[ Tonight We All Went Out For A Birthday Dinner For
Our Son ]
[ He Turned (2) Years Prior Of (21) ]
[ The Food Was Good & Plenty ]
[ I Can’t Believe My Son Is (1) Year Shy Of (20) ]
[ We Had Good Laughs & Really Good Food ]
[ Nobody Said Or Did Anything That Was Misunderstood ]
[ BD Is Growing Up To Be Quite The Adult ]
[ I Hope He Won’t Go Wandering & Join A Cult ]
[ I Try My Best To Be A Good & Fair Dad ]
[ I Don’t Ever Try To Make Anyone Mad ]
[ He Has Kind Of Made It Known ]
[ That He Is Settling Nicely Into His New Home ]
[ He Has (2) Roommates Around The Same Age ]
[ So Far He Has Controlled His Rage ]
[ BD Seems To Have Found His Spot ]
[ (1) Of His Roommates Likes To Watch Movies ALOT! ]
[ When I Have Visited, It Seems To Be Clear ]
[ That They Have A Very Casual Atmosphere ]
[ It Gives Him Room & Time To Grow ]
[ & He Is Able To Get The Answers To Things That He Wants
To Get To Know ]
[ One Thing I Noticed While Sitting @ The Table ]
[ My Son Is Becoming Strong & Able ]
[ When It Comes To Food He Still Is As Picky As Ever ]
[ So When Can I See Him Eat A Small Dinner Salad? ]
[ I Am Sure The Answer To That Is … NEVER!! ]
[ I Am Sorry For This Kind Of Funny Jab ]
[ Hey When Will You Get A Good Paying Job? ]
[ So Next Time You Can Pick-Up The Tab? ]
[ I Am Sure That Will Come In Time ]
[ He Has Many Other Reasons To Save His Dimes ]
[ Well Last June He Crossed Off Graduating From High
School On His Long To-Do List ]
[ That Was Definitely Worth A Bump Of The Fist ]
[ But Right Now He Is Working & Taking (2) College Classes ]
[ He Needs To Keep His Eyes On His Homework ]
[ & Away From That Co-Ed That Is Batting Her Eyelashes ]
[ Nah, Maybe He Will Find A Girl Who Will Become Important In
His Life ]
[ But Hey Slow Down Now ]
[ He Is Way To Young To Make That First Girlfriend His Wife! ]
[ I Do Wish Someday That He Will Find As Great Of A Woman As I
Have Found In His Mom ]
[ After 25+ Years Of Marriage, I Still Think She’s Da Bomb! ]
[ I Do Hope That He Will Get Lucky Like That ]
[ Always Remember To Be Polite Around ALL Women By Giving
Them A Tip Of Your Hat ]
[ Well Son, It Was Good To Break Bread With You Tonight ]
[ Always Remember That I Love You ]
[ Everytime I Text You Goodnight ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(683)▪︎[ He Did Finally Move Out … 8•17•2021 ]
[ Getting Him Out Of Your House Became All-Consuming @
Times ]
[ When He Was About To Be Placed, You Found Out That You
Did Not Have Enough $’s & Dimes ]
[ Even With All Of His Strange Quirks ]
[ Everybody Knew That He Had To Go To Work ]
[ That Began To Be The Only Thing That You Were Thinking
About ]
[ You Were Stressing Because You Had ALOT Of Doubt ]
[ That He Would Never Move Out ]
[ He Would Have Never Moved Out On His Own ]
[ Even Though He Was (18) & Grown ]
[ It Became Perfectly Clear ]
[ Most Of The Time, You No Longer Wanted Him Living Here ]
[ You Know He Is Your Son ]
[ & You Love Him As One ]
[ But Then He Became Your Number (1) Agitator ]
[ & Your Number (1) Aggravator ]
[ He Aggravated You To No End ]
[ You Know, As The Father, You Are Supposed To Bend ]
[ But You Almost Broke ]
[ & He Could See That ]
[ Then All He Did Was Poke & Poke & Poke! ]
[ He Also Knew What Buttons To Push Down On, Hard ]
[ There Were Some Times When You Really Wanted To Go
Toe-to-Toe With Him In The Back Yard ]
[ Oh So Close ]
[ But You Did Not Grow Up To Be As Dumb As A Post ]
[ You Knew Where That Would Have Led ]
[ So You Used Your Head ]
[ Instead ]
[ You Had To Wait & Wait & Wait ]
[ You Have Been Disappointed So Many Times In Your Life ]
[ It Was Tough To Have Faith ]
[ You Are Not Disowning Your Son By Any Means ]
