Tag: #lonely

(257)▪︎[ Only The Lonely … 1•22•2023 ]

[ How Does Someone Deal With The Loneliness? ]
[ A Bit Of The Onliness ]
[ Because You Want A Little Of The Only ]
[ Be A Little Bit Less ]

[ Do You Push Aside ]
[ Your Pride? ]
[ So Your Emotions Are Not Taken On An Up & Down Ride? ]

[ Are You Checked On? ]
[ Maybe Twice ]
[ Does It Feel Wrong ]
[ Well, It Didn’t Feel Nice ]

[ But They All Gathered & Made Themselves A Team ]
[ That Sounds So Special ]
[ Kind Of Like A Dream ]
[ But One That Was Rational ]

[ Oh, Everybody Came Together In Harmony ]
[ You Almost Expected Some Kind Of Home Made Remedy ]

[ It Could All Have Their Own Part ]
[ & Express The Happy Feelings That Come From The Heart ]

[ Now They’re Having A Laugh A Minute ]
[ You Just Guess That Your Heart Isn’t In It ]

[ They’re Right, You Could Have Come In There @ Any Time ]
[ You Feel It’s Much More Important To Write Another Rhyme ]

[ Do You Join In Or Stand Back? ]
[ Feeling Wanted Is What This Lacks ]

[ You Just Have Too Thin ]
[ Of Skin ]
[ Where’s The Vodka ]
[ Where’s The Gin? ]
[ Oh, There’s The Tequila ]
[ Let The Drinking Begin! ]

[ Pass The Lemon, Give Me The Lime ]
[ When She Hands You The Cuervo Gold ]
[ It Is Drinking Time ]
[ Until Someone Gets Knocked Out Cold ]

______________________

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ] [酪]

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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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(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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(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 ]

(336)▪︎[ The Lonely Man … 4•23•2021 ]

[ Woe Is The Heart Of The Lonely Man ]
[ Walking Through Life Doing The Best That He Can ]

[ He Tries To Put A Smile On The Face Of Someone 
      Every Single Day ]
[ Each Time Is Different ]
[ & So Is The Way ]

[ Maybe Giving A Much Softer, Kinder Word ]
[ Than The Stranger Has Ever Heard ]

[ In A Long Long Time ]
[ Maybe A Positive Word In A Short Poetic Rhyme ]

[ The Lonely Man’s Sole Intention On This Earth ]
[ Is To Show & Tell Others About Their Worth ]

[ Some May Need A Pick-Me-Up Or A Compliment Or
     Two ]
[ Maybe Some Positive Reinforcement About What They
     Do ]

[ A Moment In Time That They Will Remember ]
[ A Date In Time Between Now & December ]

[ It Does Not Cost The Lonely Man One Single Cent ]
[ To Show A Stranger That They Only Have The Best
     Intent ]

[ & Show Their Best ]
[ Interest ]

[ Does The Lonely Man Ask For Anything In Return? ]
[ Has The Lonely Man Taught The Stranger A Single
     Thing To Learn? ]

[ Maybe To Never Judge Another ]
[ Like Others ]
[ Are Prone To Judge A Book By Its Cover ]

[ The Tattered Pages May Look ]
[ Like It May Be An Old Throw Away Book ]

[ But Not By Looks Or The Reading Of A Single Page ]
[ Can A Book Tell The Invaluable Content ]
[ Or The Approximate Age ]

[ Of What May Be The True Intentions That Lie Deep
     Down @ The Heart ]
[ If There Was A Finish Line ]
[ When Was The Start? ]

[ A Kind Word From A Stranger May Be Just That ]
[ It Deserves A Thoughtful Thank You ]
[ A Tip Of The Hat ]

[ & Then With A Blink That Lonely Man Is Gone ]
[ Because It Was Past The Time For Him To Move On ]

~ The End ~

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

(453)▪︎[ You Just Do Not See This … 5•29•2021 ]

[ I Am Just Trying To Get Through ]
[ To You ]

[ Everynight @ 8:00 O’clock]
[ I Would Try To Call ]
[ But There Were Times, When I Found Out Later, That I Was
     Blocked ]

[ After That Happened More Than Twice ]
[ I Told You That Was Not Very Nice ]

[ You Would Never Like It If That Was Turned Around ]
[ You Should Look For What Is Lost ]
[ But Was Never Found ]

[ It Would Be A Tough Go, Looking For Your Heart ]
[ It Would Be Much Easier To Put The Pieces Together ]
[ Of The Ones That You Tore Apart ]

[ Very Few Were By Accident ]
[ Most Were On Purpose ]
[ Because Of Some Kind Of Incident ]

[ That You Perceived ]
[ But Was Actually Never Received ]

[ You Listen To Your Head Talk ]
[ … Alot ]

[ Sometimes Scenarios Play Out Only In Your Head ]
[ Is It Because You Are No Longer Taking All Of
     Your Meds? ]

[ You Have To Realize ]
[ That When You Don’t Take Them ]
[ You Are A Real Ass, When You Try To Socialize ]

