(302)▪︎[ What Was The Cost? … 2026 ]

[ It Is Amazing What You Can Accomplish ]
[ When You Do Not Care Who Gets The Credit ]
[ But It Is Not Like You Would Have An Aquarium Of Fish ]
[ Scream, “Hey, We Read It!” ]


[ Too Many People Walk Around Raising Their Hand ]
[ Then Demand ]


[ Credit For Something That Someone Else Just Did ]
[ Maybe They Have Done That ]
[ Since They Were A Young Kid ]


[ But They Never Got Credit For Anything That Was Done ]
[ When The Lies Got Hot ]
[ They Would Pack Their Things Up & Run ]
[ Because They Never Wanted To Exposed For Who They Are Not ]


[ They Are An Imposter ]
[ Acting Like A Player ]
[ But Never Good Enough To Have Their Name Placed On The Roster ]


[ They Have Never Found Anything That Could Fulfill Their Life ]
[ They Never Found A Husband ]
[ Because They Never Wanted To Be A Wife ]


[ They Weighed Their Options Between Public Safety & Personal Rights ]
[ Whenever They Tried To Decide ]
[ Their Brain & Soul Had Internal Fights ]


[ It Was Always @ A High Cost ]
[ Because They Could Never Account For What Was Lost ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(026)▪︎[ Too Much Of What? … 2024 ]

[ Is Too Much Of A Good Thing Too Much? ]
[ If It Is Such ]
[ Could It Be Used As A Crutch? ]

[ Would That Be Like That For Lunch? ]
[ Stuff That Goes Crunch? ]
[ Or Only For Things That You Could Get In A Bunch? ]

[ How Is This Found Out? ]
[ Must You Research It To Remove All Doubt? ]
[ But Then Somebody Could Look @ You & Ask “What The Hell Are You Talking About? ]

[ That Would Squash All Of What You Were Thinking ]
[ So There Won’t Even Be Something Linking ]
[ You To Whatever The Thoughts That Would Be Sinking ]

[ To The End Of The Line ]
[ So Nobody Could Whine ]
[ That They Were Not Even Doing So Much As Just Fine ]

[ Once Again Your Thoughts Are Up & Running ]
[ But @ Times They Feel Like They Are Fumbling ]
[ & Bumbling ]

[ How Do You See How You Can Right This Ship? ]
[ So On The Radar Screen Called Life ]
[ It Would Not Be Seen As A Tiny Blip ]
[ Then No One Can Come @ You By Shooting From The Hip ]

[ Do You Feel Alone In A Crowd? ]
[ Only If There Are Hushed Voices? ]
[ If The People Are Loud ]
[ Does It Come Across As Needless Noises? ]

[ Is There A Difference, From What You Can See? ]
[ If There Is, What Can It Be? ]

[ Can It Be Seen? ]
[ Does It Come Across Really Clean? ]
[ Or Somewhere In-Between ] 

Mahalo
  LopakaDeVoe

(992)▪︎[ What? … 11•29•2020 ]

[ Have You Ever Had One Of Those Days When Nothing
Made Sense? ]
[ & When You Go Into The Backyard ]
[ You Notice That There Are Two Tents? ]

[ Then You Felt Like Such A Goof ]
[ When You Stumbled Off Of The Roof ]
[ & Broke Your Last Tooth? ]

[ What Do You Do Now With A Crooked Smile? ]
[ When All That You Wanted To Do ]
[ Was Swim In The Long River Of Denial ]

[ Swim, Swim Until You Reach The Dry Land ]
[ Was This Wish A Want? ]
[ Or A Demand? ]

[ Grass Clippings In The Dishwasher, Shampoo In The
Sink ]
[ How Your Journey Has Come To This Point ]
[ Has You Ice Skating On The Roller Rink ]

[ Where Do You Go From Here? ]
[ As You Cough Up Another Tear ]
[ Your Steak Does Not Taste Quite Right ]
[ When You Sneeze In Your Beer ]

[ When The Sun Rises In The West ]
[ Does It Help You Grow Hair On Your Chest? ]
[ Or Do You Go To The Grocery Store, Looking For Ice
Cream That Is Good, Better, Best? ]

[ When You Turn On The Light, Does That Help You Sleep? ]
[ Or Do You Stand In The Shallow End Of The Pool ]
[ & Only Splash Water When It’s Deep? ]

[ Life Is Really Confusing When You Open Your Ears ]
[ When You Fall Out Of Bed In The Afternoon ]
[ Do You See The Thunderous Cheers? ]

