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Mar 2015 · 401
Twisted
Daan Mar 2015
What counts as love if we are
sick and twisted minds,
one by one, after another,
but never together, ******.

At night you stumble through
at night I whisper closely,
what the hell has happened to you.
Why are you like this, ignoring.

While I was snoring, flirting,
waiting you never seemed to
think about me. Now isn't that cute,
rather rude, sleep arounder.

Accept for once, dear writing man,
the social norms are too strong.
Mar 2015 · 435
Perspective
Daan Mar 2015
His hand is steadily reaching out.
The bench is warm and seated,
one place winters power was depleted.
The hand has reached her mouth.

His finger slips on her upper lip.
Scarves become alive. Breath turns
vague. As if someone is trying to equip
them with knowledge. Their heart burns.

His mouth has arrived, his tongue
has followed. Cheek by cheek,
their love, so punctual and young.
Without thinking, no need to speak.

Her head, pulled away, her feet,
now cold, are facing another way.
The hand slided from her lips to her cheeks
to behind her ears, between her hair.
His actions whispered that he loved her.
And it was too much.
As those whisperings were swallowed.
Mar 2015 · 367
Stay
Daan Mar 2015
You roam my mind in shower,
as foam, you wash me. When drunk
you ferociously devour my night
with your sudden disappearance.

You weren't meant to stay, is what
I tell myself. My physics exam is a lot
like you, I thought I knew, but failed.
But I turn pale and my teacher helps me
out.

As seasons, as trains or cars, as blind wars,
you've passed and taught me one thing new,
the essence of a song is different with you.

Unorganized messes, god blesses those
like you. Deeply structured, so complex,
all in contact, she slowly and certainly wrecks
Slowly, certainly, wrecked
by a slow cheetah.
Mar 2015 · 676
memory lane
Daan Mar 2015
A walker sitting down for a rest,
dressed in yesterdays clothes,
thought and reminisced
about yesterdays abodes.

Lest it be that he is waiting
for winter to be over.
Looking ahead he spots
a road, he's never walked before.

Something drove her to mark her I's
with dots shaped as planets, so natural
and round.

The waiter sits as his walking side hits him with another thought.
One of tomorrow, one of risk, not safe and sound.

The sitter walks in time whenever he has to go, he goes.
He's patient for the best or nothing.
Mar 2015 · 470
sheep
Daan Mar 2015
I've been folding rough
and unwilling paper,
trying to make it beautiful,
a figurine for above my fireplace,
one for all to be seen.

I've been colouring its skin
turning it into a trophy
I would want to win.
And put on my cupboard
next to glasses I've assembled.

But water made my trophy fall apart
and fire burnt it straight through the heart.
Don't shape others
when you are not in shape yourself.
Mar 2015 · 411
merge
Daan Mar 2015
I want to read your mind
at all time, everywhere.
When you're doing your hair
I want to know, what you find
the message of this day.
And if I may I would add my thoughts,
let our thinkings sink in one.
Sea and sand, hand in hand,
eachothers guides, common
travelling lights.

But I can only guess and I
don't know how to make something like that
emerge.
Feb 2015 · 262
Research
Daan Feb 2015
A picture isn't worth a thing
when you're searching for someone
to defeat you. Never a thousand
words, never more than silence
in the streets.

Absorbed sounds, almost stolen,
when you find the one you need.
And you promised it would be
the last time. The last analysis.
We are all liars
we are all hypocrites
and all we are is lonely, only
sometimes together.
Feb 2015 · 275
Your name
Daan Feb 2015
In eyes we trust but shouldn't.
Girls I thought that wouldn't
ever do such things in front of me.
The bell has rung, all in favour but one
must pay. If I don't remember you,
not even by the stripes printed on
your outfit. If my own camouflage
will hurt my image. Flowers will
grow on the grave of how we're ought to
behave.
Feb 2015 · 274
Dropped
Daan Feb 2015
Broken glass, everywhere,
stepping with shoeless feet
crawling through to meet
the girl across and over there
the place where clean and neat
statues stand and dream.

