(350)▪︎[ Giving Up … 8-15-2025 ]

[ You Feel Like You Are Giving Up ]
[ You Are Catching Your Tears ]
[ By Using Your Coffee Cup ]

[ You Are Feeling Like Your Life Source ]
[ Seems To Be Leaving Your Body ]
[ It Feels Like You Do Not Have Any Kind Of Protective Force ]
[ Keeping Your Head From Getting Foggy ]


[ You Have Tried All Of Your Adult Life ]
[ To Be A Good Husband, Father, Friend & Man ]
[ To Others, Like Your Son & Your Wife ]
[ While Also Wishing That They Would Become Your Biggest Fans ]

[ The Sparkle Has Been Leaving Your Eyes ]
[ For Several Years Now ]
[ Only You Can See Your Pain & Hear Your Cries ]
[ You Would Like To Express This To Others, But You Do Not Know How ]

[ Everyone Is Way To Busy ]
[ To See Your Pain ]
[ To Others They Might See You As Lazy ]
[ & A Little Bit Insane ]
[ Some People That Knows You, Might Want To Call You Crazy ]
[ But Thankfully, Most Of Them Refrain ]

[ Sometimes All You Hear Is The Riot ]
[ In Your Head ]
[ Why Can’t You Have A Single Night Of Quiet ]
[ Instead? ]

[ The Other Times Your Thoughts Are Like A Spinning Top ]
[ There Have Been Many That You Will Feel Like A Flop ]
[ Whenever That Happens ]
[ It Is So Obvious That Is The Reason Why Your Self-Esteem Will Take A Sudden Drop ]

[ Your Marriage Feels Like It Is Falling ]
[ Off A Cliff ]
[ Nobody Ever Feels Like Calling ]
[ To Give You That Much Needed Lift ]

[ You Used To Have ]
[ So Many Names In Your Rolodex ]
[ Now You Don’t Even See ½ ]
[ That Many Names To Text ]

[ When You Are Smack Dab In The Middle Of A Major Crisis ]
[ You Reach For One Of Your Electronic Devices ]

[ But When You Look Through Your Contacts List ]
[ You Have No Idea Who To Call ]
[ When You Get Upset You Clench Your Fists ]
[ All That Does Is Make You Flashback To When Frustration Caused You To Hit A Wall ]

[ But You Are Not Angry, You Are Emotionally Hurt ]
[ You Start To Feel That Your Blood Pressure Has Bottomed Out ]
[ Will Anyone Be Able To See Your Broken Heart Through Your Shirt? ]
[ That Is Just One Of The Many Things That You Doubt ]

[ Your Wife Has Said That She Hates What You Have Changed ]
[ Into ]
[ Nobody Understands What Your Brain ]
[ Has Been Through ]

[ Maybe Your Thought Process ]
[ Cannot Be Fixed ]
[ That Causes You To Feel Lost ]
[ Because You Feel As Strong As A House That Has Been Built With Match Sticks ]

[ When You Text, “I Give Up” To Your Friends, That Was A Cry For Help ]
[ Now You Feel Like You Should Have Kept Your Vulnerability ]
[ On A Garage Shelf ]
[ Because Someone With Your Type Of Personality ]
[ Should Have Reached Out On “Yelp” ]

[ You Have Kind Of Felt ]
[ Throughout The Years That You Are Like An Aquired Taste ]
[ Your Inner Circle Is Getting Smaller Like The Tightening Of The Belt ]
[ That You Wear Around Your Waist ]

[ It Is Not Crystal Clear ]
[ Where Things Will Be Going From Here ]

[ You Really Have To Get Your Thoughts Straight ]
[ You Cannot Wait ]
[ You Need To Take Your Future, Your Fate ]
[ Into Your Own Hands ]
[ Post Haste ]

[ Get Back To Living As “One” With Your Spouse ]
[ So You Will Have, Once Again ]
[ A Harmonious House ]
[ Right When Your Days Begin ]
[ Stop Being A Grouch ]
[ Do Things That Can Be Looked @ As A “Win-Win” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha 

Na 
Lopaka DeVoe 

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(172)▪︎[ S.Y.O.T.O.S. … 2026 ]

[ If Someone Close To You, Comes Up To You & Says, “See You On The Other Side” ]
[ He Is Telling You, In Their Mind, He Has Already Died ]

[ He Hopes To See You Somewhere In The Next Life ]
[ Away From All The Danger & Constant Strife ]

[ He Is Giving Up ]
[ He Wants His Life Line Cut ]
[ & His Book Shut ]

[ It Is Not Suicide, Per Say ]
[ That Phrase Is Telling You That Nothing Is Okay ]
[ On That Day ]

[ It Is Probably Not What You Expect ]
[ But Your Friend Is Showing You The Highest Respect ]
[ They Know That You Won’t Over React ]

[ There Is Nothing To Do ]
[ This Is Something That He Just Has To Work Through ]

[ This Is How He Wants To Go ]
[ & It Was Something That He Wanted You To Know ]

[ He Hopes That You Will Always Have A Smile On Your Face Whenever You Remember His Name ]
[ He Is Not Handing Out Blame ]
[ Nor Is He Hanging His Head In Shame ]

[ Everyone Dies @ Some Point ]
[ He Is Not Holding Anyone @ Gunpoint ]
[ He Is Not Asking You To Join ]

[ There Is Nothing To Assess ]
[ There Is No Issue To Process ]
[ Or Access ]

[ There Are No Secrets To Unlock ]
[ In A Safe Deposit Box ]

[ After He Has Moved On ]
[ He Hopes That The Memories You Have About Him Will Not Be Gone ]

[ Remember The Camping Trips That You Both Used To Take ]
[ Fishing @ Prairie Lake ]
[ Remember How He Taught You How To Bake ]
[ Cookies, Fudge & Your Wife’s Birthday Cake? ]

[ He Hopes That You Will Remember When ]
[ He Took You Skiing In Bend ]
[ & Then ]

[ He Wasn’t Lying ]
[ When He Told You To Try Flying ]

[ It Was Such A Freeing ]
[ Feeling ]

[ Being Up Above The Clouds ]
[ Away From The Crowds ]

[ He Told You Specifically Because He Hopes You Understand ]

[ S.Y.O.T.O.S. Everyone ]
[ Now Your Life Has Lost Its Fun ]
[ So It Has Been A Good Run ]
[ Now … You Are Done ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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