[ A Snake On The Floor, Beats A Bird In The Hand ]
[ Will Anyone Feel It ]
[ When You Give That Command? ]

[ Nothing Makes Sense As Long As Your Knee ]
[ Life Is Really Confusing, When Your Eyes Yell That
They Cannot Grow A Tree ]

[ Ice Cream, Ice Cream Is Always Cold On The Brain ]
[ Sometimes When You Eat It So Fast ]
[ It Feels Like You Are Swimming On A Train ]

[ Around & Around The Eyeballs Go ]
[ When Will The Stop Light Turn Yellow ]
[ You Will Never Know ]

[ Life Gets So Confusing When You Have To Say The
Alphabet Backwards, In Numerical Order ]
[ Anybody Up For Burger King ]
[ As You Run For The Border? ]

[ A Taco From Baskin Robbins Sure Sounds Good Right
Now ]
[ But Since You Don’t Have A Car To Walk With ]
[ You Really Won’t Know How ]

[ You Can Pick Up The Order That You Sent In Long
Before Yesterday ]
[ You’ve Been Meaning To Get It ]
[ Since The 10th Of May ]

[ Life Sure Does Get Confusing The Younger You Get ]
[ You Are Sure Glad That You Have Known You ]
[ Ever Since We Met ]

[ Make Sure You Don’t Break When You Only Mean To
Bend ]
[ So Now There Is No Need To Start Over ]
[ Once You’ve Started @ The End ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ]

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(420)▪︎[ Hear Me Speak … 6•20•2022 ]

[ How Do I Look, Through Your Eyes? ]
[ Do You Think, That I Am Just One Of Those Guys ]
[ That Smiles ]
[ While Telling You, A Bunch Of Lies? ]

[ So I’m Just, A Guy ]
[ Who Tells, Lie After Lie? ]

[ Why Would You, Think That ]
[ Because You Might Think That I May Have An Allergy ]
[ To Telling You, The Needed Facts? ]

[ What, Have I Done? ]
[ To Ruin, Your Fun? ]

[ Some Say, That I Crave Trouble ]
[ But I Just Don’t Want, Resistance ]
[ Because I Live, In A Bubble ]
[ & I Never, Ask For Assistance ]

[ It Is Not Like I Think, Getting Help, Means That You Are Weak ]
[ Some Of The Words, That I Would, Have To Say ]
[ I Just Don’t Speak ]

[ I Rarely Used The (H) Word ]
[ But It Is Something That Seems To Be ]
[ The Only Words That I Have Heard ]

[ Yesterday & Last Night ]
[ Sometimes, The Word (HELP) ]
[ Causes Some People, To Start A Fight ]

[ Fighting, Against Family Or Friends ]
[ Can Go On A Long Long Time ]
[ & Having, A Bruised Ego Never Ends ]

[ Confrontation, Or Trouble, Is Not Somthing That I Seek ]
[ If That Was The Case ]
[ This Is What I Speak ]

[ People Even Think That All I Do Is Hurt ]
[ That Is Not Always True ]
[ If You Asked The Heart That Pumps Under My Shirt ]

[ I Would Give The Shirt, If Needed Or Asked ]
[ I Would Think Nothing, If Given This Task ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(720)▪︎[ What Storm? … 8•23•2020 ]

[ Inside Every One Of Us Is A Storm Waiting To Rage ]
[ Are You The Rain, The Thunder, The Lightning ]
[ Or The Next Ice Age? ]

[ When There Are Storms @ The Beach ]
[ The Waves Crash So Hard & So Loud ]
[ You Cannot Hear Yourself Speak ]

[ Some People Have A Fascination With Storms ]
[ That Is Just Slightly Out Of Other Peoples Norms ]

[ Is It The Driving, Blinding Rain ]
[ That Floods The Outside Drains ]
[ That Drive Those People Insane? ]

[ Is The Flash Of The Lightning Or The Thunderous Boom ]
[ That Makes People Hide ]
[ Or Run Into The Inside Rooms? ]

[ The Weather Guy ]
[ Tells No Lies ]
[ When He Predicts That The Lightning @ Night ]
[ Will Light Up The Sky’s ]

[ Others Like The Calm & The Warmth That The Sun Brings ]
[ That Seems To Be When All Of The Birds Sing ]
[ It Also Has You Wonder ]
[ What Opportunities A New Day Will Bring ]

[ The Opportunities Would Be Endless ]
[ & If You Tried ]
[ It Would Knock You Senseless ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ]

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(005)▪︎[ What’s Possible … 1•2•2020 ]

