(468)▪︎[ The Question Is (WHEN?) … 6•4•2021 ]

[ When Can Someone Say That They Are Successful? ]
[ When Their Cupboards & Belly Are Full? ]

[ Would It Be From The Adulation That They Receive? ]
[ From The People Who Follow Them & Believe? ]

[ Alot Of Success Has To Come From The Gratification
From Others ]
[ It Doesn’t Come From Your Wife Or Your Fake Mother ]

[ Sometimes You Have To Seek Outside Approval Because
Looking In The Mirror Is Not Enough ]
[ The Mirror Can Show You When That Day Has Been Rough ]

[ Money In The Bank Does Not Always Equate To Having
A Great Life ]
[ Right Now, It Does Not Even Equate To Having A Loyal
Wife ]

[ Because A Life Cannot Always Be Made From A Checkbook ]
[ Sometimes You Have To Lift Your Head To Look ]

[ The Picture You Might See Is Not Always Rosy ]
[ The House That You Wake-Up In May Not Be So Cozy ]

[ Anymore ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(143)▪︎[ When Why & How? … 2•15•2020 ]

[ What Would Happen If Your Two World’s Would Collide ]
[ Does That Mean You Died? ]

[ Could They? ]
[ Would They, Someday? ]

[ What If They Did? ]
[ What Would You Do? ]
[ If Your World Slid ]
[ Down The Drain Right In Front Of You? ]

[ Would You Panic? ]
[ Why? ]
[ Would You Be That Manic? ]
[ Kind Of Guy? ]

[ Why Would You Exhibit That Kind Of Behavior? ]
[ Would You Really Think That You Are Going To Die? ]
[ & Come Face To Face With Your Savior? ]

[ Would You Worry Once Again? ]
[ When, When? ]
[ Would The End Of The World Begin? ]

[ How Would This All Come About? ]
[ It Definitely Is Not A Situation ]
[ Where You Can Throw Up Your Hands & Scream ( I WANT OUT!! ) ]

[ You’re Stuck & You Don’t Understand What You Should
Be Doing ]
[ Now ]
[ Maybe You Could Be @ A Little Chapel In ‘Vegas Renewing ]
[ Your Vows? ]
[ Any How ]

[ Would You Stay Busy ]
[ Or Rest? ]
[ If You Were To Be Lazy ]
[ Would You Think That Would Be Best ]

[ & If The Rockets Started To Explode All Around ]
[ Leaving Huge Craters ]
[ Where There Used To Be Ground ]

[ You Take A Deep Breath, Trying To Get Stable ]
[ Then You Wonder ]
[ { ARE YOU ABLE? } ]
[ If That Would Be A Huge Blunder ]
[ You Could Always Hide Under The Table ]

[ To Feel Safe ]
[ But Don’t Think In Haste ]
[ Go Pack Your Toothbrush & Toothpaste ]
[ & Throw Everything Away ]
[ Like It’s Waste ]

[ & Shiver & Hide ]
[ All Of This, Because ]
[ You Thought You Two World’s Were Going To Collide ]

~ 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 ]