Behold this world like no other,
enjoy the fruits and thank its mother.
You'll understand when the time is right.
Feb 2015 · 354
Fact
Daan Feb 2015
I tell myself to care less
about losing to someone else
and start winning for myself.
The biggest treasure a man can find
is sudden knowledge of his own relief
and elation, happiness, money or relation
or the broken being benching by brothers before baffled
station.
Get well soon, my broken tragedy.
I lost the need to project my point of view onto others long ago.
forcing things will only cause reactation.
Feb 2015 · 497
Opinion
Daan Feb 2015
The household never did
listen, follow the rules, always
he never knew how to rid
himself of seedless prays
effort but useless days
in meaningless lives.
And his gods were almighty
allthough they never gave him the sight he
desperately needed.
He hoped his prayers finally were seeded.
I don't know who's predictable
and who's the puppet.
I guess it's up to those who fail to believe
to live a life, certain but full of grief.
Feb 2015 · 388
Gone
Daan Feb 2015
Slightly and then all at once,
every time I give this love a chance
I wake up in relief but sorrowed
by the moment we have borrowed.

From movies, from stories and books
pretending to be infatuated by looks,
only to be left with doubt and nothing.
All I have is nothing and it is too much.

To gently say goodby or wave and smile,
rekindling, every once in a while,
whatever there was to be felt,
knowing now it was not here to stay.

New, you, known or somewhere in
between. If love has grown or suddenly is seen.
That's what matters.
As long as it's never really gone.
Feb 2015 · 303
sleep
Daan Feb 2015
I crave your presence
as if it was the only thing
keeping me alive.

Keep me alive and well
I need you to survive, your smell
and lovely presence
is my food and shelter.

I crave you as my morning bed
I love the way you said
good night, I love the way
you sleep so close
just one door to the right.

I adore you as if I were winnie
and you were my jar. The honey
would be flowing, leaving, but
you would never be far.
prohibidado
Feb 2015 · 364
The greater distraction
Daan Feb 2015
Once the smoke hits the lungs and
you picture it hand in hand
with the sight of her adorable gaze,
you know you'll be in trance for days.

Merely laughter, merely the exchange
of looks and guesses feels strange
enough to question if this is what you
live for, what you were made to do.

Love her, fiercely but quietly, quite
lovely, fairly touched and very bright,
make her know she is worth the fight.

Was it ever more than certain, like this,
the things you hated, the flaws created,
will turn into the greatest that you'll miss.
Jan 2015 · 391
The great distraction
Daan Jan 2015
the stairs were slightly changing
and I can not explain
the capacities, ranging
from heavenly to worth the pain

the walls were bending
and I have no clue
of the message she is sending
or those I send to you.

the door is open yet not
wide enough, slipping through
or away, both possible
and both I wished to stay.
Jan 2015 · 923
Repetitive
Daan Jan 2015
Phonological loops,
again, again, again,
promises about change.

No semantic processing,
just a shallow layer of gold
topped with dust.

It's because I'm stuck for what seems like an eternity
in this 'awake at night fraternity'
where I do everything and loneliness is king
of all the dancing parts where one is forced to sing.
Where is the dock of the bay?
I have some sitting to do.
Jan 2015 · 307
Just one
Daan Jan 2015
One can be all there is,
the first of all the ones that come,
the one all this
time you knew was right.

One can be too much to handle
or not enough if you are greedy,
and not for you if you are needy.
With the power out, one candle
may not be enough to light the house.

But one little shining star
along the mass of grey, or green in war
with black, can be enough to brighten up
the park at night. One light to make the road
less scary.
It's all about point of view.
Jan 2015 · 397
Priorities
Daan Jan 2015
I wish to whisper in the ear you picture
him
nibbling on.
I try to make it easy, to help
you
understand, just what it is
to feel so bright, picturing a kiss,
before it even happens.
if it ever happens
I guess I'm just old fashioned,
though I appear the opposite,
sometimes.
Jan 2015 · 395
A walk
Daan Jan 2015
A daydream at night
love at the very first sight
sinking, making home
wherever wildly I can roam.
The change itself gets your attention,
attached and gone.
It's greedy to keep the road
your own. Passing lives like
days and loving until it pays.
With effort and a will
you won't get anywhere still.
you can increase the chance, but you'll never be sure.
Jan 2015 · 390
meaningless lives
Daan Jan 2015
People confess to me every day
and I can't take it anymore.
I have gained respect for people
whom I never knew before.

