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Jul 2014 · 376
Stay, now sit
Daan Jul 2014
I understand it wouldn't work.
And trying would make it bad.
A band can have two guitarists
but only one frontman, it's sad,

really, but I understand why.

Oh, friend of mine, carry me to
acceptance, when my feet hang,
dangle, when my legs lose angle,
push my body overseas, take me
to a place of peace, and island in
between, nothing to be seen, but
waves and clouds, colliding, turning
into one.

I'm not telling stories anymore,
what is wrong or what is different,
what is better, maybe left indifferent.
I told stories to fight the bore.

Unique, feeling, pursue that,
pursue it with passion as your
driver.
Wipe it off, use the doormat.
I want to be frontman, not one of
the guitarists
Jul 2014 · 388
Lone wolves
Daan Jul 2014
The more I get surrounded by
people with a weak connection,
the more I let myself feel lonely,
separated from the strongly felt
desires. A little longer, a little stronger,
a little warmer as my pieces melt.
I am the only, yet a fraction of my
realistic potential, though I am an
idealist. Losing you made me lose
that.
Used to living in a family

We need a little time to heal
too much time makes me think too much
I need time in which I have no time to think
in no time, my wounds would heal.
Jun 2014 · 488
The wrecked heart
Daan Jun 2014
I can't help but think
staring at the rink
when it comes that
it will never go, what
is life worth living,
lived only giving.

But i see it is my desire
like a bird on a wire
to repeat the past
longer does it last,
each time a little more,
a little deeper in the core
of my wrecked heart.
Put a new one in the cart.

Don't read in between,
take time for every line
until all is seen, mean,
let it sink and
understand
she will not be mine.
as if
Jun 2014 · 248
Just guessing
Daan Jun 2014
You turned my music against me
cut off everything I wanted to be
But who am I to blame another
I recognise the smell of my mother

scenting, spreading, everywhere you
go. Blindly do I follow, not knowing who
to find inside your mind. Hidden as
a pearl, but far more precious than it was

or could have been. At least, I thought so.
Guess again
Jun 2014 · 389
Pride
Daan Jun 2014
Our fortune is the open sky,
clouds come and go, and in our
darkest hours, stars come by
as shinier and they tower
high over and above us
thus
don't get frightened because
the road is long and boring.
along the way we choose
and we find exploring
to give us far more views.
cut me some slack
Jun 2014 · 343
Strangers
Daan Jun 2014
Similar shapes, creating a way right
through the mass of other similarities.
This evening soon will turn into night
leading to a whole bunch of hilarities
I stare at you, to notice you're already
looking. A warm and generous state
creates his own path. Is she going steady,
coming closer, every step, a step too late.

I'm leaving, she is heaving through the
mass. I'd have loved her, I guess,
and the staring, it's all part of the game.
If only I had caught her name.
love is just a bunch of numbers, some infinities are bigger
but the chances of hitting the biggest infinity
are rather slim
Jun 2014 · 365
The words
Daan Jun 2014
She carries the big umbrella, room for two
I want to
join in
laugh, walk
touch and talk
but she wants to stay
alone, I stray
in rain and wet
recalling everything you said
'I'm just not in love with you!'
They actually left your mouth
Now there is nothing left to do
but wait until the sun
comes out
and this will all be done.
whenever you don't want to hear them
Jun 2014 · 3.8k
caring is creepy
Daan Jun 2014
I can't stand to see your face
I feel as I invade personal space
and you hate it
The driver was right
I have to get you out of sight
because I can't stand to see your face
anymore.
Easily misunderstood, you are in the wrong here,
not me
let that sink in

shins

that look, Mr E

Obviously I was in the wrong... Fragile ego (2019 edit)
Jun 2014 · 439
The shrine
Daan Jun 2014
Attention unclaimed, easily distracted,
along the way I may have contracted
some sort of disease, nothing to please
my set of emotions, set out to tease.

They say time heals everything, but
I'm concerned it doesn't, afraid to shut
my eyes, as it passes, someone loved
dies, next thing for them is to be shoved

into the hole of bitter forgiving and forgetting.
Time is only just a pain killer, not letting
pain control, still the actual disease keeps
spreading. Pain was killed and shoved into a hole.

