(001)▪︎[ Modern Society … 2025 ]

What would you change about modern society?

[ I Feel The ‘VID’19 Was The Worst Thing To Happen To Our Society As A Whole ]

[ Nobody Trusts Anyone ]

[ We Are A Very Fractured Society ]

[ People Grouping & Labeling Others ]

[ By Gender, Sexual Preference, Race, Heritage, Politics, Religious Beliefs … ]

[ To Some, We Are No Longer Male Or Female Because They Want That Line Blurred. Like Washing Away The Line That Was Drawn In The Sand. ]

[ People Labeling You A Republican Or A Democrat. That Is NOT What People Are, That Is The Political Party That They Vote For ]

[ Everyone Wants To Be An Individual, On An Island. No Longer Part Of Anything. People Marking “Other” On Forms ]

[ But Then Wanting To Be Treated As An Equal, But Then Equal To Who. People Want To Be So Different Than Others, Then They Don’t ]

(022)▪︎[ Disgusting Society … 2023 ]

[ You Feel Saddened With The Direction That Society Is Going ]
[ It Only Seems Like Progress Is Slowing ]

[ From What You See, P.C. Is All That Matters ]
[ Your Whole Perception Of What Is Normal ]
[ Has Been Shattered ]

[ Violence Is Now Respected ]
[ Disrespect Is Now Expected ]

[ How Does Society Get Back ]
[ On The Right Track? ]

[ You Can No Longer Greet Strangers With A Smile ]
[ It Has Been Like This For A Very Long While ]

[ Sometimes A Nice Woman Will Smile & Her Eyes Express It ]
[ But That Is Tough To Get ]

[ Strangers Do Not Want Anything To Do With Each Other ]
[ Kids No Longer Go Out & Play ]
[ They Are Inside, Staying Close To Their Mother ]

[ @ Times The Downtown Streets Have Only A Single Car ]
[ Nobody On The Sidewalks ]
[ You Always Know Where They Are ]

[ In The Garage Or Under The Carport ]
[ The Little Kids Are Inside ]
[ Using Blankets To Build Their Fort ]

[ Turning The Streets Into A Ghost Town ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(993)▪︎[ Nobody In Society Would … 11•23•2021 ]

[ Is It Possible To Have Peace Out In Our Society ]
[ When Some People Seek Notoriety ]

[ They Make Their Monetary Gain ]
[ Through Others Pain ]

[ They Care Nothing For Others ]
[ They Would Even Use Their Sisters & Brothers ]

[ Climbing Financial Hurdles By Going Over Their Subordinates
     Backs ]
[ They Don’t Care Who They Bowl Over During Their Attacks ]

[ Taking Over Companies Then Selling The Pieces Off ]
[ Not Caring Who Gets Lost ]

[ About 3% Of The Population Actually Controls What
     People Do, Eat Or Buy ]
[ That’s Why Alot Of People Thinks (THE AMERICAN DREAM )
     Is A Lie ]

[ Most Of Society Cannot Afford To Get A House ]
[ Even When They Take Their Paycheck & They Combine It With Their
     Spouse ]

[ Starting A Business Now ]
[ Does Not Come With Instructions About How ]

[ Some Just Wouldn’t ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(692)▪︎[ Society Is … ? … 8•13•2020 ]

[ Whicky, Whicky, Whacky ]
[ Everything Is So Tacky ]

[ Society Is Going To Hell In A Hand Basket ]
[ They Are Disregarding A Regular Caskett ]

[ People Are Shooting Each Other In The Streets ]
[ When A Family Has No Money ]
[ Nobody Eats ]

[ The Rich Politicians Are Trying To Decide Our Fate ]
[ They Have Never Gone To Bed Starving ]
[ Because That Day They Never Ate ]

[ These Fat Cats Gets Their Food Served To Them On
Silver Platters ]
[ They Look @ All The Peasants ]
[ & Don’t Know What Really Matters ]

[ It Has Always Been Right There ]
[ That Sly Smile ]
[ That Tells You That They Really Don’t Care ]

[ They Got Elected By Making Promises Part Of Their Platform ]
[ They Never Follow Through ]
[ Because That Is The Norm ]

[ Once They Are Elected, They Are Financially Set For Life ]
[ That Definitely Is Appreciated ]
[ By Their Spoiled Children & Trophy Wife ]

[ It Must Be Nice ]
[ To Not Live Off The Menu ]
[ Of Water & Boiled Rice ]

[ They Have Never Been Without ]
[ So When It Comes To Need ]
[ They Have No Clue What They Are Talking About ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(275)▪︎[ Just Another Day In Paradise … 3•18•2020 ]

[ Would It Be Considered Controversial? ]
[ To Think That Society ]
[ Has To Go Through It’s Day Being So Impersonal? ]