This will be my job, later
or I can become a waiter,
not a writer, because a
hobby so scarce, should not become
an empty promise.
How can one be so cruel.
Jan 2015 · 489
Repeat
Daan Jan 2015
Repeat me, keep the cycle going,
endlessly rowing up a waterfall
or when my mother feels the urge to call
all day and ramble on.

Rehearse, retry, redo, start over
and over, be gone, come back
and try again. When I'm gone
you'll miss the roaring sound
my belly makes, or our cats
when the dog mistakes the sound for food.

Laughing nor purring will make you feel
the same as I do.
Jan 2015 · 533
Perseverence
Daan Jan 2015
The instruments, ruined, in the back,
away from all potential visitors,
even though they're the best you
ever held. Their authenticity is gone.

Your voice seems small,
even though your mouth is tall.
You say too much but mean
too little, stay back.

Stay away, you are too close,
I can't move now, I know she knows
I'm a sad waste of time, and I
don't deserve her. She'll hurt you
without noticing, she's too good for
intended pain.
My cactus died, I gave it too much water.
Doubting *****.
Jan 2015 · 559
The balcony
Daan Jan 2015
I've been comparing the
expensiveness of the clothes he's wearing
to the level of his unconditional caring
and there is no correlation.

I'd rather stare around, talk
or laugh on that perfect balcony.
But if I ever pass the cold grey stones
and the buds of cigarettes again,
it'll trigger the emotions of a moved, changed man.

As I stare right through you,
as they did, as they will,
I notice I am just as wrong.
But that's what happens when the storm is strong
and the home you've tried to build
on the hill is struggling to stay still
on the day of reckoning.
You do know that judgement is not a one way street, don't you?
Jan 2015 · 406
Pretentious
Daan Jan 2015
She had the guts ro rob me
of my most important days
for now. She didn't even say
why she left.

She wanted to get rid, afraid
to start another role, enlargening
her lies, making it harder to
accept herself.

I'm guessing the best forms
of inspiration are those
like storms, heavy, strong
and not that long. In time
she'll understand.
What once was so precious
has turned countless
Jan 2015 · 480
A day in the life of
Daan Jan 2015
Divergent gabor patches,
now go and find the snake.
I bet you'll never search
as much as I did.

I know you will never
understand how a simple snake
kan raise the stakes.
When they search it never takes
that long before they break.

And when you think the line is done,
there is yet another patch
to make you reconsider.
Jan 2015 · 383
The big picture
Daan Jan 2015
You want two cellphones with
different functions, and a clock
that doesn't work.

A tessellating, complementary work
of art but you're glad with what
you have. Someone to talk to over pizza.
And another over some wine.

It's never what it seems when you're
insecure, always inconsistent.
And a clock that doesn't work.

Who draws the lines and why do
they put them there?

We all do, because we always have.
I saw god today, it made me realize
that he does not exist.

There are two sides to everything, at least
as far as we know.
Jan 2015 · 375
Naive
Daan Jan 2015
Whenever she speaks I can't
help to be amazed, by whatever
it is that she just phrased. Clever
in words and clever with timing.

Climbing higher every sentence,
further every word
and there is no clue of her intentions.
Not a purpose I have heard.

In doubt I put things in perspective
and I realize that doubting was
unnecessary.  I am no detective
collecting everything she does.

I wish I was able though,
to do so,
and be a fitting other side
for whom she has nothing to hide.
So lovely, when they're so naive.
Jan 2015 · 456
The coon
Daan Jan 2015
He misses being in love
nothing else to think of,
******* in the ropes of affection,
he mops the lost perfection
of the girl he once adored.
Jan 2015 · 369
A trip in mind
Daan Jan 2015
Floating foam like memories,
your eyes they roam,
the rest is perfectly still.
A breeze, so chill,
your breath,
focus, inhale, exhale,
hands and feet are pale.
The melody lingers in the back,
the tension is a code to crack.