[ @ Times You See What’s Possible ]
[ Instead Of What’s Already Here ]
[ When Things Look Attainable ]
[ You Look For Ways To Make The Vision Clear ]

[ Some People Make Things Happen ]
[ Others Look To Dampen ]

[ The Bright Days Of Their Peers ]
[ & They’ve Been Doing That For Years ]

[ They Just Want To Rain On People’s Parades ]
[ They Do This Under The Disguise That They Are Playing
     An Innocent Game Of Charades ]

[ Just Never Turn Your Back ]
[ & Watch Out For A Stab ]

[ For It Will Inevitably Come ]
[ Some People Around You Have No Heart ]
[ & Their Emotions Are Cold & Numb ]

[ Sometimes In Life You Have To Play The Game ]
[ It Might Be Different In Name ]
[ But Their Objective Is The Same ]

[ Disrupt The Calm ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ]

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(614)▪︎[ What Murder? … 7•25•2021 ]

[ To Get Away With The Perfect Murder ]
[ They Have To Jump Over A Bunch Of Hurdles ]

[ The First Thing They Must Do Is Sell Their Soul ]
[ To The Devil ]
[ To Put Them In A Hole ]

[ They Truly Believe That To Take A Soul They Must First Give
     Up One ]
[ But For Some ]
[ Usually It’s One & Done ]

[ But When They Commit More ]
[ That Makes Them A Much Bigger Horror ]

[ Maybe They Are Giving Up The Souls Of Those That They Love ]
[ Then Knowing That Their Souls Would Never Go Up High
     Above ]

[ No Pearly Gates For Those That They Knew ]
[ Nobody Going Up Higher Than The Sky Is Blue ]

[ They Must First Become Quite The Incredible ]
[ Believable ]

[ Liar ]
[ They Must Be Able To Keep A Straight Face While Walking
     Through A Blazing Fire ]

[ Being Devoid Of Emotion, While Keeping A Straight Face ]
[ Going In & Out Of Their Place ]
[ Without Leaving Any Trace ]

[ Of Fingerprints Or DNA Evidence ]
[ Not Leaving Footprints Where They Jumped Over The Fence ]

[ They Can’t Have Any Prying Eyes ]
[ Being Able To Tell Believable Lies ]
[ Then Be Able To Console Those That Have Crying Eyes ]
[ Of Any Girls Or Guys ]

[ Being Able To Lie ]
[ While Having A Rock Solid Alibi ]

[ Is A Must ]
[ Unless They Want To Give The Police An Easy Bust ]

[ Sometimes The Saying Of ( NO BODY, NO EASY CONVICTION )
     Is Spot On ]
[ One Day They Were Here ]
[ & The Next Day They Were Gone ]

[ Maybe They Can Make It Look Like An Unfortunate ]
[ Accident ]

[ Witnesses Only Benefit A Prosecutors Case ]
[ Even When Their Story Is So Far Off Base ]

[ Maybe The Perfect Murder Is The One That Was Never Committed ]
[ Then They Won’t Need To Worry About What They Omitted ]
[ But Not Admitted ]

[ From The Story They Would Have To Tell ]
[ Because There Is No Getting Back Your Soul Once It Is Headed
     Towards Hell ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(1111)▪︎[ What Is Hope? … 12•13•2020 ]

[ What Does It Mean When Someone Exclaims That They
     Have Hope? ]
[ Could It Be Squashed When Another Person Says ( NOPE ) ? ]

[ Can Someone Go Through Their Whole Life Without Any? ]
[ That Would Be Uncanny ]

[ What Is The Difference Between The Words ( HOPE ) & ( FAITH ) ]
[ Can You Ever Get Them Straight? ]

[ Faith Can Be When You Believe In Something Or Someone Every
     Day ]
[ Hope Can Be Having Faith In Some Imaginary Way ]

[ The Two Words Can Be Intertwined ]
[ Both Are Kept In The Depths Of The Mind ]

[ Neither Can Be Based On A Command ]
[ Neither One Can Be Physically Held Or Touched By Your  Hand ]

[ Can This Be Something You Could Teach? ]
[ Not Preach ]
[ But You Would Still Have To Define Each ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(532)▪︎[ What Build-Up? … 6•1•2020 ]

[ People Build You Up, Then Try To Break You Down ]
[ First You Are The Hero ]
[ Then They Try To Make You Into A Clown ]

[ They Would Even Paint The Frown On Your Face ]
[ & Then Take You Place To Place ]
[ Treating Like You Are A Disgrace ]

