[ Accidents Are A Part Of Life ]
[ Never Run With Scissors ]
[ Never Run Around With A Butcher Knife ]

[ Car Accidents Are Part Of Driving ]
[ If You Don’t Go To Town, Who Are You Depriving? ]
[ Moving Your Body Is Part Of Thriving ]

[ You Want To Stay Alive, Don’t You? ]
[ When Something Is Wrong With Your Body ]
[ Somehow, In Some Way, It Will Drop You A Clue ]

[ You Only Have One Life To Live ]
[ So Go Out There & Start Living ]
[ If You Have Extra, Anything, Learn How To Give ]
[ Life Is All About Giving ]

[ When You Were A Young Adult, You Were Given A Hand Up ]
[ So You Weren’t Sent Out On The Street ]
[ Homeless, Holding A Beggars Cup ]
[ With Broken Down Shoes On Your Feet ]

[ What If That Would Have Happened? ]
[ Any Future Plans That You Might Have Had ]
[ Would Have Definitely Been Dampened ]

[ You’d Be Freezing & Wet Being Out In The Elements ]
[ It’s Not Like Any Of The Sporting Goods Stores Were Handing Out Winter Coats & Tents ]

[ Would You Even Have A Jacket On? ]
[ Because Your (3) So Called Friends, Came Into Your Apartment & Stole All Of Your Stuff ]
[ Your Clothes Were Gone ]
[ So Making A Living On The Street, Was Extremely Rough ]

[ Would You Always Stay & Sleep Under A Light? ]
[ You Would Want It Turned On & You Wanted It Bright ]
[ All Because You Didn’t Want To Get Jumped In The Dark ]
[ & You Didn’t Know How To Fight ]
[ So You Would Probably Become An Easy Mark ]

[ Nothing Like Having A Big Target On Your Back ]
[ You Would Lay Down Just Anticipating An Attack ]
[ Too Bad You Didn’t Have A Gun Back Then, So You Could Pack ]

[ You Have Never Liked The Dark, Ever Since You Were Young ]
[ You Were Not Taught Any Different Because You Were Don’s Unwanted Son ]

[ He Only Agreed To Adopt You Because His Arm Was Twisted ]
[ When He Got Home, He Probably Got Seriously Drunk ]
[ Because When He Got Out “THE JIM & JACK” He Drank Double Fisted ]
[ Alcohol Was His Master, So He Never Resisted ]
[ When He Looked @ You @ Times It Seemed Like He Wished That You Never Existed ]

[ You Had Drug & Alcohol Addiction Run Through Your Family Tree ]
[ You Saw The Way That Alcohol Had An Affect On Your Bio Dad ]
[ When You Were Just Barely Taller Than His Knee ]

[ But, You Should Go Through Life Standing Tall, Being Who You Are ]
[ You Have Zero Control Over What People Say ]
[ In The Eyes Of Many, You Are A Rock Star ]
[ Every Night & Every Day ]

[ Don Has Thankfully Been Deceased For About A Decade ]
[ You Got The Last Laugh ]
[ While Standing In The Shade ]

[ In 2011 You Legally Dropped His Last Name From Yours ]
[ Stomped On It As It Dropped To The Floor ]
[ Never Looking Back As You Left Through The Courthouse Doors ]

[ You Changed The (3) Of Us As You Took On Your Wife’s Maiden Name ]
[ Things Have Completely Changed ]
[ Because Now, It’s A Whole New Ballgame ]

[ You Know That He Heard About It Through The Grapevine Of Family Chats ]
[ You Hope That It Ate @ Him Like Rats ]
[ & Buzzed Around His Head, Like A Bunch Of Gnats ]

[ Making Him Feel Every Bit ]
[ Like Shit ]
[ Because He Never Could Get Past The Thought Of It! ]

[ The Next Time That You Go To The Coast ]
[ Don’t Go Up To The Water Right Away ]
[ Stand There In The Sand With Your Eyes Closed ]
[ You Might Get A Whole Different Perspective Of The Beach, That Day ]

Mahalo
~LopakaDeVoe~