It requires skill to feel,
deeply, real, carefully
open the seal, reel
off. Off course and sail
away from todays tale,
like foam, floating, like memories.
I could have used clouds.
But i couldn't help taking a bath.
Jan 2015 · 463
My chair
Daan Jan 2015
I sat there, for ages it seemed
waiting for my punishment to end,
to be redeemed.

My torturer is only doing the job
she was given. She tries to send
forgiveness to the angry mob.
In heart a word has risen.

You may leave this wooden prison
if you promise you'll never sob
again when your king hits
his queen or when she is abused.

But I refused.
Now here I sits.
Children are like development in progress.
Harming the process harms the product.
Jan 2015 · 316
The waste & the spilling
Daan Jan 2015
The worst leader of this decade
has lead the worlds will to fade
to rise above the will to grow.
Lower the bridge and let them bestow
upon you the way of reason.

The people fear their mighty leader
the anti-hero of a nation, the feeder
of their children. But they're wrong,
he should be stripped of power.
Where all see he too is wrong, no
one dares to tell him so.

And they fell in demise
for being too wise
and lacking the skill
of understanding social thrill.
Jan 2015 · 347
Horror
Daan Jan 2015
Relatively speaking, different
things amaze me by their
origin.
I can not express
how life would be
with any less
of this obnoxious inconsistency.
I don't believe in the loss of freedom
believing will make it happen.
Jan 2015 · 547
'Justice'
Daan Jan 2015
They pulled out his eyes, because he had seen
too much.

They blew out his brains, he must have
known too much.

Blind and braindead was their thought
now it was reality.

And they cut off his tongue
for he had said too much.
When you think, not know, you act as if
the difference fades, the first will go, let that sink.
touched by the greatest weapon
broken
pens
Jan 2015 · 321
Creative
Daan Jan 2015
We are all, in need of drama
searching for the most tense appearance
in a denser panorama.

I'm afraid of raising my own family
I have so much control
You can point your actions
to turn them in a better actor
for every single role.

We lack, he approves
we try to fill it up with empty moves
to make a better sound
to fake and turn around
the actions that we found.

We are conditioned like a hound
to work for a treat, deeds for conformation
and create an unreal feeling of elation.
Survival of the fittest influence leads
to hallucinating that this is right to do.

An illusion most complex,
so deeply structured, in a way
it wrecks and causes constant disarray.
People are shaped by society
I believe I don't know what to
believe
I'm going crazy.

From 'Biases you can't control'
Jan 2015 · 402
Agreement
Daan Jan 2015
On the first of every
januari
we will meet again
and again.

We discuss, walking
or cycling, whatever it is
that keeps us going.
Whatever it is that keeps us sane.

Acceptance is underrated,
to accept one another
truly
for this, so long I waited.
At last, an agreement.
Dec 2014 · 285
Slow
Daan Dec 2014
How can I go slow when I
am sure that it is you.
How can society ask me to
keep it casual when I'm
sure I want to get close.

I know you're right, I have to lower pace
love is not a race, love is not about being fast.
It's a marathon of perfection.
I get the feeling, attraction
never liked me back.
Dec 2014 · 227
Perception
Daan Dec 2014
Sometimes we need to be alone.
Drop the act and state the fact
that we don't know what our performance lacked.

Was it the impression that I gave
the one of disinterest
or the way I did behave?
Please answer because this is not a test.

I'll have to figure out without your help
but I'll get nowhere.

Know that I tried
before I leave your sight,
remember that one night
when we sat outside
and talked about your favorite concept.
Dec 2014 · 371
Traditionally
Daan Dec 2014
On big days like these I think
extra hard and long about the meaning
of a song or the missing link,
the mystery that's leaning
in and whispering closely to your ear.
So very quiet but just loud enough for you to hear.
Do it, is what it says. And you get conscious,
you get a little curious. Furiously do you
want to know.

And when you find it
you deperately want to show, all and anyone
what it is, this marvelous revelation,
this heartstimulating, sensational relation.
The connection that you seem to see
it's personal and means more than anything to me.

All the unfitting things that take over apart
from this concept, kept ruining the troubly vision
that you have. Faith was losing to the misperception
of this world.