[ He Has Stolen From You So Many Times & Had Said So
Many Things ]
[ But Nobody Heard Your Screams! ]
[ But Now July 14th Is Being Named As Your Independence
Day ]
[ Someone Finally Heard You Say ]
[ (HE CAN’t LIVE HERE ANYMORE!) ]
[ He Needed To Be Shown The Other Side Of The Door ]
[ So He Was Doing Well @ His New House ]
[ & You Were Loving, Living With Just Your Spouse ]
[ When He Was Coming Over We Asked Him To Mow Our Small
Yard ]
[ While He Was Doing It ]
[ He Made A Simple Thing, Be So Hard! ]
[ Then He Exploded With Anger & Demanded To Be Taken Home ]
[ Once That Was Known ]
[ You Told Him Then, That Would Be What We Will Do ]
[ He Started Crying, Saying (I DIDN’t MEAN IT!) ]
[ You Wanted To Say (WELL BOO WHO WHO!) ]
[ You Have Always Told Him That There Is No Such Thing As
(TAKE-BACKS IN REAL LIFE!) ]
[ Especially Since He Did Not Say It Very Nice ]
[ It Was So Nice To Take Him & His Bad Attitude To A
Different Address ]
[ & Then You Do Not Have To Deal With His Mess ]
[ The First Visit Sure Did Sink Down The Drain ]
[ Pretty Quick ]
[ When His Anger Comes On Like A Run Away Train ]
[ You Won’t Have To Deal With Him Whenever He Starts
Being A D–k ]
[ Right Away On Any Visits, You Could Tell Him To His Face ]
[ That If He Gets An Attitude ]
[ You Can Quickly Return Him To His Own Place ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(207)▪︎[ Full Circle … 3•12•2021 ]
[ There Are Some Things In Life That Come Full Circle ]
[ It Is Like The Gamble You Take When You Put Your
Hand In The Bag ]
[ To Pull Out Some Good Tiles While You Are Playing
The Game Called Quircle ]
[ I Tried & Tried To Be Accepted By Don ]
[ I Never Knew If I Was Doing Good ]
[ But I Sure Found Out If I Was Doing Something Wrong ]
[ I Have Come @ My Son From Every Angle That I Know ]
[ The Results Don’t Come In Slow ]
[ They Quickly Fly Into My Face As A ( NO ) ]
[ When I Was Around Don I Would Always Hold My Tongue ]
[ But My Son Has Been Cursing @ Me Since He Was
Really Young ]
[ I Never Did Anything To Don That Would Have Given Him Any
Reason To Permanently Walk Away ]
[ My Son Gives Me Many Reasons To Walk, Many Times A Day ]
[ Don Walked Away Because He Was Miffed ]
[ I Have Never Gone Anywhere When I Have Been So Pissed ]
[ My Son Never Gives Me A Single Reason To Want To Stay ]
[ Some Days I Just Smile & Say ]
[ ( OKAY! ) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(601)▪︎[ What A Horrible Visit … 7•21•2021 ]
[ This Home Visit Was A Disaster From The Get-Go ]
[ The When, Was What We Did Not Know ]
[ So … ]
[ It Was Within The First (2) Hours ]
[ When Everything Went Sour ]
[ Then His Actions & Words Reminded His Mom About Why
He Was Moved ]
[ He Came Here To Knock Me Out Of My Groove ]
[ When He Turned Into A Problem ]
[ I Would Not Let Him! ]
[ To Continue On This Path ]
[ He Was Making As Much Sense ]
[ As Trigonometry Math ]
[ When He Demanded That We Take Him Home ]
[ My Reaction Was Soon To Be Shown ]
[ I Told Him ( OKAY, LET’s GO! ) ]
[ He Counted On Me Saying ( NO! ) ]
[ The Way That I Was In The Past ]
[ I Knew Could Not Last ]
[ He Used To Leave Footprints On My Back ]
[ A Straight, Solid Spine Is What I Lacked ]
[ So Into My Life Came This Strong Willed, Stubborn & No
Nonsense Caregiver For Me ]
[ She Really Taught Me How Things SHOULD Be ]
[ One Time Her Grandson Stole Her Credit Card ]
[ She Did Not Just Dismiss It Because He Was A Kid ]
[ No, She Let The Justice System Come Down On Him,
Really Hard ]
[ I Listened & Learned From This Woman Who Seemed So Wise ]
[ This Woman Does Not Bullshit Through Her Life ]
[ Or Let Anybody Get Over On Her By Telling A Handful Of Lies ]
[ She Taught Me Well ]
