lifeswimming - adapted david galipeau

adapted couple

2010-05-20T16:01:00.000+02:00

we push a little button and we get hot coffee
push a little button and we get some tea
the worlds gone mad and we just push buttons
but what about you and me?

once watched trash tv and now we don't agree
on long distance video -in the thai sea
we push a little button and it's 'au revoir'
but what about you and me?

adapted spaces

2010-05-18T11:38:00.000+02:00

now that I'm older
taking the time to look
back over my shoulder
on the days confusion took

now that I'm wiser
surely I've learned to read it
i should know

no surface shines brighter
than the light that burns between us
never so sure
i always take more
though i still don't know what it's for

on a clear day
i'll fly home to you
i'm bending time getting back to you
old moon fades into the new

yes true - I've seen you
stripped to the very core
i know that I need you
more than I did before

adapted lights

2010-02-12T20:38:00.000+01:00

my life's a wastes before i go
it's funny how your touch never leaves me whole
it's not enough to stay here - almost trying
you keep the last laugh - watch me dying
it's just my time - turbulent flow
and if you want an answer - I don't know

if you had completed me
don't think I'd be pleased with you
don't think I'd compete with you
with part of me a critical review

your life nothing I'd call home
i'm lucky how these phantom limb never slow
it's not enough to leave this falling kindly
you burn my star down twice as brightly
it's just my full light - undertow
but if you need forgiveness - I don't know

my light shines bright - nothing wrong
just a corner of my bed where you belong
it's kind of you to notice no one's dying
you had your last laugh almost crying
it's your life, don't you know?
and if you need a reason - so it goes

adapted liasons

2008-11-08T08:08:00.007+01:00

you and me are on the path towards dangerous remit

i'm not that dick that can just run and split
you're not that dumb chic about to take this hit
we are heading towards the same emotional bullshit

... and we don't get it

adapted encounter

2008-10-24T00:24:00.000+02:00

i'm up in the stars
but can't speak for crying
then got lost in the bars
that i found without trying

why do i argue for all i claim?
why not accept there's no blame?
i saw her again, emotions to tame
then i felt alone - all the same

no vision planned on that night
i prayed and dreams started
a soul, a dream full of light
but was left down - brokenhearted

closed all the doors - so i can die
momentarily, i roll and see
i'm all alone but she is there
she brings peaceful calm into me

she sleeps but i hear her breathing
that's all i need - no words to say
her face is precious and i am safe
but now in decay, i fade away

she wakes and shares herself with me

adapted challenges

2008-04-26T23:12:00.002+02:00

people always shoot for less
people find their lives an awful mess
people, well ... reassess

it's a lions fight
chin up
shoulders back
walk proud
strut a little

people appear and live in your life
some people need more than just a slice
but when it fades and the glitter's gone
don't lick your wounds, celebrate them
you didn't invent this contest

people don't get much
people feel they're outta touch
what your spirit wants, is talking to you now
close your eyes, listen, don't use a crutch

you know it
you owe it to yourself, you've already decided
not to win because you didn't know how to roar

don't let that make you mad, old and lonely when the shades go down
the brighter lights just eliminated your empty games

what you thought you lost was just mislaid
all the poems in your mind are a serenade
the scars you bear are an honourably masquerade

it's the sign of a competitor

adapted love forever

2008-03-10T21:48:00.004+01:00

you were always in my life
talking to me while i sleep
full form appears - then left behind
to look ahead, a promise to keep

you've grown up and i'm sad
but the world keeps moving on

accept me

those we meet are so strange
that's why there'll always be strangers
their talk is big but just small change
for thoughts and love - it endangers

i know you're still here
but the world keeps moving on

believe me

words go in but they don't come out
that's why we need our feelings which
make us feel lucky, without doubt
to be rich with you and enrich

you make me alive
but the world keeps moving on

love me

it's with you - in you - i stay destined
i can believe that you know what to do
all brightened to be allover brazened
all angels - shine - and take kindly to you

understand
that the world keeps moving on

hear me

age comes up short in my ageless time
there comes a day where it just ends
no more wisdom in short nursery rhyme
they will call - and my life transcends

goodbye my love
but your world will keep moving on

remember me

adapted unusual

2008-03-05T02:50:00.004+01:00

where are the rules for us dying fools?
is being honest with myself a noble truth?
is there a red thread out there somewhere
between me and you and age and youth?