I miss you, lover, I miss you, family,
I miss you, friend and stranger, hovering
closer and closer to me. I'll miss you but you're free.

They don't understand, but why would they.
They live without the burden, the outcast feeling
that you have or do they hide it, I don't know.

I miss you, stranger, why'd you have to go?
Dec 2014 · 468
Love actually
Daan Dec 2014
The more I know you
the more I don't.
The woodworks might is fading
in dust and cracks bading.
How I wish I could revive.
God, I would do anything to keep
this embodiment alive.

But change is inevitable and all
I can do is confess my love for you
and hope for the best.
Dec 2014 · 1.2k
Cut onions
Daan Dec 2014
Another morning up too soon
for the alarm clock to go off.
Another day to turn out rough.

Fishermen with new methods of baiting
tell me, teach me what it is to wait,
to patiently create
a small chance of catching
the right fish for tonights meal.

Any sound can obtain a meaning.
Any message can be leaning
towards another point.
Dec 2014 · 674
Overcompensation
Daan Dec 2014
I am scared of miscommunication
taking away the elation
of utopic conversation.

I'm not afraid of emancipation,
not on my toes for equality.
I'm horrified by overcompensation.

Our youth hardwires us into some basic
identity, from then on we may choose.
I ask myself what life would be like, if everything was equal.
I prefer the high bridge.
Dec 2014 · 853
Event
Daan Dec 2014
Mozes split the sea
one side, you, the other me
my focus kept from widening
perception almost frightening
I could only stare
waves returned, colliding
responsible for guiding
Mozes did not care
about dividing
or possible providing
Dec 2014 · 687
A remarkable garden
Daan Dec 2014
Change is fluent,
after a while
your passion turns truant.
Like your smile
when you recognize
the persuant:
Doubling the amount of water
did not double this plants size.

A revolutionary type of slaughter.
Haah, the power of influences.
Makes you wonder.
Dec 2014 · 448
Inconsistent
Daan Dec 2014
I met you in the hallway
the other day
when you were cleaning.

I've been looking for a meaning,
a reason of some kind
an excuse to make you mind
my existence.

But we seldomly cross each other
and I am not used to the pressure
that comes with talking to
beings as pretty as you.
The world is random,
you'll know when something's right or not
she is
Dec 2014 · 364
purpose
Daan Dec 2014
Healthy is a different word.
It does not help the living.

Healthy is a strong word.
It does not suit the giving.

Being raised by people, risen,
it's a gift to those uncertain,
a curse to others, cut off,
by unspreading, closed curtain.
requirements: open mind
Dec 2014 · 343
Associations
Daan Dec 2014
My mind is mapped, regretful
were you trapped
in regions with less much ado
therefore I say goodbye to you.
Weak links fade
Dec 2014 · 464
Irreversible
Daan Dec 2014
The second chance to make
a first impression. After you fake
a heart attack, you dread
a real one, fearing what's been said.

The choice does not only cost
you time, to reconstruct, rebuild.
You can never make up for once fulfilled,
the other life, the time you lost.

Not all is random, but all else is.
The only thing you do control,
is the choice of which role
you play in what is bound to be.

After all it happens, in a loop, unending,
a spiral and you, your beliefs defending.
without effect
Dec 2014 · 381
high cue
Daan Dec 2014
Her presence triggers
all I did contain is free
I wish I could lead
Dec 2014 · 696
Spicy seasoning
Daan Dec 2014
Almost winter and I still
don't have a backup plan.
Yet, there is time left to spill.

Even when there is no chance you can
or on the other hand,
when you know you can't.

It's nice to have something just in case
somewhere to escape to
some kind of a fireplace
far away from risks.
I don't need you now,
but how long will that last.
Dec 2014 · 393
Disarm
Daan Dec 2014
Take my focus, drain my
attention. Disarm me like
autumn does with trees.
And leave me in complete and utter peace.

Too much to handle, too good
for me, and high and above,
I don't even dare to call this love,
maybe it's only some kind of mood.

How I want what I can't get,
but downgrade all I'll never have.
And you're in between. How we met,
what we say and do, so small yet

you disarm me with your every doing.
And I can't help but keep persuing.
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