ]
[ Goes The Life Expectancy Clock ]
[ Just Like A Heart Attack ]
[ There’s No Going Back ]
[ You Can’t Expand The Given 24 Hours ]
[ No One Can Do That ]
[ No One Has Any Of Those Powers ]
[ You Can’t Avoid Taxes Or Death ]
[ You Can Hasten The Journey ]
[ By Shooting & Smoking Meth ]
[ There’s No Way In Hell That Will Happen To Me ]
[ I’m Just Trying To Be Who I Think I Should Be ]
[ But Who Or What Is That? ]
[ I Just Want To Take A Good Swing ]
[ When It’s My Turn, Up To Bat ]
[ See The Ball, Take A Step Toward Your Goal & Swing ]
[ Give It All That You Can Bring ]
[ Just Try, Try, Try ]
[ Don’t Settle On Just Getting By ]
[ But If You Get The Feeling That You Are Going To The Ground ]
[ Don’t Reach Out ]
[ To Pull Others Down ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(384)▪︎[ Death & Taxes … 4•17•2020 ]
[ Life Can Be So Fleeting ]
[ & For Those Left Behind ]
[ So Defeating ]
[ Death & Taxes Are The Only Sure Things In Life They
Say ]
[ & When Your Time Is Up ]
[ There Will Not Be Another Day ]
[ Tik-Tok, Tic-Tok ]
[ Goes The Life Expectancy Clock ]
[ Just Like A Heart Attack ]
[ There’s No Going Back ]
[ You Can’t Expand The Given 24 Hours ]
[ No One Can Do That ]
[ No One Has Any Of Those Powers ]
[ You Can’t Avoid Taxes Or Death ]
[ You Can Hasten The Journey ]
[ By Shooting & Smoking Meth ]
[ There’s No Way In Hell That Will Happen To Me ]
[ I’m Just Trying To Be Who I Think I Should Be ]
[ But Who Or What Is That? ]
[ I Just Want To Take A Good Swing ]
[ When It’s My Turn Up To Bat ]
[ See The Ball, Take A Step Toward Your Goal & Swing ]
[ & Give It All That You Can Bring ]
[ Just Try, Try, Try ]
[ & Don’t Settle On Just Getting By ]
[ But If You Get The Feeling That You Are Going To The Ground ]
[ Don’t Reach Out ]
[ To Pull Others Down ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(627)▪︎[ Thank You, Len Bias … 7•14•2020 ]
[ There Once Was This Young Man Who Was Exceptional
@ Basketball ]
[ But In 1986 ]
[ Len Bias Became MY Wake-Up Call ]
[ The Night That He Went #2 In The NBA Draft He Failed To
Use His Brain ]
[ Because He Went To A Party With Some Friends ]
[ & Smoked Some Crack Cocaine ]
[ He Found That His Body Had A Sensitivity To That Illegal
Substance ]
[ & It Proved To Be The Difference ]
[ Between Good & Bad Health ]
[ Life & Death ]
[ Poverty & Wealth ]
[ His Heart Stopped & Then Exploded ]
[ When The Paramedics Arrived ]
[ He Had Already Coded ]
[ Flat Lined, On The Floor ]
[ They Put Him On A Gurney ]
[ & Wheeled Him Out The Door ]
[ Nobody Waved ]
[ As They Took Him To His Grave ]
[ I Read The Article About This In The Sports Illustrated
That I Got That Week ]
[ I Could Not Speak ]
[ & My Legs Got Wobbly & Weak ]
[ Before This I Had Tried Cocaine 4 Times Maybe 5 ]
[ After I Read That Article ]
[ I Felt Lucky To Still Be Alive! ]
[ If A Finely Tuned Athelete’s Heart Could Do That ]
[ How Did Mine Not Stop? ]
[ When It Is Covered With Fat? ]
[ I Did Not Even Have To Think Too Hard About It ]
[ I Never Wanted To Get ]
[ To Where It Became A Deadly Habit ]
[ Enough Was Enough ]
[ I Never Ever Again Snorted That Stuff ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 254 ][ All Hands. … 3•28•2021 ]
A ][° 254 °][ ALL HANDS … 3•28•2021 ]
[ There Should Be A Call For All Hands On Deck ]
[ & Help To Keep Each Other In Check ]
[ Strangers Are Pulling Guns On Each Other ]
[ Maybe Some Guys Are Avenging The Death Of Their
Brother ]
[ When All Is Said & Done ]