[ She Told Me To Use My Five Senses ]
[ Especially My Sense Of Smell ]
[ If A Situation Smells Like Bullshit, It Probably Is ]
[ & To Never Get Bent Out Of Shape ]
[ From An Occasional Diss ]
[ But B.D. Loved To Test My Patience To No End ]
[ Now When He Does Something That I Don’t Like ]
[ I Know Longer Pretend ]
[ That Something He Did Does Not Bother Me Now ]
[ When I React With A ( WOW! ) ]
[ ( WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS RIGHT HERE? ) ]
[ I No Longer React With A Submissive ( OH DEAR ) ]
[ Maybe He Does Not Like This Straight, Strong Spine ]
[ Of Mine ]
[ It Has Been Rough ]
[ Being On The Path, To Becoming This Tough ]
[ When I Kept Saying That It Was Time For Him To Say
( BYE-BYE ) ]
[ All He Did Was Sit There & Cry ]
[ When I Went Near Him & Asked ( WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT? ) ]
[ He Would Stop & Shout ]
[ ( I WANT TO HAVE A DO-OVER! ) ]
[ When I Would Say ( THEY DO NOT EXIST IN REAL LIFE )
He Would Pout ]
[ Then I Said ( THIS IS THE REASON WHY YOU WERE MOVED
OUT! ) ]
[ I Kept Moving Him Towards The Door ]
[ I Kept Telling Him ( DON’t BRING YOUR DRAMA HERE
ANYMORE ) ]
[ He Thought He Could Come Here To Throw A Rock Into Our
Calm Pond ]
[ That, Right Then & There ]
[ Was When His Thinking Went Wrong ]
[ He Quickly Found ]
[ That His Thinking Errors Were Abound ]
[ & One Thing That He Did Not Figure On ]
[ Was That I Would Stand My Ground ]
[ We Were Finally Able To Drive Him Back To Where He Now
Lives ]
[ When He Comes Here ]
[ He Still Has No Respect To Give ]
[ But He Can Now Take His Circus Act On The Road ]
[ Because Of His Temper ]
[ This Visit Was Blown ]
[ Better Luck Next Time ]
[ So Be On The Look-Out For Another Rhyme ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(116)▪︎[ Today’s Youth … 2•7•2020 ]
[ Has This Generations Youth ]
[ Ever Been Honest & Told The Truth? ]
[ Not To Sound Cranky & Mean ]
[ But Those Instances Are Few & Far In-Between ]
[ He Blames Me, The Adult ]
[ For His Behavior ]
[ & Problems That Are All His Fault ]
[ I Didn’t Raise Him To Curse @ Me ]
[ Also, This Is Far From What I Would Have Wanted Him To Be ]
[ After Years & Years Of Using Words To Cut ]
[ I Have Learned When & Where To Keep My Mouth Shut ]
[ Oh I Could Slice Him To Pieces ]
[ In Front Of My Nephews & Nieces ]
[ Where Would That Get Me By Treating Him That Way? ]
[ On That Day? ]
[ All It Would Get Me Is An Attack ]
[ As All Of The Other Adults Would Talk Smack ]
[ & I Would Get Nothing That I Care To Hear From Him ]
[ As He Talked Back ]
[ Day-In & Day-Out ]
[ I Get Nothing From The Words That He Shouts ]
[ His 18th Birthday Can’t Get Here Soon Enough ]
[ I Would Really Like To Say { PACK YOUR STUFF } ]
[ & Then Off! ]
[ & Take Your Bad-Ass Self ]
[ & Go Live With Someone & Somewhere Else ]
[ See How Fast Some Other People Will Force You Out Because
You Are Not Pulling Your Own Weight ]
[ They Will Probably Give You A Specific Date ]
[ To Get Your Act Together & Do What Needs To Be Done ]
[ Because They Are Probably Not Having Much Fun ]
[ Maybe One Of Them ]
[ Might Pull A Gun ]
[ There Will Not Be Someone Picking Up After You ]
[ & Because You’ll Have A Roommate Or Two ]
[ Who’ll Get Tired Doing What You Are Supposed To Do? ]
[ One Of Your Biggest Wishes ]
[ Will Not Be Always Skipping The Responsibility ]
[ When It’s Your Time To Do The Dishes ]
[ Everybody Has Things To Do Around The Apartment
Or House ]
[ You Can’t Always Get Out Of Bed ]
[ & Drop Down On The Couch ]
[ That Definitely Would Test The Bonds Of Friendship By Making
It Wear Thin ]
[ Then Maybe Someday You Will Be Locked Outside ]
[ & No One Will Let You In ]