is this the right time to continue life's play?
it seems that there must be a better way
for me to accept and just simple say

in a way - very unusual

fighting ourselves like a cookie of fortune
crumbling under life's fingers to read other's words
which put us in boxes to follow the herds
while time counts our heartbeat's constant rhythm
and fills our spiritual bouquet with unspiritual decay

we are beyond this - beyond us - beyond here and now
beyond our lonely fusion of each single allusion
we are told not to try and we'll never pull through
our honesty - honestly - cause so much confusion

we pray - very unusual

we were taught to take - always needing to want
all of life's shiny trinkets in life
and we hope that they save us
from life's mirror of strife but when it's all over
none of these things will matter but

we stay - very unusual

we are so scared of that one day we eventually die
why don't we attempt an invisable try?
come out, come out, do not disembark
but we run and hide - a collective shadow
and pronounce 'life' with a diacritical mark

every day - very unusual

adapted reason

2008-03-02T03:01:00.003+01:00

i recognise no method of living that I know
I see only the basic logic in which i rely

if you ask me, I may tell you stories that make no sense
it's been this way for years and days, a pretence
of an symphany in my ears that feed my fears
you gave me these words to write, a fight

'cause i'm seeing trouble ahead
but how does this rhyme fit the crime?
where are your blind heroes now?
am i the sacred cow you vow?

for i am a new morning rising, right?
a brand new sky in a brand new night
it has an effect on me that i see, to a tolerable degee

that you're not fooling anybody
'cause you just won't leave me alone
lonliness, falling from grace
you just won't leave me alone

i am a little divided, do I stay or run?
overdone, trapped in yearning, no one's won
would i spend forever here?
perhaps i'm blind in a peace of mind, consigned

that if the waters are kind, i might just swim
and if the sun shines right, i might be here to stay
within your tide and your simple secrets
whispering me to sleep, just take it up
and i can silently weep
deep, deep, deep

adapted reader

2008-02-21T00:29:00.031+01:00

reader - kick off your shoes and relax your feet
roll up your mind for this poetic treat
you've never been phony and I'm never fake
i write and you read - a mutual mistake?

for i sharpen words that cut like sharp knives
i've given you my ladder so you'll read what arrives
as i pull your loose threads and gathered you in
to my words of common sin - so let's now begin

reader - why do you stare at my dark window pane?
got nothin' on your tongue and it's startin' to pain?
so you read what i write - my cold holed advice
it's hard to get words - reader - at a bargain price

you wakin' up the dead like 'serpent and rainbow' ?
now you're playing my game - no penalties to throw
please, mr. henry thoreau, roll reader some hay
for your exploratory play, on your elaborate way

cause i'm shocking your ass like a faulty vibrator
you're a disgrace and a word free speach hater
who knows - i suppose - where the wicked wind blows
que sera sera? you fight what's right - reader - and oppose

cause you invited me in like i was martin luther king
who fed you old words and repeat linguistic string
murdered - unheard - blurred and deterred
and you never said a word in his theater absurd

so feel - reader - don't turned over your head
and feel - cold words in your cold single bed
as i fill your mind so you can't see when i throw
you laminar multi-syllabled menstrual flow

silence - reader - still in your stance with no chance
of a ceremonial dance with me - your poet romance
no reason to stay - reader - when you know what I say
just follow as i lead you astray in a heartfelt way

you hear my words - reader - ringing in your ears
the strangest words you've heard for years and years
my rhyme was long since dead but now there's life
it's crossing your veins like a surgical knife

see - reader - psychadelic meanderings in my poem?
i speak pictorial pitter patter wherever i roam
like the words of jean chauvin, lost church leader
moronic boredom is your problem - so read on - damn reader

adapted power

2008-02-18T00:20:00.006+01:00

language is extensive and it never knew what to think
for the reader's sees their contemporaneous reality
contradictory beliefs in one's mind blink
ignorance is strength, they'll write with formality

hail to the thief is a novel illustration
that government can warp what a person holds true
confessing isn't betrayal, can't make you believe it
room 101 can never get inside of you

she betrayed you, immediately, unreservedly
i held the candle as she lit up your bed
two mutually contradictory meanings allegedly
with a chopper to cut off your head

who controls the past now controls the future
isn't what you want me to know contradictory?
who controls the present now controls the past
at every moment, the lustful thrill of victory