[ There Are Parents All Over The State ]
[ Making Funeral Arrangements For Their Sons ]
[ One Problem With Bullets Is That They Can’t Control Their
Direction ]
[ Once The Trigger Is Pulled ]
[ There Cannot Be Any Corrections ]
[ They Go Where They Must ]
[ There Is No Deceiving Or A Lack Of Trust ]
[ They Go Where They Go ]
[ Where They Come To Stop ]
[ You Just Don’t Know ]
[ Will It Be A Head, Leg Or Arm ]
[ That Will Be Harmed? ]
[ Or Will It Be A Wall ]
[ That Takes It All? ]
[ The One Thing About Bullets Is That They Work ]
[ There Are No Behavior Problems Or Weird Quirks ]
[ With All Of These Shootings ]
[ Will Everybody Forget About All Of The Vandalism &
Looting? ]
[ It Seems Like A Shooting Here & A Murder There ]
[ Would Anybody Care ]
[ But Most Of The Time, That Is Not The Case ]
[ That Also Means ]
[ That Nobody Is Safe ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 277 ][ 9:29 … 4•3•2021 ]
[ NINE MINUTES & 29 SECONDS … 4•2•2021 ]
[ 9:29 ]
[ Does Not Seems To Be Alot Of Time ]
[ For Someone To Sit In Their Room & Whine ]
[ Maybe To Possibly Walk A Mile? ]
[ Sweep A Large Section Of The Kitchen Tile ]
[ Something That Would Not Be Done Very Often ]
[ You Could Boil Three Different Servings Of
Top Ramen ]
[ 9 Minutes & 29 Seconds Seems Like Forever If
You Were Being Tortured ]
[ That Makes A Horrible Mental Picture ]
[ Police Officer Chauvin Had His Knee On George Floyd’s
Neck For That Long ]
[ Even Though Chauvin Knew That What He Was Doing
Was Wrong ]
[ This Is Not A Lie ]
[ It Took Floyd 9:29 Minutes To Die ]
[ The World Should Give A Big ( THANK YOU ) To The
Woman That Recorded The Horrible Video ]
[ If People Were Not Recording The Murder ]
[ America Would Most Likely Never Know ]
[ That Police Department Would Have Had The Whole
Incident, The Statements, & Any Evidence, Squashed Like
A Bug ]
[ Then With The Help Of All Of The Officers ]
[ Swept It Under The Rug ]
[ It Would Create A Big Lump ]
[ & It Would Leave Floyd’s Family Stumped ]
[ But They Did & It Was Horrible What That Video Said ]
[ It Took A Very Long 9:29 Minutes Of Chauvin Kneeling
On Floyd’s Neck ]
[ To Leave Him Laying There, Dead ]
[ Nobody Can Hold Their Breath For That Amount Of
Time ]
[ Nothing That Floyd Was Doing While He Was Laying
There Justified The Restraint Or The Technique ]
[ So Chauvin Must Have Known That He Was Committing
A Crime ]
[ If Someone Had 9:29 Minutes They Could Eat A Meal ]
[ During Any Part Of The 569 Seconds Could I Imagine How
George Would Feel ]
[ As Chauvin Knelt ]
[ He Had To Know How Bad Floyd Felt ]
[ Could He Tell That Chauvin Had Murderous Intentions? ]
[ Could He Make That Connection? ]
[ While Chauvin Was Kneeling, Couldn’t He Tell If Floyd
Wasn’t Breathing Anymore? ]
[ Through That Whole Confrontation ]
[ Chavin Showed The World That He Was Evil Clear To
His Core ]
[ & Of Course ]
[ Chauvin Knew That Was Using Deadly Force ]
[ He Must Have Known It Was ]
[ I Guess That Seems To Be What Chauvin Does ]
[ The Next Time That I Watched The Video I Noticed That
Chauvin’s Hands Were Completely In His Pockets ]
[ How Much More @ Ease Can Chauvin Get? ]
[ When A Man Puts His Hands In His Pockets, He Is
Relaxing ]
[ For Him, @ That Time There Was Nothing Taxing ]
[ Now Chauvin Finds Himself In Court ]
[ After The Incident Chauvin Found Himself Out Of Work ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(260)▪︎[ The Hard Time With My Dad … 3•30•2021 ].