[ So We Circle Back To Telling You That Your Mouth Always
Gets You Into Trouble ]
[ Well, Reality Is Going To Burst That Big Bubble ]
[ Barney Rubble ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(573)▪︎[ Almost Moving Day … 7•13•2021 ]
[ Well, Tomorrow Is The Big Day ]
[ & What Can I Say? ]
[ Good Luck! ]
[ Go Ducks! ]
[ I Don’t Really Know ]
[ This Day Took A Really Slow ]
[ Time, Getting Here ]
[ & Now It Is Near ]
[ & The Date Is Marked So Clear ]
[ I Am Not Jumping Up & Down For Joy ]
[ Like A Wind-Up Toy ]
[ Because He Will Always Be My Boy ]
[ But There Is The Fact ]
[ About How Dangerous He Acts ]
[ To Me & Others ]
[ Even Towards His Mother ]
[ Clear To His Soul ]
[ He Has Become Out Of Control ]
[ When He Gets Confronted, He Clenches His Fists ]
[ & That Shows That He Is Pissed ]
[ Off ]
[ & All Of His Common Sense Is Lost ]
[ So, Yes It Is About Time That He Takes His Groove ]
[ & Move ]
[ See How He Deals With Others After The Honeymoon
Stage ]
[ Is Over ]
[ & He Acts (4) Years Younger Than His Actual Age ]
[ Than They Will See The Actual, Real Him ]
[ & He Becomes A Problem ]
[ I Was & Am Tired Of The Rampant Disrespect That He
Shows ]
[ & How He Thumbs His Nose ]
[ @ Whatever I Have Said ]
[ & Does Whatever He Wants To Do Instead ]
[ Just Like It Is Almost Moving Time ]
[ This Is The End Of This Specific Rhyme ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(567)▪︎[ Get Out Of My House! … 7•11•2021 ]
[ Well, The Era Of My Son Living @ Home Is Coming To An End
In A Few Days ]
[ My Emotions About It, Has Me Thinking About This In Many
Ways ]
[ But I Know For A Fact ]
[ Because Of How He Acts ]
[ & Reacts ]
[ Around Here & With Me ]
[ This Is What Needs To Happen ]
[ From What I See ]
[ He Goes From 0 To 60 In One Second Flat ]
[ This Is Where Our Relationship Is @ ]
[ He Still Will Not Take Accountability ]
[ For His Actions ]
[ He Just Flat Out Fails @ Taking Responsibility ]
[ For His Reactions ]
[ The Time For Me To Mold ]
[ Him Into An Adult ]
[ Should Have Had Some Kind An Affect By The Time That He
Was 18 Years Old ]
[ I Have Not Had Any Affect On Him For The Last (8) Years,
It Seems ]
[ The Way Things Have Turned Out, Was Nowhere Near My
Dreams ]
[ That I Had ]
[ For The Last 8+ Years He Has Not Respected Me As His
Dad ]
[ Like That Last Word In That Sentence, I Stand Alone ]
[ Like A Single Stone ]
[ In His Life’s Path, Just Getting Kicked To The Side ]
[ Not Caring, How It Made Me Feel Inside ]
[ But His Moving Out Day, Is Coming Up ]
[ I Won’t Have Him In My House, Anymore ]
[ Stealing Everything Of Mine, Except My Lone, Coffee Cup ]
[ Now In A Couple Of Nights, He Will Be In A Different House,
With A Different Atmosphere ]
[ I Hope In The Dead Of The Night When It’s Quiet ]
[ That He Will Think Back & See How Good He Had It Here ]
[ I Hope, That Missing Living In This House, Will Stay In The
Forefront Of His Mind ]
[ Sometimes ]
[ & Then See How His Actions Pushed The Move Out Button
Sooner Than Later ]
[ His Actions & Language Turned Him Into A Hater ]
[ A Hater Of Everything That I Did Or Said ]
[ With Other Men ]
[ He Would Have Gotten Smacked Really Hard Upside His
Head ]
[ But I Chose To Be Non-Violent Instead ]
[ & Now See ]
[ Where It Got Me ]
[ Him Moving Out In (3) ]
[ More Days! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(499)▪︎[ Oh, That Fun Son … 6•17•2021]
[ Nothing Is Sacred, Nothing, Is Out Of Bounds ]
[ Then, Nobody Makes Any Sounds ]
[ He Crosses The Line ]
[ Every … Single … Time ]
[ I Buy Something New & He Uses It ]
[ I Buy Something New & He Breaks It ]
[ Or Ruins It ]
[ It Doesn’t Matter What It Is ]