[ Nobody Invites You To Get-Togethers Anymore ]
[ When You Come Up On Their Doorbell Cam ]
[ They Go Quiet & Nobody Approaches The Door ]

[ If You Feel Sad Because You Live A Lonely Existence ]
[ Blame Yourself, Not Others ]
[ Because You Never See The Difference ]

[ Between Their Fault Or Yours ]
[ What Was The Last Straw ]
[ Was When You Called Your Last 3 Female Friends ( A HUGE
     PACK OF WHORES ) ]

[ That Did It ]
[ They Did Not Deserve That, One Bit ]
[ That Is Why You Sit ]

[ @ Home … Alone ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(355)▪︎[ Who Was That? … 4•28•2021 ]

[ One Day The Lonely Man Came Back To Show
     His Deepest Scars ]
[ When He Pulled Up His Undershirt T-Top ]
[ They Looked As Big As Small Cars ]

[ Why Would The Lonely Man Lift Up His Shirt? ]
[ & Show His Hurt? ]

[ It Was NOT For The Itty Bitty ]
[ Pity ]
[ That He Could Get From A Stranger In The City ]

[ It Was So Others Could Learn ]
[ That It Doesn’t Take Spicy Food ]
[ To Cause Someone’s Heart To Burn ]

[ Wounds Are Not Always Made In The Physical Sense ]
[ Just Like Someone’s Dirty Look Can Make You Tense ]

[ A Stab Is Not Always Physical ]
[ Jokes Are Not Always Comical ]

[ If You Are Not Always Mindful ]
[ Jokes Can Quickly Turn Hurtful ]

[ You Can Not Joke About Gender, Race Or Being
     Black Or White ]
[ You Can’t Joke About Age Or Weight ]
[ But People Still Joke About Some One’s Height ]

[ Asks The Lonely Man ]
[ You Don’t Try To Go There, There Or There ]
[ But Others Have A Sense Of Entitlement & Think That
     They Can ]

[ Sometimes He Takes The Elder Woman’s Cart ]
[ Back Into Walmart ]

[ Not Because He Was Being Asked ]
[ By The Older Lady With The Smile On Her Mask ]

[ He Never Stands Out In The Crowd ]
[ That Is Not What The Lonely Man Is About ]

[ How Will His Wounds Heal? ]
[ How Do His Wounds Feel? ]

[ Everyone One Has Wounds Of Some Sort ]
[ Some People Have Been Successful In Building Their
     Own Imaginary Emotional Fort ]

[ ( THAT IS QUITE THE WALL THAT YOU’ve BUILT ) ]
[ Is It As High As Your Mountain Of Guilt? ]

[ How About The Many Pages Of Regrets? ]
[ The Lonely Man Has More, He Bets ]

[ Looking Within @ Your Own Feelings Stings ]
[ Self-Doubt & Insecurity Are The Kings ]

[ Nothing Around The Lonely Man Makes Him Feel
     That Bad ]
[ Or That Sad ]
[ Oh Here Is One ( HELLO, DAD! ) ]

[ Sometimes The Lonely Man Could Be Standing On
     The Corner Waiting For The Bus ]
[ Sometimes There Is A Little Bit Of The Lonely Man
     In Each One Of Us ]

[ ( a very quiet mike drops ) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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


    

(567)▪︎[ Are They The Same … 6•17•2020 ]

[ Is Loneliness The Worst Feeling You Could Have? ]
[ Is That The One Feeling That Makes You Feel Like You Have
Been Cut In Half? ]

[ It Is Like Being Invited To A Party & You Have No One To Bring ]
[ Or Waiting By The Phone ]
[ & It Never Rings ]

[ Is It That You Know ]
[ That Nobody Will Want To Go? ]

[ It Is A Fact ]
[ That When You Do A Selfless Act ]
[ That There Is No One Around To Pat You On The Back? ]

[ Being Altruistic Is Being Kind ]
[ Without Having A Reward In Mind ]

[ But It Is Nice ]
[ When Some Other Person Sees It With Their Own Eyes ]
[ & Then You Feel Like Doing That Twice ]

[ How Does One Make Loneliness Go Away? ]
[ Even For Just One Day? ]
[ When It Does ]
[ Will It Stay ]
[ That Way ]

[ Does Despair ]
[ & Loneliness ]
[ Come As A Pair? ]
[ Is That What Makes People ]
[ Lose All Of Their Hair? ]

[ What Does Someone That Feels All Alone ]
[ Do About The Silence ]
[ When It All Sounds So Monotone? ]

[ Is That Much Better Than Feeling All Alone In A Crowd ]
[ While Trying To Drown ]
[ Out All Of The Voices That Sound ]
[ So Loud? ]

[ Does The Silence ]
[ Bring On The Violence? ]

[ Loneliness & Feeling Alone Are Two Different Things ]
[ The One Thing They Have In Common Though ]
[ Is That They Both Makes The Heart Sting ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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