What's in my head - That I don't fully understand either...

This is not a game but it works as it
Like in a game, you need to know the rules
if you want to be part of it
All ignorants will be losers
Doesn't matter how honest they are.
I'm not a referee or a coach.
It's not my job to explain,
to warn, to fix people's mistakes.

People who already know the rules,
don't need to explain how good they are.
It will show on the field.
One day, we will be out of it.
Maybe you already are.
I'll accept to be a loser.
I don't need to tell myself a fairy tale
to feel better about myself.

I feel old. I become impatient.
Impatient to the people who are at my stage
Sometimes, I feel like I'm not where I'm supposed to be
But I look at this kid and I know.
I know I wanna be a father, doesn't matter where it will be.
I wanna teach him what I know, teach him what I couldn't do.
Make him happier than I am.
I know I want it but not at any price.

Weird is how I feel right now.
A mix of thoughts. An Image in my head. A song.
I remember this girl. 8 Years ago.
I don't know if I'm idealizing.
Probably I am. I wanna find her again.
But I'll be fine if I don't, leaving her on the top my pyramid

Right now, I wish I could talk or listen to somebody.
Somebody that would make more effect than the four walls of my room
Someone was right. I'm not myself. I never was.
There is no myself. Everything is all adjustments.
Have I ever had a choice?
Vietnamese, son of someone who left his country himself at 19.
Born in Belgium, grew up where I was almost like one of a kind and living now in U.S? What was she expecting?
There is no myself. There is me today. There will be a me tomorrow, sligthly different.

Sometimes, i know I'm cold, like frozen to myself.
It's not hatred, sadness or carelesness.
I would call it melancholy, spleen or whatever.
It's a feeling where nothing around seems to be real
nothing around has a meaning, like I'm alone in the room

I'm gonna stop here, and finish this Smirnoff...To be continued.


Anh Phi

What's in my head - That I don't fully understand either...

# Posté le mercredi 04 juin 2008 23:37

You...a bit like this chinese song

You...a bit like this chinese song
I just found this song
Kinda randomly
It's a beautiful song,
It goes pretty slow, quite simple
I can't understand it,
But I listen to it repeatedly
I really do like this song
Everyday, I try to imagine
what this song could be about
Sometimes, I think it's a love song,
Maybe a break up song,
Or just a sad song,
I actually really have no idea what it could be
But it just sounds perfect to me,
I don't want to understand it...
I like to listen to it everday.
I like to imagine a story everytime,
As I like to imagine that you are happy
Anything else, I don't wanna know...

Anh Phi

# Posté le mardi 20 mai 2008 10:38

J'ai trop de haine

J'ai trop de haine
Je ne suis qu'un jeune en colere
Qui se dit toujours etre dans la galere

J'aimerais mieux exprimer mon exasperation
Pour que les gens aient plus de compassion

Pourquoi ai-je tant de haine?
Pourquoi donne-je tant de peines?

Papa etait souvent en colere
Ne deviens pas comme lui, disait ma mere

Moi je suis en colere,
et me repete a moi-meme d'arreter de l'etre

J'aimerais tout envoyer petre,
et j'y repense a ces crimes que je n'ai pas ose comettre

Crime contre la normalite
Crime contre la superficialite
Crime contre l'egocentricite

Mais sois heureux et aies du succes, disait ma mere
et normal je deviens...amer


Anh Phi

# Posté le mardi 18 mars 2008 03:49

Une deuxieme chance

On saisit peu l'importance de la chance
quand elle nous vient...jusqu'au jour ou elle s'eteint

Comme tout le monde, j'ai fait l'erreur
de croire que j'etais la parce que j'etais le meilleur

Je compte bien me retrousser les manches
pour pas que ma vie se resume a une page blanche

J'en ai fini de contempler le mur et ne rien trouver,
trainer dans les rues et me lamenter

Je ne suis pas aussi fort que je le pretends,
la pluie cachait mes larmes depuis tout ce temps

Je ne passe pas de tests,
je n'ai plus besoin de faire de promesses

Je ne veux plus faire confiance qu'a moi meme,
j'ai bien vu ce que l'alliance de ma mere lui a apporte...que des problemes

Mais je la rendrai fiere, ainsi que mon pere
car je ne veux plus de ces galeres et toute ces gue-guerres

Je compte saisir ma nouvelle chance a ma facon, sans pression,
vivre simple et rester humble

Je me rends compte de ma chance et pourtant je me tourmente
mais voila, il faut que je me lance et remonte la pente

On mourira tous un jour,
mais je compte bien passer sur cette Terre le meilleur sejour
donner quelque chose en retour a mon tour
et qui sait, enfin connaitre...

Anh Phi
Une deuxieme chance

# Posté le dimanche 12 août 2007 19:05

Modifié le mardi 21 août 2007 12:39

Happy mother's day

Happy mother's day
I only remember the winters. I don't know why.
It was cold and she carried me in her arms.
I hided my head behind her nek.
I remember how she struggled.
She took a break. Too many bags to carry.
Then I just stood behind her to be protected against the wind.
I took her legs in my arms.
We suffered, but we were happy together.

I remember those nights during the winter.
I was waiting for her to come back from work.
It was so cold, but she was even colder.
And she carried me back to my bed, and would sometime falls asleep next to me.
I only know now that she used to work untill 2 a.m.

I remember some sunlights.
It's only when I came to Boston
That I realized that it was here. We escaped Dad.
But I did not understand why we went back.

Two Winters later, we were four in the family
But I never felt more lonely as I barey saw you.
I took care of him as I could.
But I filled my loneliness of temptations.
She was sad.
She made me promise that whatever happens in my life,
I would never smoke and do drugs.
And I never broke the only promise I ever made to her.

I remember how she cried when my second brother past away
And she took my other brother and went to Vietnam to take care of my sick grandfather.
She left for 4 months and time never ever seemed so long.

It was 13 years ago.
So many things have changed. To see where we were and to see where I am now, I can only say thanks to her. I did not understand why she went back to Belgium to go through so many dramas and did not stay in Boston.
I understand now why. I will be back too. I will be stronger as she became stronger and I will become succesful as she wanted me to be.

Happy Mother's day

Anh Phi

# Posté le mardi 12 juin 2007 15:11