[ Some Things Can Go Up & Never Come Down ]
[ Have You Ever Seen Dreams Or Smoke ]
[ Hit The Ground? ]

[ When Being Right May Be Wrong ]
[ Is There Ever A Time When Being Weak ]
[ Is Better Than Being Strong? ]

[ If You To Go To Portland, Or Anywhere ]
[ Up There ]
[ Be Aware ]

[ There Have Been Over A Hundred Days Of Unrest ]
[ It Would Not Be Wise Right Now To Be A Guest ]
[ Everywhere You Go You See The Essential Workers ]
[ Giving Their Best ]
[ It Feels Like We Are Smack In The Middle ]
[ Of A Very Hard Social Science Test ]

[ We Seem Unable To Come Up With The Correct Answers ]
[ All Of This Hate & Violence ]
[ Is Becoming One Of Society’s Worst Cancers ]

[ It Spreads & Spreads ]
[ It Attacks The Soul ]
[ & The Head ]
[ It Will Continue To Roll ]
[ Until A Big Part Of Society ]
[ Is Either Injured Or Dead ]

[ Nobody Knows When This Hell On Earth Will Come To
A Stop ]
[ It Stresses People Most Everywhere ]
[ Making Some People Drop ]

[ Will Anyone Dare ]
[ To Care? ]
[ Will Someone Extend Their Hand? ]
[ Or Will They Stand There ]
[ & Stare? ]
[ @ The Fallen Woman Or Man ]


[ To Help Someone Get Back Up & To Be Whole ]
[ Say Or Do Something Good ]
[ To Warm Their Soul ]
[ Does Anyone Want To Take On That Role? ]

[ Now It Seems ]
[ That Some People’s Dreams ]
[ Have Turned Into Nightmares & Loud Screams ]

[ We Have A Virus That Keeps Killin’ ]
[ When You Ask For Help ]
[ Nobody Is Willin’ ]
[ It Seems Like You Cannot Sit Back ]
[ & Just Be Chillin’ ]

[ Stay 6 Feet Apart @ All Times ]
[ & Stores Can Only Accept Credit Or Debit Cards ]
[ Because No One Wants To Touch A Stranger’s Dollars Or Dimes ]

[ Society Is Fast Becoming A Very Impersonal Crowd ]
[ Where We Were Once Proud ]
[ The Majority Has Gone Quiet ]
[ While A Very Very Very Small Group Of People Have Become Destructive
& Quite Loud ]

[ Making Their Actions & Views ]
[ Being Shown Daily On The News ]

[ So Gatherthings That Used To Include ]
[ Everyone ]
[ Are Being Replaced With People Who Are Plain Rude ]
[ To Anyone ]

[ If You Are Not Part Of Their Group ]
[ & In The Loop ]
[ You Are Left In The Kitchen ]
[ Eating Your Soup ]

[ & Start Becoming Reclusive ]
[ Negative ]
[ No Longer Positive ]

[ Because Of All These Fires The Air Is Thick With Smoke ]
[ When You Breathe In ]
[ You Can Start To Choke ]

[ With All Of These Fires ]
[ There Are Actually People That Still Might Say ( EVERYTHING HAPPENS
FOR A REASON ) ]
[ Would They Be A Liar ]
[ If They Can’t Find One For This Years Destructive Fire Season? ]

[ I Guess Some Reasons Can Be Good While Others Can Be Bad ]
[ When I Think Of All Of The Loss I Could Become Mad ]
[ When I Think Of All The Displaced People ]
[ I Could Get Really Sad ]

[ Everywhere You Look It Is So Dry ]
[ Can Mother Nature Give Us Rain? ]
[ Or @ Least Try? ]

[ Mother Nature Is Destroying Itself ]
[ When Tomorrow Comes ]
[ Can She Try Something Else? ]

[ It Seems Like There Are Catastrophies Happening In Many States ]
[ All @ The Same Time ]
[ Making Us To Forever Remember What Happened On These Dates ]

[ Fire Has Destroyed So Many Cars & Houses ]
[ Some Were Only Able To Save Their Kids & Spouses ]

[ Everything They Earned ]
[ They Learned ]
[ Were Gone & Burned ]

[ How Do You Help, What Can You Give? ]
[ What Do People Need? ]
[ So They Can Get Back To Some Form Of Normalcy Where They
Used To Live? ]

[ Some May Never ]
[ Some Things Are Gone Forever ]

[ Has The Word ( HOPE ) ? ]
[ Been Replaced By The Answer ( NOPE ) ? ]

[ Can We Pray For Rain In Tomorrows Weather? ]
[ Together? ]
[ Lately It Seems Like It Is Now … Or Never ]

~ The End ~

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