[ Whenever I Get Something New, He Thinks It Is His ]
[ He Comes Into Our Bedroom To Search ]
[ Like An Eagle Sitting On Their Perch ]
[ He Sets Off Such Rage ]
[ Because It Does Not Matter His Age ]
[ He Has Done This Since 8 Or 9 Years Old ]
[ Even @ Such A Young Age, He Was Very Bold ]
[ When Does This Stop? ]
[ When Can I Let The Restrictions Drop? ]
[ When Should I Make Him Leave? ]
[ Because He Doesn’t Fall In With What I Believe? ]
[ The Things He Is Doing Is So Disgusting & Crude ]
[ I Am Really Going To Start Giving A Cold Attitude ]
[ & What He Is Doing Is Gross ]
[ Like Trying To Eat A Piece Of Burnt Toast ]
[ Maybe He Will Cross The Line That Will Land Him In Jail ]
[ I Wouldn’t Accept Any Personal Mail ]
[ Because I Won’t Come Up With Money To Make His Bail ]
[ Maybe He Will Learn ]
[ When It Will Be His Turn ]
[ If Not … He Could Just Watch His Future Burn ]
[ Up ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(455)▪︎[ My Respectful Son … 5•30•2021 ]
[ He Walked Right By ]
[ Without Saying A Simple ( HI ) ]
[ Have We Really Grown That Far Apart? ]
[ Should Being Ignored, Hurt My Heart? ]
[ The Father-Son Bond Was Broken Years Ago ]
[ He Told Me That He Didn’t Respect Me As His
Father @ 10 Years Old ]
[ As For The Broken Heart Question, That Would Be A ( NO! ) ]
[ There Was No ( ANYMORE )( TODAY ) Said ]
[ But Ever Since Then … ]
[ I Have & Get So Much Disrespect From Him ]
[ The Respect & Love I Get, Is Paper Slim ]
[ He Does Not, Just Not Respect Me ]
[ He Does Things To Disrepect Me, For All To See ]
[ He Doesn’t Care Of The Place Or In Front Of Whom ]
[ He Really Liked It, Anytime I Sent Him To His Room ]
[ He Would Go In There & We Wouldn’t Hear A Peep ]
[ Whenever I Checked On Him, He Was Asleep ]
[ He Doesn’t Play With Much ]
[ So I Could Not Take Away, Such ‘n Such ]
[ He Has Had No Incentive To Job Hunt ]
[ Sometimes I Have Just Wanted To Step Back & Punt ]
[ I Threatened Him With Military Enlistment ]
[ I Didn’t Get A Single Smart-Ass Comment ]
[ For That, I Gave Him A Compliment ]
[ Maybe I Found, His Kriptonite ]
[ Because When I Said The Word ( MILITARY ) ]
[ There Was Not A Single Sign Of Disrespect In Sight ]
[ He Has Had The Easiest Of Anybody’s Childhood ]
[ After 25 Years The Mom & Dad Connection Is Still Really
Good ]
[ He Has A Father That Has Stayed ]
[ He Has A Father That Always Asked If He Could Join Him
Whenever He Played ]
[ I Had Heard Enough ]
[ & Stopped Asking ]
[ After So Many Years Of Being Rebuffed ]
[ He Wanted To Watch Movies With Me ]
[ One Time ]
[ Then When Asked ]
[ He Just Wanted To Watch The T.V. ]
[ He Said It Did Not Matter If I Was There Or Not ]
[ He Was Never Touched In Anger ]
[ He Was Never Hit By A Belt Or A Hangar ]
[ I Do Believe The Quest To Raise A Respectful Adult Son,
Was Foiled ]
[ Because He Was & Is, Oh So Spoiled ]
[ He Has Never Been In A Situation When Things Were Hard
To Come By ]
[ He Has Never Been In A Situation When It Was Hard To Get By ]
[ He Has Never Been Made To Get Through Things On
His Own ]
[ He Has Never Picked Up A Phone ]
[ When There Was No Dial Tone ]
[ Because The Phone Bill Had Not Been Paid ]
[ Because There Was Not Enough Wages, Made ]
[ His Cupboards Have Never Been Bare ]
[ He Has Never Looked In The Kitchen ]
[ & Opened The Refrigerator To Not Find Any Food In There ]
[ He Does Not Do What He Is Asked To Do ]
[ I Guess To Him I Ghost Speak ]
[ & All He Hears Is ( BOO ) ]
[ So Him Not Acknowledging Me Does Not Pull On My Heart-
Strings ]
[ Ignoring Me Is Very Minor ]
[ If Someone Wanted To Compare It To Other Things ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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