[ Throuughout The Years You Have Tried To Shout ]
[ From The Inside Out ]

[ That Your Heart Has Been Scarred ]
[ & You Your Self-Confidence ]
[ Has Been Charred ]

[ Like A Piece Of Steak That Was Forgotten On The Outside Barbecue ]
[ Even If Given To The Dog ]
[ She Wouldn’t Have A Clue ]
[ About What She Needed To Do ]

[ When Some Incidents Happen, They Don’t Fade Into The Past ]
[ Very Fast ]
[ Depending On The Severity Of The Incident ]
[ The Complete Memory Can Last & Last ]

[ Then ]
[ & When ]
[ This Begins To Happen ]

[ Your World Is Then Turned Upside Down ]
[ You Walk Around Town ]
[ With A Permanent Frown ]
[ Feeling Like You Look Like A Crying Clown ]

[ Not Worthy Of A Single Shiny Dime ]
[ Not Worth Anyone’s Time ]
[ Feeling Like The Only Way That You Could Ever Get Noticed ]
[ Would Be If You Committed Some Really Violent Crime ]

[ You Don’t Have The Talent Or The Looks ]
[ To Write Stories ]
[ Or Get Noticed In Any Kind Of Fashion Magazine Or Book ]

[ There Is No Such Thing As A Copywrite Law For Failure ]
[ Not With Your Short Stature ]
[ You Can Only Get Noticed As Being The Smallest Biggest Complainer ]

[ You Try, Try & Try ]
[ Sometimes You Ask Yourself, “Why?” ]
[ “Is It Only In An Attempt To Just Get By?” ]
[ Has Everything You’ve Been Telling Yourself In The Last (31yrs) Been One Big Lie? ]

[ What About The Lies That You Have Been Told By Others? ]
[ Especially By People That Want You To Look @ Them ]
[ As Fathers Or Mothers! ]

[ It Was Made Perfectly Clear ]
[ That After A Few Days, A Week Or Even A Couple Of Years ]
[ They No Longer Wanted You Near ]

[ Wherever That May Be ]
[ You Lost Your First Set Even Before You Turned (3) ]
[ & This Last Set Before You Turned (62) ]
[ All Of Your Parental Units Just Wanted To Be Free ]
[ They Should Have Dropped Some Kind Of Clue ]

[ So Here You Remain ]
[ You Saw, You Are Here & Then You Came ]
[ All Through The (3) Parental Units ]
[ You Foolishly Changed Your Name ]
[ Now You See Life As One Big Game ]
[ Try As Hard As You Could ]
[ But The Outcome Remains The Same ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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