[ In Less Than 180 Minutes, I Need You To Be
By My Side ]
[ Because My Thoughts Are Making Me Write A Story
About The Night My Father Died ]
[ It Seemed Like I Had Not Lived With My Dad For Very Long ]
[ Was It About Two Weeks, Before Everything Went All Wrong ]
[ The Apartment Seemed Kind Of Small & The Furniture Was Sparse ]
[ I Guess Anything Was Better Than Living With My Mom ]
[ When Every Day Was Harsh ]
[ I Thought For A Young Child I Was Really Good @ Watching My Dad ]
[ One Constant That I Did Notice ]
[ Was That It Didn’t Take Much To Make Him Really Mad ]
[ He Wasn’t Used To Having 2 Young Children @ His Feet ]
[ He Didn’t Have Alot Of Food In The House ]
[ That 2 Kids Under 3 Could Eat ]
[ It Took Me Awhile To Be Able To Chew & Swallow ]
[ @ Least I Have Food ]
[ So My Belly Does Not Feel So Hollow ]
[ We Had Already Met His Girlfriend Twice ]
[ She Seemed Really Nice ]
[ They Would Go Out Drinking Almost Every Night ]
[ Our Babysitter Was Really Good @ Comforting Us
When They Would Come Home Drunk ]
[ & Continue To Fight ]
[ Then One Night They Came Home Fighting Until It
Got Really Late ]
[ Whatever They Were Yelling About ]
[ It Sounded Like There Was Alot Of Hate ]
[ The Amount That They Argue I Couldn’t Tell What
They Saw In Each Other ]
[ I Wondered If She Was Supposed To Replace My Mother? ]
[ The Yelling Continued For Hours ]
[ My Dad Was So Angry & Sweaty ]
[ That It Looked Like He Just Walked Out Of A Shower ]
[ This Happened Many Nights In A Row ]
[ Whatever Was Wrong ]
[ I Was Too Young To Know ]
[ Then My Dad Left The Room For A Minute Or Two ]
[ I Was Hoping That The Arguement Was Through ]
[ But My Dad Came Back ]
[ & He Looked Like He Was Ready To Attack ]
[ He Was So Angry ]
[ That Is Why I Didn’t See ]
[ The Gun Until It Was Up Against Her Temple ]
[ Who Knew That This Was Getting So Terrible ]
[ I Thought He Just Used It To Scare ]
[ & Then He Pulled The Trigger Right Then & There ]
[ All I Heard Was A ( CLICK! ) ]
[ My Stomach Was Getting Sick ]
[ My Dad Was More Than Frustrated ]
[ He Was Hotly Irritated ]
[ When He Put The Gun To His Own Head & Pulled The Trigger ]
[ Everything Was In Slow Motion ]
[ & Everything Got Bigger ]
[ The Noise Was Loud & Shocking ]
[ The Shock Stopped Me From Walking ]
[ My Dad Did Not Have A Phone Anywhere ]
[ His Girlfriend Ran Out The Front Door ]
[ Looking Very Scared ]
[ I Looked @ My Sister, Not Knowing What To Do ]
[ I Did Not Have A Clue ]
[ I Was Barely Older Than Two ]
[ I Just Stood There Watching My Dad Dieing On The Floor ]
[ I Wanted To Stop Crying ]
[ While Wondering If We Would See His Girlfriend Anymore ]
[ What Was Never Known ]
[ Is That His Girlfriend Ran & Used The Closest Pay Phone ]
[ To Call For Help ]
[ Her Selfless Act ]
[ Should Have Been Written About On Yelp ]
[ That Was The Last Time That I Saw My Dad Alive ]
[ From That Moment On ]
[ My Life Took A Long, Spiraling Dive ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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