(953)▪︎[ The Silence … 11•10•2021 ]

[ After You Spilled Out How You Were Feeling ]
[ You Were Talking About How You Were Dealing ]

[ With Your Life ]
[ With Your Kids ]
[ & With Your Wife ]

[ What Almost Started A Second Of Violence ]
[ Was After You Really Talked To Your Friend From The Heart ]
[ Her Response ]
[ Her Reply ]
[ All That Was Said … Was Silence ]

[ Not A Single Word ]
[ Was Uttered ]
[ Or Heard ]

[ With You Thinking That She Had Been Your Best Friend Not
Just For Years, But For Decades ]
[ When You Were A Much Younger Age ]

[ She Pushed You Through Some Of Your Hardest Years ]
[ You Have Held Her Up ]
[ When You Helped Her Face Her Fears ]

[ You Have Been Through Thick & Thin ]
[ When Things Were Not The Fashion ]
[ But Letting Her Know What (WAS IN) ]

[ When She Answered You With Silence, You Were Floored ]
[ You Wanted To Run To The Door ]

[ Except You Were In Your Own Home ]
[ Why She Did That, Will Never Be Known ]

[ You Could Not Bring Yourself To Open Your Mouth, To
Talk ]
[ You Had Nothing, After You Balked ]

[ The Silence Was Deafening ]
[ The Silence Was Threatening ]

[ What To Do? ]
[ What To Do? ]
[ Right Now, You Don’t Know What To Do ]

[ So You Left ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(881)▪︎[ Silence Is Best @ Times … 10•18•2021 ]

[ Someone Once Said (TO BE SILENT IS TO BE ENSLAVED) ]
[ Does That Also Mean (IF YOU ARE SILENT, YOU ARE WELL
     BEHAVED?) ]

[ You Don’t Always Believe That When You Are Silent, You
     Are A Slave ]
[ You Are Not Always Loud When There Is Something You
     Crave ]

[ Sometimes Silence Could Actually Be The Answer To A
     Question Or Situation ]
[ Sometimes It Comes From Major Irritation ]

[ Sometimes Silence Is The Best Thing You Could Hear ]
[ You Never Want An Argument Starting Near ]

[ You Could Get Silence From Anyone ]
[ Depending On The Situation ]
[ Silence Could Say A Ton ]

[ You Could Think That You Are Being Ignored ]
[ It Could Also Mean That The Person That Was Being Silent ]
[ Could Have Bored ]

[ Not Everyone Has Something To Say ]
[ Or Some Could Be Irritating In The Worst Way ]

[ Those People You Really Hope Would Remain Silent ]
[ Or Quiet ]

[ If You Don’t Have Anything Nice, Than Say Nothing @ All ]
[ Maybe, Better Luck On The Next Call ]

[ When Some People Say That They Want To Put Their (2)
     Cents In ]
[ You Want To Give Them Change Back ]
[ Then Ask Them If They Would Like To Try That Again? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(627)▪︎[ Making The Silence Last … 7•28•2021 ]

[ When You Look In The Mirror What Do You See? ]
[ Do You See The Person ]
[ That You Always Hoped You Could Be? ]

[ Why Can’t You See What Others Can See In You? ]
[ Is It Because You Don’t Want To? ]

[ Why Not? ]
[ Is It Tough Being Put On The Spot? ]
[ Is It That Hard To Re-Evaluate What You’ve Got? ]

[ Others See Your Potential ]
[ They Have Said That How You Go Through Life Has
Been Influential ]

[ To Others That Are Where You Came From ]
[ Show Others That Are Quiet ]
[ Not Dumb ]

[ Sometimes Silence Is The Best Answer That Was Never
Said ]
[ Sometimes Let Your Silence Get In Their Head ]

[ So Much So ]
[ They Become Lost ]
[ Making Things Seem, That Now They Don’t Know ]

[ What They Are Talking About ]
[ Leave Their Heads Swimming In Doubt ]

[ Maybe Next Time They Won’t Come @ You So Fast ]
[ That Is How Can Make Being Silent Really Last ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(109)▪︎[ Sometimes Silence Is Best … 2•1•2021 ]

[ @ Times It Seems Like We Live In Such A Hateful
     World ]
[ Where People Are Not Too Nice To Each Other ]
[ We Use So Many Words ]
[ That We Would Never Say In Front Of Our Mother ]

[ If We Did, We Would Get Slapped In The Face ]
[ Then Put In Our Place ]

[ People Forget That Words Can Slice ]
[ Deeper Than A Sharp Knife ]

[ & The Scars That Are So Deep ]
[ Are The Ones That We Keep ]

[ A Cut On The Knee ]
[ Has Never Hurt As Much As The Cuts That Nobody
    Can See ]

[ People Always Have A Choice ]
[ About The Words They Say, When They Use Their Voice ]

[ Oftentimes The Words That You Have Heard In
      The Past ]
[ Are The Memories That Last ]

[ Blurring The Memories Where You Used Your
     Sight ]
[ But Not Forgetting What Was Said During Your Last Fight ]

[ Words That Are Said ]
[ Get Stuck In The Other Person’s Head ]

[ & Harder To Forget ]
[ Then Remembering How You First Met ]

[ Some People You Meet ]
[ Don’t Turn Out To Be A Treat ]
[ That Is When You Realize ]
[ That In Some Situations, Silence Can’t Be Beat ]

~ The End ~

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