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Daan Feb 2020
I, on and off, catch myself asking why
and hushing my worries by guessing: 'just try',
which fails to answer the question so wry,
what are we doing and does someone know why?

People have told me to just go along,
whatever happens, the bad makes you strong.
Others compared, saying: 'you have it sweeter
than most who are born and early on greet her.

Many have said:
'please, just go to bed'.
But that's where I cry:
'Thoughts, please, tell me why!'.

I reckon to crack on ain't no full-time solution,
there's many more worries, like death or pollution.
And sometimes my guess is: 'it's goals I should seek,
to chase after change, even just for a week.'

The passing of time, more delightful when doing,
asides the asks loved and the asks worth their booing.
It may easily be, it differs for many
or for some we don't know, there isn't even any.

Now when the asking is on,
I need it less gone.
When the asking is not,
I'm amused by the thought:
I'm probably doing
something worthwile.
And the 'no question, no bluing'
alone makes me smile.

Even if blurry, it all has it's aim,
there's just no instructions to life's little game.
Sometimes you ask: 'How do I live up?'
sometimes you reply.
They both have a purpose, so please do not give up
on asking the why.
There's ups and downs,
purpose and frowns.
My personal solution/long term goal is loving,
showing love and making others happy in whatever
way I can.

But it certainly is not particularly bad or good to question that sometimes.
Things don't have to be wholly bad or good.

Now and then, that's easily forgotten.
Daan Feb 2020
Binnenkort word jij geboren,
een jongensneusje, mond en oren
op een hoofdje lief en zacht,
onwetend van het ochtendgloren
en jullie gedeelde pracht.

Wat je ook nog niet kan weten,
is *** geliefd je nu al bent
ondanks toekomstige kreten
en dat niemand je al kent.

En *** zou dat ook, je moet
jezelf nog leren, jezelf nog ontmoeten
en de wereld nog begroeten.

Zodra ik je niet meer op mijn ene arm kan
dragen, weet je waar je heen kan met je
verwondering en mysterieuze vragen.
Daan Feb 2020
Love is scary,
not like betting,
a lot less dreary
and in a nicer setting.

It still is frightening
because of chance,
to lose this enlightening
essence called romance.

Once you have it,
you won't need more,
just can't go without it,
you know you're hooked right to the very core.

It can be polished, hidden, in frames and cuts
and boxes with lots of shining glimmer,
seemingly untouchable.
A simple cold could make it all grow dimmer,
simmering through the stems,
the second you lose these nuts,
your uncut gems.
You shouldn't gamble with the things you love.
Daan Feb 2020
What are dreams
when viewed as gateways
for those who hate days
and wish to escape to what seems
instead of their reality?

Tools of destruction, distinctive
from seductive safe havens
yet in short term not at all distinct.

What are dreams when seen
as just that, without having to lean
on pillows, nights and slumber?
Every trip is just a number.

Bring me home, bring me there
where I do not have autonomy,
where all I do is lie and nurture
and repair, somewhere I don't have to care
for others, me and melancholy.

Take me where it's right to say,
I'll follow, you can lead the way.
Would that be bliss or ignorance?
Wait, isn't that the same?

Leave me stretched about in nature's
clouds of wavy strands and teach
me how to stumble through the sand,
show me how to meet the beach
halfway through de land.

There are no shorelines in our minds,
there is no white or black,
knowing all these different kinds
may exist together, is something many lack.
Remember, remember, 1 trait or action does not make up the whole person.
Good and bad ar handy generalizations when trying to be quick.
When you're dealing with greater durations of presence, it's handier to form
some sort of network or spectrum. It's more complicated than that but it's the best we can do.
Daan Jan 2020
Today you can be happy
by working every day
you can be happy now.

It's not easy, being breezy,
the inconvenience of not being ******.

Sure the bads are there, the negatives, the minuses.
They'll float about, trying to kick
your senses out.

But there are pluses everywhere,
waiting to be found
by you.
And when all the minuses are ganged up on
by pluses
they're a lot less scary.
This has nothing to do with grief
or normal depressive reactions to bad things that happen

this is about every day life.
Daan Jan 2020
It's about what you want
and are
willing to do
to be
come
with yourself
let you guide you
to be better than you
and still you.

It's not that hard to do.
It's just a little tricky
Daan Jan 2020
As you well know it doesn't breathe
in fame nor fiction,
doesn't breed
in frames and friction.

It is on top
of all
elusive
as the flop
we all
chase
before we trip and drop
over our skip and stop
shoelace.

Few will rise and all will fall.
Everyone will find their roof
and bash into their gravestone wall.

There are no answers behind the stone
you meet
only in yourself, when open, grown
the ability to greet
humility.
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