[ Who Do You Trust, Who? ]
[ How Many, Two? ]
[ One More Than A Few ]

[ You Never Turn Your Back On Anyone ]
[ If You Let Your Guard Down ]
[ …You’re Done ]

[ & Then ]
[ You Say { SANITY, SANITY WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? } ]
[ You Feel It Coming Back ]
[ But When? ]

[ Little By Little, Bit By Bit ]
[ You Try To Light A Fire Under Yourself ]
[ But It Won’t Stay Lit ]

[ Why Do Others Try To Break You Down,  Why? ]
[ You Don’t Want To Be A Hero ]
[ You Want To Be Just A Regular Guy ]

[ Lie After Lie, Is What You Have Been Told ]
[ It Turns You Cold ]
[ & Makes You Feel Old ]

[ So How Do You Get Out Of This Whirlwind Mess? ]
[ You Thought You Were Blessed ]
[ Because Everybody Said ( YES ) ]

[ But You Figured Out Why They Did ]
[ Their True Intentions ]
[ Were Usually Hid ]

[ Now Everything Is Coming Out Of Wherever It Was Hiding ]
[ Is This How Your Worlds ]
[ Will Be Colliding? ]

[ The Worlds Of Real & Make-Believe ]
[ Is This The Point In Your Life ]
[ Where You Want To Leave? ]

[ What Is Real ]
[ What Is Fake
[ Whatever You Feel ]
[ Can You Take? ]

[ Reality Is A Transitional Thing ]
[ @ Your Wake, What Will They Bring? ]
[ Will They Sing? ]
[ All Of This, Must Be A Dream ]
[ Because Now You Hear The Telephone Ring ]

[ You Answer It Because Nobody Else Is Home ]
[ All You Get Is A Dial Tone ]
[ Once Again You’re Home All Alone ]

[ Lift Yourself Up ]
[ Dust Yourself Off ]
[ Drink Water From A Cup ]
[ To Get Rid Of That Cough ]

[ Learn To Rejoice When You Are All By Yourself ]
[ Show Yourself That You Don’t Always ]
[ Need To Be Entertained By Someone Else ]

[ Listen To The Silence ]
[ Feel Your Heart Beat ]
[ You Don’t Want Any Part Of The Violence ]
[ That Is Erupting On State Street ]

[ Turn Off The Light ]
[ & Then Try To Sleep Through The Night ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

    

(429)▪︎[ What Day Was That … 5•21•2021 ]

[ One Bright Sunny Wednesday, I Was Sitting Here Counting
Down The Days Until Friday ]
[ I Did Not Want To Go Too Fast So Then All Of A Sudden It
Would Be Saturday & Saturday Is One Day Too Far After Friday,
Which Is Where I Was Waiting, Wishing, Wanting & Needing To Go ]
[ So Wednesday Is The Day Before Thursday & Thursday Is The Day Before Friday, Which Is Where I Wished I Was ]
[ Because Friday Is Your Monday, Even Though It Is Right Before Saturday, Your Tuesday ]
[ If Saturday Is Your Tuesday Would That Make Sunday Your Thursday Or Your Wednesday? ]
[ If Monday Is Your Friday, What Day Is Your Wednesday? ]
[ Wednesday Is Hump Day Because It Is Three Days Away, Or After, Sunday & Three Days Away, Or Before From Saturday ]
[ But I Am Looking For Friday, The Day Before Saturday ]
[ Friday Is Always Saturdays Yesterday & Thursdays Tomorrow ]
[ Then What Happened To Thursday? ]
[ You Don’t Really Have A Thursday, Unless You Make Your Sunday Your Thursday & Still Be Able To Call Your Monday Your Friday ]
[ Tuesday’s Are One Of Two Days That Are Kind Of Looked Over, Around & Past ]
[ They Are The Day After The Day That People Dread That Is Coming ]
[ They Are A Long Ways Away From The Day That People Hope That Comes Faster, Friday ]
[ The Other Day That Is Glossed Over Is Thursday ]
[ But On Wednesday, Friday Doesn’t Come Until The Day After Tomorrow ]
[ Tomorrow Is Really Thursday, One Day Before Your Monday ]
[ But That Makes Monday Your Friday & Friday Your Monday ]
[ Then What Ever Happened To The Day Before Friday, Which Would Be Thursday? ]
[ If That Is Your Sunday Why Don’t You Work On Thursdays? ]
[ If You Worked On Thursdays I Would Be Looking Forward To Wednesdays Tomorrow, Not Saturdays Yesterday ]
[ Does That All Make A Bit Of Sense? ]

~ The End ~

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