[ Oh Brother, Where Did You Go? ]
[ What Happened? ]
[ Only You & God Know ]
[ Why Can’t I Get You Out Of My Head ]
[ @ Night I Need A Potent Sleeping Med ]
[ To Turn My Waking Hours To Sleep ]
[ But It’s Never Too Deep ]
[ So Many Memories Of You Are Always Pleasant ]
[ You Were My Anti-Depressant ]
[ I Would Laugh So Much During Your Calls ]
[ It Would Shake The Walls ]
[ What Am I Supposed To Do Now ]
[ I Want To Laugh Out Loud Again ]
[ But I Don’t Know How ]
[ They Say ( LAUGH OUT LOUD & THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH
YOU ) ]
[ Tell Me How, Send Me A Clue ]
[ I Need To Treasure Those Around Me More ]
[ I Need To Be More @ Ease ]
[ To Open The Door ]
[ I Love Calling Las Vegas To Talk To My Niece ]
[ It Gives My Mind A Little Peace ]
[ Because When I Talk To My Brothers Daughter ]
[ Sanoe Reminds Me So Much Of Her Father ]
[ She Too, Makes Me Laugh ]
[ For The Time That We Talk ]
[ It Cuts My Grief In Half ]
[ I Know I Talk About My Brother Alot ]
[ I Just Can’t Get My Thoughts To Stop ]
[ Have You Ever Been Able To Stop The Thoughts That Come
Into Your Mind? ]
[ How Do You Rewind? ]
[ What Do I Need To Do To Remind? ]
[ Myself To Remember? ]
[ What If The Calendar Says It’s Already December? ]
[ Oh, Wait ]
[ I’m Too Late ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Tag: #mourning
(381)▪︎[ It Was Her … 4•16•2020 ]
[ Mourning The Inevitable, Seems Like a Waste Of Time ]
[ That’s Like Taking A Pair Of Old Tennis Shoes ]
[ & Trying To Make Them Shine ]
[ How Much Time & Effort Do You Put In? ]
[ If You Don’t Know When It Ends ]
[ How Do You Know Where To Begin ]
[ Quite A Conundrum That You Stepped Into ]
[ Does It Make You Blue? ]
[ Do You Know What To Do? ]
[ Then You Feel Like You Stepped Into Quicksand ]
[ If You Can ]
[ Can You Stand? ]
[ When You Struggle, You Sink ]
[ When You Relax ]
[ You Stay On Top, So You Can Blink ]
[ When You Try To Relax, You Have Cognitive Dissonance ]
[ Your Body Wants To Struggle ]
[ & You Don’t Have Any Confidence ]
[ Get Up & Get Out ]
[ Your Mind Tries To Shout ]
[ Will Anyone Miss You? ]
[ Will Anyone Come To Help You? ]
[ Will Anyone Save You? ]
[ Do You Deserve To Be Saved? ]
[ If You Get Out Will You Behave? ]
[ Now You See Someone On The Horizon ]
[ Do They Have A Phone ]
[ & Their Service Is Through Verizon? ]
[ You Try To Shout, But You Can’t Make A Sound ]
[ You Struggle & Start Sinking Down ]
[ Then Your Hand Feels A Rope ]
[ & You Are Pulled Out To Dry Ground ]
[ & You Feel Through Happenstance ]
[ You’ve Been Given A Second Chance ]
[ @ Life ]
[ When You Look Up To See Who Was There ]
[ You See Your Wife ]
[ Then You Are Startled Awake & It Seems ]
[ You Were Having One Of Your Bad Dreams ]
[ Then You Look @ Your Wife & You Know Something You Should
Give ]
[ You Give Her This Look ]
[ That Tells Her She’s The Reason You Live ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(452)▪︎[ Not Okay To Mourn … 5•4•2020 ]
[ Is It A Waste Of Time To Mourn? ]
[ Does It Continue To Bring Up The Reasons ]
[ That Has Your Heart Torn? ]
[ Over & Over You Have It Bouncing Around In Your Head ]
[ Would You Rather Feel The Pain ]
[ In Your Heart Instead? ]
[ Nobody Wants To Think About What That Pain You Have Is
All About ]
[ What If You Are Wrong? ]
[ & That Causes Doubt ]
[ If You Shout ]
[ It Out ]
[ Does Anybody Actually Hear A Single Word? ]
[ If They Did ]
[ What Have They Heard? ]
[ Will They Say? ]
[ Today? ]
[ Okay ]
[ But In What Way? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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