[ Can We Touch Without Being Touched? ]
[ Can A Boxer Win ]
[ Without Getting Punched? ]

[ Sometimes Questions Come Up That Has No Answer ]
[ There Are Unexplained ]
[ Causes For Cancer ]

[ But We Search For The Unexplainable ]
[ The Impossible ]

[ We Want To Make Sense Of It All ]
[ When You’re Perplexed ]
[ Who Do You Want To Call? ]

[ Mom Or Dad? ]
[ Tom Or Chad? ]

[ What If None Of Them Are Around? ]
[ Both Of My Dad & Mom ]
[ Are In The Ground ]

[ Now You Can’t Walk Outside To Go Downtown ]
[ There’s Barely Another Person ]
[ To Be Found ]

[ Look Up Center Street ]
[ Or Go Down State A Few Feet ]

[ The World As We Knew It Six Months Ago ]
[ Is Gone ]
[ Is This A Slow ]
[ Con? ]

[ Brought About Because Of A Master Conspiracy? ]
[ What’s Your Theory? ]

[ Is This The Armageddon? The Apocalypse? ]
[ Or Nature’s Form Of A Time-Out? ]
[ Is This Ever Going To Make Sense? ]
[ This, Is One Of Those Things That I Doubt ]

[ Are You The Type ]
[ To Believe The Hype? ]

[ Or Do You Only Act? ]
[ On The Facts? ]

[ Whatever The Choice ]
[ Don’t Use Your Voice ]
[ Just To Cause Noise ]

[ But Hey, I’ve Never Pretended To Teach ]
[ Or Preach ]

[ But My Life Is Mine ]
[ & Your Life Is Yours ]
[ I Think We Will All Do Fine ]
[ Behind Our Own Doors ]
[ & If Our Lives Intertwine ]
[ By Sharing The Same Floor ]

[ We All Have Our Role To Play ]
[ So Let’s Find A Way ]
[ To @ Least Have A Pleasant Day ]
[ Okay? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(570)▪︎[ If There Is Bias, There Should Be Silence … 6•19•2020 ]

[ Prejudice In Any Form ]
[ Should Not Be The Norm ]
[ Or Put Out There ]
[ For Others To Perform ]

[ Either Because Of Height, Weight Or The Color Of
Your Face ]
[ There Should Never Be A Time Or Place ]
[ For Someone To Be Biased Because Of Your Race ]

[ But Others Think That It Is Quite Alright ]
[ To Make Fun Of Someone’s Height ]
[ Why Or How ]
[ Can That Be Right? ]

[ Height Or Race Was Never A Choice ]
[ Being That Tall Or That Color ]
[ The Person Had No Voice ]

[ If You Do Think That They Did, Then What Was Said? ]
[ The Conversation Was Not Just In That Person’s Head ]
[ Was Something Else Heard Instead? ]

[ Weight Is A Whole Different Conversation Altogether ]
[ Losing Weight ]
[ Can’t Change Like The Oregon Weather ]

[ Most Everything Is Off Limits Except If You Are Not On
The Tall Side ]
[ That’s When You Get Comments That Are Hurtful & Snide ]

[ People Should Not Be Hurtful Or Biased Towards Each Other ]
[ Not Every Woman Is Your Sister Or Mother ]
[ But You Can Treat Other Men ]
[ As Well As You Would Treat Or Welcome Him As A Brother ]

[ To Help Everyone Cope ]
[ Don’t Treat Anybody Like A Dope ]
[ On Any Scope ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(128)▪︎[ When? … 2•7•2021 ]

[ How Do We, As A Whole Society, Ever Go Back To Being
     Civil To Each Other, Again? ]
[ If We Haven’t Already Started ]
[ When Can We Begin? ]

[ We Just Don’t Say Anything To Strangers Anymore ]
[ When We Get Packages Delivered To Our House ]
[ The Drivers Don’t Even Knock On The Door ]

[ If My Dog Didn’t Start To Bark ]
[ I Would Had Never Known ]
[ That A Delivery Truck Drove Up & Parked ]

[ There Is No Longer Conversing With Others Face To Face ]
[ We Are Now A Masked Human Race ]

[ When A Stranger Comes Near You There Is No Such
     Thing As A Nod Or A Smile ]
[ We No Longer Stop & Talk For Awhile ]

[ No Emotion Seen Through The Eyes That Peer Out Over
     The Top ]
[ If You Go Within Anothers 6 Feet Of Space ]
[ You Are Immediately Told To ( STOP! ) ]

[ Nobody Smiles, Grins Or Frowns ]
[ No More Traveling To Other Towns ]

[ No More Leisurely Drives ]
[ All Over The News Every Day ]
[ Are Broadcasts About The Total Loss Of Lives ]

[ Anyone, Any Stranger, Can Be A Killer By Being A Carrier Of
     The ‘VID ]
[ Maybe They Never Realized That They Got Infected By Their Kid ]

