[336]▪︎[ Sea Of Tranquility … 5•7•2022 ]

[ I Was Lost On The Sea Of Tranquility ]
[ I Had No Oar Or Motor ]
[ There Was No Ability ]

[ To Get To An Island ]
[ Or Dry Sand ]

[ Water ]
[ & Falter ]

[ Surrounded Me ]
[ It Seemed That All I Could See ]
[ Was The Sea ]

[ I Do Not Normally Give Up On Something Without A Fight ]
[ But I Could Not See Any Help In Sight ]

[ When I Had No Oar ]
[ I Could Not Paddle For ]

[ Or In Any Direction ]
[ When You Are On The Ocean ]
[ It Is Hard To Make Corrections ]

[ When In The The Calm, You Are A Sitting Duck ]
[ When The Big Waves Come ]
[ You Are Totally Fucked ]

[ You Are @ The Mercy Of Nature ]
[ So There Are So Many Situations Where You Are Not So Sure ]

[ Right Now, The Sky Is Incredibly Blue ]
[ All Of Those Stories About The Ocean Sky’s Were True ]

[ It Is The Water Where You Must Show Concern ]
[ Even If The Sun Is The Natural Thing That Will Burn ]

[ What Are Your Plans ]
[ Once You Get Back To Land? ]

[ When? ]
[ What About If? ]
[ & If Then? ]

[ How Do You Not Get Into This Predicament Again? ]
[ How Can You Tell If It Is Starting To Begin? ]

[ Once You Put Your First Foot In That Specific Boat? ]
[ Do You Yell (WHOA!) ]

[ Words Are Going To Stop You? ]
[ Says Who? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(048)▪︎[ The Ocean Just Takes … 1•13•2020 ]

[ The Ocean Rarely Relinquishes What It Takes ]
[ Sometimes Widows Are What It Makes ]

[ When You Turn Your Back On The King Tide ]
[ It Will Take Your Feet Out From Under You ]
[ & Then Take You For A Ride ]
[ Whoever Told You That The Ocean Is Harmless ]
[ Looked You Straight In The Eyes & Lied ]

[ Another Victim, Another Day ]
[ Be Naive About The Power Of The Ocean ]
[ & It Could Sweep You Away ]

[ @ Times The Water Is So Calm & Low ]
[ You Say ]
[ Hiding With The Next Wave Is An Undertow ]
[ That Might Be Today ]

[ You Don’t See The Undertow, Until It Grabs You By The Feet ]
[ Before You Know It, You’re Knocked Down On To Your Seat ]
[ Swim Hard Against It ]
[ Before You Give In To Defeat ]

[ Today Two Children Lost Their Lives After Being Taken From
Their Father’s Arms ]
[ Oh The Water Is So Calm & Shallow ]
[ Playing In The Waves Will Bring No Harm ]

[ A Sneaker Wave Came Out Of The Blue ]
[ It Almost Had Three Lives ]
[ But Then Settled On Two ]

[ The Father Was Saved But The Son & Daughter Wasn’t ]
[ In Regular Water The Body’s Would Be Given Back ]
[ But The Ocean Doesn’t ]

[ The Ocean Waves Could Be Called A Thief ]
[ By Stealing Two Children’s Lives ]
[ & Creating A Lifetime Of Grief ]

[ That Some ]
[ Families ]
[ Never Recover From ]
[ The Father Will Probably Forever Be Numb ]

[ Oh, The Water Is Calm ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1165)▪︎[ Down By The Ocean … 9•16•2019 ]

[ When You Close Your Eyes, What Do You See? ]
[ Are You Playing In The Sand? ]
[ @ The Edge Of The Sea? ]
[ You See Someone Running Towards You ]
[ & You Begin To Wonder (WHO CAN THAT BE?) ]

[ Then In The Blink Of Your Eye ]
[ There’s No More Guy ]
[ But, You Didn’t See Him Run Right By ]

[ So Where Did He Go? ]
[ He Wasn’t Going Slow ]

[ But He Wasn’t Going All That Fast ]
[ He Didn’t Run Past ]

[ You ]
[ Who? ]

[ Was He? ]
[ Why Can’t You See ]

[ Him, Anymore? ]
[ Did He Disappear Through A Door? ]

[ But Why Would A Door Be On The Beach? ]
[ & Then Have The Doorknob Just Out Of Reach? ]

[ But If You Can’t Grasp It, How Could He? ]
[ It Just Goes To Show ]
[ Anything Can Happen Down By The Sea ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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