i have seldom seen anyone come over so promptly
you would hardly recognise her if you saw her
all her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly
her dirty-mindedness - crimes of the saboteur

it was a perfect conversion, a textbook case
they threaten you with something undeserving of
something you can't stand up to, and then you pray,
'don't do it to me, do it to somebody i love'

the sensation of trampling on an helpless enemy
if you want a picture of the future to be
imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever
i don't see what anyone else can see in anyone else - but me

adapted conclusion

2008-02-15T18:45:00.005+01:00

another day
just breathe

another day
just believe

another day
just qui vive

should be use to it by now, nothing i would disavow
just absence without leave

adapted confirmation

2008-02-14T21:54:00.004+01:00

yesterday way beguiled, memory storage smiled
again every ones child

as if an accident, perhaps coincidence
in the end it makes sense

it's always in my head, color venetian red
and alveolar fed

in the theory of games, came ideas and aims
and i burst into flames

myself as if married, alone never carried
i'm buried and harried

a puzzle inside me, at the lowest degree
exactly where to be

if the riddle gets solved, not totally devolved
and purposely involved

all that ev'ryone sees, antisocial disease
that is inside of me

stand in insurgency, state of emergency
how beautiful to be

unexplained, unrestrained,
preordained, self-contained

us we are always right, have panoramic sight
stage fright on opening night

adapted ego

2008-02-01T00:40:00.001+01:00

cryptic thoughts meander
there are words beneath the words
unwilling lieutenant commander
there are herds within the herds

try to discern any true meaning
of detached contracts under seal
a listless poem of love intervening
quiet melodies of personal appeal

yet it maintains its reminiscing
recurring dreams of minor chords
the importance of me dismissing
lonesome games to seem adored

in the pulse there lies conviction
of steady push and pull routine
still no retaliatory eviction
of our a facsimile machine

adapted sleep

2008-02-01T00:12:00.001+01:00

man, I feel like shit tonight
fear and questions I cannot fight
why am I the last to understand
if i'm really that type of man?

what is true and what is right
i just can't be alone to fight
cant change the way I am
the type that gives a damn?

i guess I cannot know
that i make the rules up as I go
i try to see me as I can
and the emotional race i ran

i’ve shown myself I just don’t care
i’m throwing punches in the air
i’m broken down and I can’t stand
wheres the man that I demand?

if I lie to relieve
i promise I’ll believe

just what I said was cold advice
my sticks align with my knives
discovered I could die in chains
of archeological growing pains

the moment I said it, opened my speech
bulldozed my life, no one to preach
i am just not thinking straight
can't explain my reality state

i'm losing me - trust me on this one
got a bad feeling - spirit is undone
there's no coefficient correlation,
on the way without hesitation

im falling from grace
please watch this space

tried talking me down
to a paradoxical sleep
as counsel to the crown
time never comes cheap

one more analytical review
and another ghost to follow
saying 'it’s only up to you'
damn hardest pill to swallow

one foot on a plane
in my observation tower
there’s never time to save
i'm paying by the hour

i learn to play the game
i learn to run the hustle
if I only had the brains
the courage or the muscle

adapted rules

2008-01-11T00:43:00.010+01:00

don’t chase girls
don’t get too close
don’t ever get caught
don’t use polyphonic prose

don’t keep in touch
don’t touch yourself there
don't smile as much
don't use a nom de guerre

don’t get bought
don’t simply sell out
don't try and cannot
don’t ever fall into self-doubt

don’t get bent
don't just pretend
don't help torment
don't fuck your best friend's friend

don’t be gun shy
don’t open your eyes
don’t get up to high
don't o'er sensationalize

don’t be somebody else
don't be you that much
don't tighten your belts
don't loose that common touch

but if everything is just
the way it should be
if water is not dust
why am I still thirsty?

adapted love

2007-12-14T00:54:00.000+01:00

as strange as it may seem
I heard you in my dream
but i could not see what you do
where oh love where oh love can I find you?

