(209)▪︎[ Yes You … 3•3•2020 ]

[ I Want To Write My Best Stories When I Write About Us ]
[ I Want My Words To Hit The Reader ]
[ Like A Greyhound Bus ]

[ A Bus, Not A Train Or Car ]
[ I Want To Leave Them Wanting More ]
[ I Want Them To Take The Feeling & Put It In A Jar ]

[ Twist The Lid, Nice & Tight ]
[ So Nothing Can Leave, Except A Little Bit Of Light ]

[ Everytime You Called I Would Hang Up & I’d Walk Away Grinning ]
[ Because If I Was In A Competition For Best Brother ]
[ I Knew I Was Winning ]

[ By A Mile ]
[ Even Though I Would Have To Wait Awhile ]

[ Your Call Was ALWAYS Worth The Wait ]
[ & Now When You Moved To A Closer State ]

[ God Called You Home ]
[ Oh, If I’d Only Known ]
[ Every Week I Would Had Been Calling You On The Phone ]

[ But I Didn’t ]
[ & I Couldn’t ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo iā ‘oe  ]
[  A hui hou mākou  ]
[  Aloha  ] ‎ 
  ‎
[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe ]

(888)▪︎[ Grief Is … 10•21•2020 ]

[ Grief Is Such A Tricky Thing ]
[ You Can Never Know The Amount Of Emotions
It Can Bring ]

[ One Minute You Are Up & Then The Next You Are
Down ]
[ On Your knees ]
[ Staring @ The Ground ]

[ Tears Rolling Down Your Face Dripping Down Your
Chin ]
[ Eyeballs Rolling Back ]
[ Because The Scenery Around You Is Starting To Spin ]

[ But Then It’s Gone ]
[ As Fast As It Came On ]

[ You Pick Yourself Up & Say That You Are Doing
Okay ]
[ Maybe For That Moment ]
[ Maybe For That Day ]

[ But Memories Can Be A Double Edged Sword Of The
Worst Kind ]
[ It All Depends On Which Side Of The Sword ]
[ Landed Upright In Your Mind ]

[ Was It A Blessing ]
[ Memory? ]
[ Or Will It Be Messing ]
[ With A Memory Of Someone That You Will No Longer See? ]

[ Good Times & Bad ]
[ Thinking Of All Of The Regrets That You Had ]
[ Makes You Sad ]
[ When Loved Ones Depart Too Early ]
[ That Could Make You Mad ]

[ The Simplest Thing Can Trigger Your Grief ]
[ But It Is Not So Simple To Find Relief ]

[ You Could Hit The Pills ]
[ & Then The Bottle ]
[ To Make You Extremely Ill ]

[ Alcohol Can Help You Escape YOU ]
[ But You Eventually Wake Up ]
[ So You Never Do ]

[ Grief Is A Snap Of The Finger Away From Starting ]
[ Because You Never Get Over The Dearly Departing ]

[ You May Not Have Known Them Since Birth ]
[ To Gauge Their Total Worth ]
[ On This Earth ]

[ But If You Look Back From The Start ]
[ When They Became A Part ]
[ Of Your Heart ]

[ You Can Let Out A Big Smile ]
[ If Only For A Little While ]

[ Then Tuck Them Away Into Your Quite Large Memory
Bank ]
[ & Saying Their Name Is A Way To Say Thanks ]

[ Then Thrive ]
[ & Stay In Drive ]
[ For As Long As You Are Alive ]

[ Because YOU Still Are ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]