When I remember all the loved ones, all
those parted ways, all who left before
their final days, I shut my eyes and stutter,
when will I fall, my blood be drained in gutter.
Show loved ones your love
before it is too late
Maybe it's necessary to feel pain, to live we must feel and not close off
so don't hate pain when it's there, don't let time do what it does
clean your mind yourself
and enjoy actual living

Don't wheep, make someone proud
Jun 2014 · 199
Two long days
Daan Jun 2014
we don't know and we never will
we can only try to make it last
the grasp came slowly suddenly fast
There is so much and I don't want to spill
Still
It's stuck on a certain level, to take
it higher and firmly impact, make
you grow, I can only influence you though

It is like orange became green
the prettiest I have ever seen
combined to create one period of ease and understanding
a helicopter landing on my roof
there is no proof but I am sure
I guess I have to lure someone else into my trap
to sit on my lap and gently tap the feelings I have always shared
with words and silence
with stares and closed eyes
with the harsh punishment of being bound
being tied together
even better
being one

like green becoming orange, red and blue
I don't think I am in love with you
I just need you to be here or there
whenever I can no longer bear
the thought of being alone
thrown
into the wild
a comforting mild
hesitating care
don't you dare
to admit
that after all we'll sit behind screens for hours just to tell
if something once actually finished well
I yell
when I speak
I heard
I
stirred
Jun 2014 · 255
drained
Daan Jun 2014
watching me sleep, looking after me
when I wake up you are all I see,
a long shadow, wide and chilly
I don't know how long till he
has seen enough to conclude

interlude

It was strange and scary, how
I got afraid, but I accept it now.
When he was there I was sure
and safe, sound and so secure.

He left me yesterday, I saw him
slide out through the doorway
I didn't bother asking him to stay
I knew the chances were too slim

If he returns or not, even which is
better or if I really want, all that
it kept certain, is that I'll miss
every late night silent chat.
Don't say it, show it.
do you want to play a game?
scared in a good way
I admit
Jun 2014 · 487
Waxing
Daan Jun 2014
Wanting what we cannot contain
not needing what we easily refrain
from
now on I'll just wait and see,
and on and off it will always be
like magnets, turn around and attract
but run after and you get neglect.

If I pull away quick enough,
I'll be done with all this stuff.
Jun 2014 · 917
Puddles
Daan Jun 2014
You reek of sweaty tenderness
the kind with a soft and gentle touch
grabbing on to my nose pulling me up real
close much
like those
drips sliding
never letting go
until
they

drop


The harsh colliding of such
small and delicate droplets gives my rivers soothing shivers
as the so called divergent waves bounce
back and forth
against the edges of each cliff around high and steep

Time after time
these drops
scared to leap
do

enjoy

the


fall


In the end, they're careless of it all.
If I had a dog I'd name him Puddles
Jun 2014 · 1.3k
Bipolar
Daan Jun 2014
Bears are dying, making place
for animals of another race.
Best at adaptation, best to survive,
I have never felt so alive.

I showed my drawings to my
mother, she didn't care, but acted
like she did and I don't care either
cause my picture is awesome.
That is what truly counts after all.

Don't compare to others, compare
to former self.

Ask yourself, am I finally my best?
Am I failing the final test?

Right now I'm rocking it, buzzing
like a bee, high on his achievements, making honey.
I could be anything I want to be.
Except for the best. But I don't want that, just me.
Maybe I'll be the best at something. The best at being yours.
Jun 2014 · 252
Someone new
Daan Jun 2014
Next time all will go as planned,
I'm looking for a brownhaired freckled mess
and I'm sure as hell not settling for any less,
at first she is a plane unmanned,
but when I have come along
she'll turn into the perfect chaos of a song.

I'll learn the tabs and learn to sing
We'll sit together, the season after spring,
just sit and lean and watch a scene,
as love is growing on and off the screen.
She loves me for my actions and my jokes
doesn't care for buff and bluffing blokes.

One who will be worth the effort
the one
who stays.