[ A Killer That No Longer Shoots Or Stabs ]
[ They Are Killing Others By Passing On A Deadly Virus That Is
     Being Studied In Labs ]

[ The Scientists Are Trying To Find A Vaccine For A Virus Before
     It Kills Us ]
[ Then Coming Up With A Vaccine That We Can Trust ]
[ People Coming By Car Or Bus ]
[ Being Told That Being Vaccinated Is Becoming A Must ]

[ But Right Now They Are Vaccinating Inmates ]
[ Before The Rest Of The Majority Of The Rest Of The
     Population ]
[ So Most Of Us Have To Wait ]
[ For Our Vaccination ]

[ What Kind Of Hurts ]
[ Is That Some People Are Getting Their Second Shots ]
[ Before Some Of Us Have Received Our First ]

[ That Is Not Fair ]
[ But Most Of Those Don’t Care ]

~ The End ~

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

(893)▪︎[ Some Never Change … 10•24•2020 ]

[ The Eyes Are Useless When The Mind Is Blind ]
[ They Can’t Help You See ]
[ That Your Actions @ The Moment Will Put You In
A Bind ]

[ A Closed Mind Will Never Let You Hear ]
[ When Something That Used To Be So Far Away ]
[ Is Now Very Near ]

[ When You Have Those Times When You Think That The
World Stops @ The Tip Of Your Nose ]
[ You Will Find Out That The Consequences You Get ]
[ May Be The Results Of The Choices That You Chose ]

[ On This Path That You Are Now Walking On ]
[ Life Can Become Fragile & Temporary ]
[ You Could Wake Up One Morning & All That You Have
Grown To Love Is Now All Gone ]

[ Maybe @ The Fork In The Road In Your Life ]
[ You Hastily Decided To Go Left ]
[ Before Everyone Else Went Right ]

[ It Is Not So Much That You Took The Easier Low Road ]
[ But It Seemed @ Times ]
[ That You Made Everyone Around You See That You Hardly
Ever Pulled Your Own Load ]

[ Society Knows That They Are A Social Bunch ]
[ Always Loving Companionship For Dinner, Breakfast Or
Lunch ]

[ A Possible Reason Why Society Is Bitter, Anti-Social & Mean ]
[ May Be Because This Virus ]
[ Made Everybody Self Quarantine ]

[ Social Deprivation Can Have Very Harmful Effects]
[ It Can Cause Some People To Disrespect ]
[ Others That They Suspect ]

[ That May Have Contracted & Spread The COVID-19
Deadly Virus ]
[ That Is Harming & Killing Us ]

[ With A Closed Mind, So Goes Your Vision ]
[ A Closed Mind Can Also Cause Division ]

[ Amongst The Family & Friends That Would Always
Stand By Your Side ]
[ Would It Affect Your Pride ]
[ When You Found Out Who Had Constantly Lied ]

[ To Your Face? ]

[ If You Were Not Sure ]
[ Who They Were ]

[ Would You Want To Know Which Girl, Which Guy? ]
[ If So, Why? ]

[ When The Water Gets Turbulent For The Fair Weathered
Friends They Are The First One’s To Bail ]
[ They Will No Longer Return Your Calls ]
[ Or Respond To Your Numerous, Inquiring Emails ]

[ They Will Look & Find ]
[ The Smallest Reasons ]
[ To Erase The Thoughts About You In Their Mind ]
[ & Then Become Devoid Of All Compassion ]
[ As They Decide To Leave You Behind ]

[ You Will Feel That Their Mind Has Shut Off & Shut Down ]
[ So Where Once Your Eyes Saw Pretty Colors ]
[ All They See Now Is Grays & Browns ]

[ But Do Not Lower Yourself & Walk In Their Footsteps ]
[ & Then Do That To Others ]
[ Because You Know How It Feels To Be Left ]
[ By Your Mother & Brothers ]

[ A Closed Mind Prevents You From Growing Throughout
The Upcoming Days, Months & Years ]
[ It Is Not A Guarantee That A Closed Mind Protects You
From The Shedding Of Tears ]

[ Open Your Mind & Eyes Then Take The Headphones Off
Of Your Ears ]
[ & Your Head ]
[ Then Make A Stand To Listen To What Is Said Right Here ]
[ Instead ]

[ Of Trying To Listen To What Is Going On Over There ]
[ For If It Involved You]
[ You Would Hope That They Would Share ]
[ It With You, Too ]

[ Don’t Say ( NOPE ) ]
[ & Jump Ship ]
[ Because You Felt There Was No Hope ]

[ Some People With A Closed Mind Will Stand There For
Awhile ]
[ & Give You Their Best Smile ]
[ All The While ]
[ Wondering What Is Going On Down The Road About A Mile ]