i’ll search throughout the night
and hope that i might catch a sight
and hear you whisper again

adapted missing her

2007-11-11T00:27:00.003+01:00

happy screams in fields of green
their joy, their calm and luxury
are lost within the wanderings of my mind

like rings of waves in a pool of water
a copy of the mother's daughter
i'm drowning in my nostalgia

let's cut the branches from the trees
shaped by tears and memories
to exorcise that ghost inside of me

thoughts fill with darkened shadows
slow movements of shiny caddows
the music of songs long forgotten

plays a tune for time on end
invariably hard to apprehend
once there, now its all gone

i'll be loving you forever and ever
i'll be part of you in your endeavor
come into my mind so I can see

adapted annina

2007-09-11T00:23:00.001+02:00

i can fly
but I want her wings
i can shine even in the darkness
but I crave the light that she brings
revel in the songs that she sings
my daughter annina

i can love
but I need her heart
i am strong even on my own
but from her I never want to part
she's been there since the very start
my daughter annina

bless the day she came to be
angel's wings carried her to me
simply heavenly

adapted memories

2007-06-07T15:05:00.001+02:00

Bring your head against the wall
So I can see where I will fall
Bring your mind into my head
See my playing den instead

All in all it´s just a start
All we want is more than that
All in all I should go back
To where we started this out

Bring my head up to Mont Blanc
You will see what you will find
Bring my head against the wall
So you can see where I will go

All in all it´s not your fault
Made me feel respect some more
All in all I can´t go back
Be blind my mind inside

Be blind my mind inside

adapted travel

2007-04-11T00:32:00.000+02:00

in a plane to new york, london and paris
when will i rest, i'm living on top of it
it’s all that i have
the memory is my daily bread
and i'm not willing to share it

why can’t i see my fortune
living as legends have lived
insane and dismannered
i talk to myself all the time
knowing that nothing is left when i say

i am a fool

a direct hit of the senses and i am disconnected
it’s not that it’s bad - it’s not that it’s death
it’s just on the tip of my tongue, and i'm so silent

wanting to live and laugh all the time
sitting alone with my coffee and my crime
my children with kids, and my parents once did
but there’s no past and no presence
when the day comes and all i'm all alone
with all the enchanted people

when it's a rut but plenty of luck
most of it's misunderstanded love
the war i have won - i'm winning again
in myself and within my friends
time to move along

adapted photgraphs

2005-08-21T16:59:00.001+02:00

As far as my mind can see
There are memories approaching me
And to
those of you I left behind
I wanted you to know
You've always shared my
deepest thoughts

Bitter words mean little to me
Autumn winds will blow right
through me
And someday in the mist of time
When they asked me if I
knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine
And the
sadness would be lifted from my eyes

adapted father

2005-08-05T22:55:00.003+02:00

fate smiled as she came to my cradle
'know this child will be able'

destiny laughed as my body she lifted
'know this child will be gifted'

with love, with patience and with faith
'know this child will have a life without waste'

adapted 2 in the morning

2005-08-04T23:51:00.003+02:00

we went through the bedroom door
and loved without a mental floor

adapted waiting

2005-08-02T23:53:00.003+02:00

i remember the time when i was drifting
and the time when i settled down
it lifted our lives right up off the ground

we've been through some times together
with letters of memories and more still to come
we found love in uncharted weather
we never had to lie and succumb

you and i - we were tortured souls
our love so strong, we flew for days
we were perfect, we were giving
that's how we gave it all away

adapted thoughts

2005-07-30T23:13:00.002+02:00

lifeswimming and I deserve a quiet night
i'm not sure all you people understand what's right
it's not like years ago - a new daughter
and the fear of getting caught
on the recklessness of lifes rough water

you cannot see me naked
these things, they go away

replaced by the monotony of everyday

adapted dreams

2005-07-25T22:18:00.001+02:00

I am standing up at the water’s edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream
It can’t be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch
This place is so quiet, sensing that storm

Though I saw it all around
Never thought I could be affected
Thought that we’d be the last to go
It is so strange the way things turn

Drove the night toward my home
The place that I was born, on the lakeside
As daylight broke, I saw the earth
The trees had burned down to the ground

adapted hopes

2005-07-15T08:20:00.002+02:00

remember the memories to remember

i promise, the whole world be kind to you
i will teach you and you'll see it's true
that you are blessed
that you are touched
that you will grow in relationship to you

remember the people to remember

when youth is pushing you to desire
miracles you see in every hour
i will watch you and you'll see it's true
that you are beautiful
that you are gifted
that you will grow in relationship to you

remember the person to remember
as your eyes fill with laughter

one day you might feel the sun on your face
you'll know this was meant to be
i will protect you and you'll see it's true
that you are respected
that you are happy
that you will grow in relationship to you

i am thinking of you
i am always thinking of you