She starts, I start, we started something to make it last.
She will be my last.
If I reject you, I'm not worthy.
When something ends,
something starts.
After all I want someone who's more than just sum
of her parts.
Jun 2014 · 269
Leave me
Daan Jun 2014
How can one give love without receiving
why does a part of me keep believing
you are perfect for me
Even when we're sure we'll never be

Is it the latching on to just have something,
instead of nothing
Is it because maybe this part is right
I worry and I stay awake at night

I think I'm sick
It is harsh when only
one is pained by this question
I don't know how long it wil stick
around

The part of me is wrong
If you don't want to hear me complain,
then leave me.
Because I am to weak to overcome
the part of me that does.
Do it right
Even if it's simple,
I am always afraid.
Jun 2014 · 457
Draw the line
Daan Jun 2014
Potential left to waste
I don't want copy paste
I'll draw the lines myself
too bad I never learned,
not afraid to be concerned,
never have I been.

But when the bubble bursts,
the new one blown will never be the same.
I hate the players, not the game.
I scrolled back, it helped.
CT from a certain 'date' on
Jun 2014 · 489
Regret
Daan Jun 2014
I don't regret that I loved you,
that I kept trying, I do.
It is the time of breaking ties,
stop the telling of those lies.
I'll regret that.
The laughing when she saw a cat,
the looking down,
the pity,
the storytelling, enormously furious, yet careful eyes.
I'll miss you.
I'll regret it.
true love is nothing but a failure of your brain
She wants a man, not a little boy in pain
not a guy, bursting into tears, a lad surrounded by fears
She wanted confidence and safety,
things I couldn't give
with or without her
I will live.
It would be the latter if it didn't matter, but it does
I regret that.
Jun 2014 · 663
being productive
Daan Jun 2014
Just to **** people off,
to tell them I write.

I wrote a poem last night,
you might not know, but
it's called being productive.

Ever heard of being productive?
You piece of horse manure.
Jun 2014 · 452
A jealous man
Daan Jun 2014
He is an ugly man,
hard to
connect with.

he gets neglected,
or plain rejected,
he doesn't see
what really matters

He is a catcher, angry at batters.

A man to avoid, a man who is better,
he does not fulfill any need, hopeless by
greed and troubled by green.
The last day he was seen,
he carried a stone, to resemble his heart
when he fell apart.
I wonder who will miss him when he's gone.
Jun 2014 · 380
Loneliness
Daan Jun 2014
A grip as firm as a pretty girl's stare,
he will demolish he will take care

He picks his victim, tells her to go,
she doesn't mind, the guy, left behind.

Starting to doubt, why even stay kind,
it doesn't help, it doesn't bother.
She doesn't want me, why would another.

Neglect a message, sit at home, call
something off, carelessly roam.

He only gets stronger, whatever you do
whatever you try, it will not work,
he will make you die.

Once I was happy, once I had hope,
once I told everyone with what I did cope,
I wish to not care, but I feel loneliness' stare
and gripping me tight, not enough strenght,
not enough muscles,
too weak to fight.

Loneliness,
I adore you,
I couldn't care less,
when I am alone,
I am a mess,
and useless too,
heartless as stone
I reclimb the throne

I am not lonely, I am
loneliness.
to be insecure and to be confident,
it's useless, they all want something different
stop caring.
Jun 2014 · 510
The staring
Daan Jun 2014
Perspective constantly changes when
you jump. The end pose makes your
view a little rusty. You cannot change
your final vision. I want to keep jumping.

Forever, never be a solid stone or dry
scraped wood. Wind makes me feel chilly,
I get shivers because of rustling leaves.
People call it fear of failing, my mind, downscaling.

But then I see a person, empty as it seems
not constantly thrilled by massive gleams.
I envy those who can control, those with
purpose and a whole different point of view.