[ Then You Come To Realize Some Close Minded People
Never Intend To Change ]
[ They Feel In Their Mind That Would Be Doing Something
Extremely Strange ]

[ That Is When You Decide To Rearrange Your Priorities
& Make Better Use Of Your Effort & Time ]
[ If You Choose To Put One More Minute Into Them ]
[ That Would Be The Most Egregious Crime ]

~ The End ~

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

(808)▪︎[ Where Is Society Going? … 9•22•2020 ]

[ Wow ]
[ When? ]
[ Right About Now! ]

[ Society ]
[ I’ve Been Seeing, Hearing & Reading ]
[ Is Speeding Right By Me ]

[ People Want To Share A Whole Bunch About Themselves ]
[ With Everyone Else ]

[ Who Knew ]
[ That I Could Read Your License Plate & Bumper Stickers
On Your Car ]
[ & Then Know So Much About You? ]

[ Is One Of Your Stickers Saying How Many Are In Your Family ]
[ For All To See? ]

[ That You Have A Dog & What Kind ]
[ Other Stickers Of Your Opinion ]
[ & What Is On Your Mind? ]
[ Seeing Who You Will Vote For Is Always A Good Find ]

[ Tonight I Got A Shock ]
[ When I Leisurely Went On ( TIK TOK ) ]
[ There Wasn’t A Woman Dancing Or Out On A Walk ]
[ I Saw Messages Scroll Up On The Screen ]
[ As She Talked ]

[ When Did Things Go From Showing Some One Dancing
& Being Active ]
[ Now They Talk To Whomever Is Typing ]
[ & Being Interactive ]

[ But Then She Pulled Out A Barbeque Lighter So She Could
Smoke Something Just To The Side Of The Screen ]
[ Now I’ve Been Around Drugs ]
[ Since My Early Teens ]

[ I Never Thought I Had ]
[ An App ]
[ That Does That ]

~ The End ~

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

(854)▪︎[ How Is It Now? … 10•8•2020 ]

[ Have We Now As A Society Made Love & Compassion ]
[ Out Of Fashion? ]

[ You Never Want To Be Seen ]
[ Wearing Your Heart On Your Sleeve ]
[ Being Afraid That Someone Would Be So Mean ]
[ Making It So Uncomfortable That You Would Want To Leave ]

[ Leaving The Situation Behind You ]
[ Because You Picked Up On That Obvious Social Cue ]

[ Society As A Whole ]
[ Has Lost Touch With It’s Soul ]
[ Making It So Hard ]
[ To Figure Out Your Role ]

[ You Can’t Tell If That Stranger With The Mask Is Happy Or Sad ]
[ Is Their Day Going Well? ]
[ Or Have Things Started Going Bad? ]

[ Most People Do Not Have Smiling Eyes ]
[ Some People Hide Behind A Mountain Of Lies ]

[ So There Are No Facial Expressions To Read ]
[ There Is No Look To See ]
[ If Someone Is In Need ]

[ People Used To Acknowledge Others With A Smile & A Nod
Of Their Head ]
[ Now They Stay Motionless Instead ]

[ Nobody Smiles Or Says ( HI ) ]
[ Some People Take Offense If You Look @ Them Eye To Eye ]

[ Some Take That As Being Aggressive ]
[ But If You Look Down Are You Being Submissive? ]

[ So People Don’t Look @ All ]
[ They Would Much Rather Look @ A Blank Wall ]

[ Look @ The Cracks On The Wall Instead Of The Wrinkles On
Someone’s Face ]
[ & Never Assume Someone’s Age, Gender Or Race ]
[ Anonymity Has Taken Identities Place ]

[ Who Was That Masked Man Standing To Your Right? ]
[ Would You Be Able To Tell If There Was Better Light? ]

[ How Is Society Going To Come Back Together After This
Particular Tumultuous & Polarizing Election? ]
[ Who Is Going To Lead & Point Us In The Right Direction? ]
[ Will Society Ever Have The Same Connection? ]

[ We Have Emotionless Faces ]
[ Anger Between Some Races ]
[ & In The World ]
[ We Are Not Allowed To Travel In Some Places ]

[ Does Wearing A Mask Protect Others From You ]
[ Or You From Others ]
[ If You Caught The Virus Too ]
[ Would You Then Care If You Infected Your Mother? ]

[ Everybody Makes Their Own Individual Choices ]
[ Then Don’t Care About Other People’s Voices ]

[ People Used To Be Happier & Relaxed ]
[ Now More People Are Mad & Feel Taxed ]

[ Now Showing Emotion Comes Across As Being Weak ]
[ & You Come Across As Being Meek ]

[ But For What It’s Worth ]
[ Isn’t It Written Somewhere ( THAT THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT
THE EARTH )? ]~ The End ~

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