Kahala Lei

06 June 2019

Crude Black Water

Words overrated, innocence lost

Privileged opinions suppress reality

While lusty politicians vie for corporate money

Media frightens the public eye with disaster

Foreclosing upon the pursuit of happiness

Imposing hardship among masses

Unavailable prescriptions on hold for approval

Voices of uneducated populations

Electing crude officials to manage humanity

While immigrant children die in custody

All is well with the economy

No budget for education

None for medication

No money for operations

No honest answers given

All is well with the economy

Plenty jobs are listed as available

While not a soul in sight qualifies

Local transportation is prohibited by

Conflicting laws between state and federal

Preventing people from freedom

All is well in a developed country where

Homelessness is the fault of the impoverished

Law enforcement distributes evidence collected

As street product and a way to set up enemies

Mass incarceration feeds privatized prisons

Under the guise of the 13th Constitutional Amendment

Donʻt speak the truth or youʻll offend

Keep your intelligence to yourself

Cover the eyes of children

Blind them from reality, that they

May endure the future of struggle

Deeply embedded in modern culture.

Modern civilized culture

Developing false dreams

Hopeless realities

Plastic islands

Crude black water

Kahala Lei

09 March 2019

Sinful Judges

Who are you to me that I must prove myself to you?

Are you a person, the police, the judge and God too?

What notification did Jesus leave when He left you in charge?

Or do you think that your belief system makes you extra large?

At what point in time has your God told you to break down humanity?

Or are you acting as a Satanic agent to destroy what life could be?

Do you act on faith or are your actions based upon strife?

At which point are you going to get a grip on your life?

At which point are you going to stop pointing fingers?

Once you move forward, your past does not linger.

What did your God say in Act chapter six?

If you were a true follower of God, you would have known this.

If you still have excuses as to why you are not yet perfect,

Then you might want your words to reflect that because arguing with you is not worthy.

You are nobody to many and especially not me,

Therefore to you I owe no explanation nor apology.

Kahala Maui

06 November 2018

1995

With the loss of so many

It was hard to thrive

The hardest year ever

1995

Oh what a year full of tragedy

Death didnʻt come in oneʻs

Nor did it come in threeʻs

Necrotic tendencies

Engulfed the community

For what seemed like eternity

With the loss of so much

It was hard to survive

The hardest year ever

1995

The loss of my family

The loss of my friends

The loss of my education,

Lord when does this end?

The loss of my house

The loss of my home

The loss of anything I

Could ever call my own

With the loss of more loss

What was left to lose?

I wouldnʻt wish for anyone

To walk in those shoes

The hardest year ever

1995

Hard to survive

Impossible to thrive

But when new doors open

Others must close

Nobody can ever say

What the future will hold

Losing my life in essence was true

Just prior to losing the life that I new

Just one year prior to losing myself

I lost mt friends, my family and all of my wealth

When bullets go left and drama goes right

When everyoneʻs been snuffed but youʻre alright

When all has been lost and the damage is done

How can one call themselves the victorious one?

Lives were lost and children scarred

Not a survivor got by without getting marred

Most of the houses have been knocked down

If I went back today, wouldnʻt be my hometown

The past is gone, thereʻs no turning back

Just faded memories under PTSD attack

Thank God today is today and not 1995

The struggle is real but I think Iʻll survive.

Kahala Lei