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(310)▪︎[ No More … 2026 ]

[ You Try To Live A Good Life Writing Poetic Stories On Your Phone ]
[ You Don’t Want To Live The Rest Of Your Years All Alone ]
[ You Are Careful To Watch Your Tone ]
[ But In The End, The Life You Might Be Saving ]
[ Will Be Your Own ]

[ The Main Thing Is, You Are The Priority, First ]
[ You Need To Take That Drink ]
[ To Quench Your Over Powering Thirst ]

[ This Is Neither Being Self-Centered Or Narcissistic ]
[ In A Time Where Most People Are Being Pessimistic ]
[ You Are Trying To Remain Optimistic ]

[ You Need To Be The One ]
[ To Get Things Done ]
[ Because You Do Not Take Off & Run ]
[ When Things Stopped Being Fun ]

[ Fun Will Only Last For A Second Or (2) ]
[ Nobody Needs To Drop A Clue ]
[ To Say That The Sky Isn’t Always Blue ]

[ You Used To Have Lots Of Dreams ]
[ Based On A Variety Of Things ]
[ But When You Would Wake-Up To Your Own Screams ]
[ It Really Stings ]

[ You Have Found That It Is Always Best To Talk Straight-Up & From The Heart ]
[ But Sometimes When You Do That ]
[ There Are Some People Who Want To Rip You Apart ]

[ & Leave Your Heart In Little Pieces ]
[ You Have Even Gotten That Kind Of Attitude, From One Of Your Niece’s ]

[ Through The Years You Make A Family By Who You Choose ]
[ When People Aren’t Forced To Love Each Other ]
[ You Cannot Lose ]

[ But People Will Come & Go Throughout Your Whole Life ]
[ You Never Felt Like One Of Them ]
[ Would Be Your Own Wife ]

[ Now You Kind Of Think, “Oh Well … ” ]
[ “It Will Be Nice Getting Out Of That Hell!” ]

[ Try To Remain Strong ]
[ The Hard Days, Might Feel Long ]

[ But @ The End Of The Tunnel, You See Light ]
[ Now, There Will Be No More Nights ]
[ That End In A Fight ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(562)▪︎[ No Sleeping … 7-8-2021 ]

[ As You Listen To The Loud Tik Tok ]
[ Of The Wall Clock ]

[ You Wish For One Single Night That You Could Be Like A Normal Person ]
[ You Would Want The Sleepy Version ]

[ The Kind That Could Go To Sleep Before 0500hrs In The Night ]
[ The Version Where You Would Not Have To Put Up A Fight ]

[ To Get A Night Of Deep ]
[ Sleep ]
[ Without Hearing A Single Peep ]

[ You Would Take Your Liquid Knock-Out Sleeping Med ]
[ Then You Just Wait Until It Messes With Your Head ]

[ It Is The Kind Of Med That Knocks You Senseless ]
[ But It Also Leaves You Completely Defenseless ]

[ Less Is More ]
[ & More Puts You Face Down On The Floor ]
[ Left To Be Victimized By Whomever Shall Come In That Door ]

[ You Had A Premonition Years Ago That He Was Destined To Do You Harm ]
[ That Was From Years Ago When He Attempted To Hurt Your Arm ]

[ He Cannot Dictate Whether You Take Your Sleep Med @ Night ]
[ You Cannot Control If He Wanted To Come In & Fight ]

[ To Protect Yourself From Death ]
[ You Would Fight Him Until Your Last Breath ]

[ So There Is Alot Of Things @ Night That Make You Worry ]
[ There Are Alot Of Things That Cause Sleep To Not Arrive In A Hurry ]

[ You Sometimes Have To Watch The Clock As 0100hrs, 0300hrs & 0400hrs Goes By ]
[ You Sit Or Lay There Wondering, “Why?” ]

[ Why Can’t You Be One Of Those Lucky Guys? ]
[ Who Can Go To Sleep, Just By Closing Their Eyes ]

[ Even When You Are Able To Fall Asleep, It Is Never Restful Or Good ]
[ You Guess The Word, “Sleep” In Your Brain Was Misunderstood ]

[ As You Sit For Awhile ]
[ You Look @ The Ceiling ]
[ Then You Look Down @ The Cold Tile ]

[ You Only Have The Power ]
[ To Sleep For Five Or Six Hours ]

[ When You Wake ]
[ You Feel Tired ]
[ & Your Muscles Ache ]

[ Those Are The Times When You Wish That You Had Never Closed Your Eyes In The First Place ]
[ Sometimes You Feel That All Of The Effort Is A Waste ]

[ You No Longer Like Going To Bed ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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