Be my supplement, fulfill my instable needs,
enlarge my passion with such might, so I
don't need to learn control. My failure feeds
on insecurity. Stop my jumping, make me fly.
Please, make it stop.
I cried when I stopped staring.
Now I just stopped caring.
Jun 2014 · 406
Specific cure
Daan Jun 2014
Impatient,
action after action,
arrogance,
incapable
as
inner
organs slowly die.
I could just give you

a cure,
but you would not be satisfied
any more.
Let's talk, let's ensure the end is not that near,
it is though,
but it would only worsen in a state of fear.
Oblivious as always.
Jun 2014 · 441
Valuable or precious
Daan Jun 2014
A contrast so subtle almost all
those in its circuit forget and get
lost. On each side a pulsating wall
and the floor is drenched and wet.

My best and oldest friend gave me
this book. My girl gave me a page
marker. My brother gave me a book-
case. My mom the ends, to support.

Who am I to judge and say and
realistically tell my hypocritical view,
point and vision. The tape holds this
poster on the walls with extra glue.

The moistness almost made it fall.
It will, sooner or later, your call.
my question is not if, but when she'll let it touch the ground.
Jun 2014 · 485
Specific pain
Daan Jun 2014
Different direction, apart from the mass,
it's just a cold, patient, let it pass.
But let me check, one last time, I'll
see if it is certain.

I've grown a beard while

he was searching, read a book and wrote
a song. It won't be long, is what he said,
is what he said,
pass me the remote.

I have laid my eyes on you, countlessly,
but this will be my last,
a burden for a future past.
If this doctor says it's nothing,
go see a real doctor.
Daan May 2014
From nine to half past eleven did
I view what life was before my, our,
no, my, wait what?

We kissed in that new couch,
when we hid it was amazing,
when we ran, we ran for love,
to love and to forgive, we ran.

I jumped and crossed a border,
screamed my way out of it in French
got sprayed on by ex-friends
and now I stand alone, in my bathroom,
someone told me you don't do sleepovers with boys.
May 2014 · 3.5k
She skates
Daan May 2014
I feel her grip fading, slowly is
she leaving, hopping off the ice.
She says it didn't go very well,
but I couldn't say.
Speechless,
because she was so pretty,
impressed,
because she was so talented,
touched,
because she looked divine.
It hurts to think about it,
to accept she'll never be mine.

Time will pass and she'll forget,
we'll drift apart like we never met,
to me it's more than sight,
I have dared to love her with all my might
and cried because it didn't work.

I don't know what to change this time,
choice, my appearance, my act,
my voice, my talks, my jokes or walks.
What did I do wrong, this time.
She's gone
May 2014 · 393
The messenger
Daan May 2014
He ships and carries information,
brings from one to the other nation.
He knows too much about all and
nothing, he needs to tell why sand
is slipping, between *******, in
times of tipping over.

His time is left to waste, his face
is pasted, copied, pasted, same
mistakes and same feeling.
Every connection is a small one,
all they say are problems, he
has the same but can't speak.

A good messenger is speechless,
he writes it down and continues
his message, only ears and hands,
no tongue to call it a day.
Sometimes messengers **** themselves,
figure of speech, or not
they destroy their own
and are left
speechless, indifferent.
I wish to be indifferent about things.
Like she is, not like the messenger.
May 2014 · 395
To you
Daan May 2014
I've been crying myself to sleep,
been wondering what could have,
the tears are salty, my heart bitter.
I'm a quitter, halve this life, I weep.

I don't like you, I am blinded, but
what could have been is prettier
than the open-minded gut I share.
She is not unaware, she plays, a scene.

Let me go, this or that, no inbetween,
what I have seen and lived is worse,
what you have been is different, reverse

the irreversible. Taste the tears and bite
and swallow, until they all are gone.
Why, I don't want to, never, am I drawn
May 2014 · 525
Additions
Daan May 2014
Supplementary beauty, outside of
what we call our home, inside of
what we call our working space.
We can't stay here forever, it pays
to travel, it works out to change,
it helps to work and improve our ways.

Talents, oddities, special equipment,
all additions to the perfect creatures,
imperfect perfection is so perfect.

So if you ever find a mark in your book,
or a number in your phone, a name in
the back of your head. Don't hesitate,
reconnect with that addition,
it just might have been an imperfect
perfection.
May 2014 · 428
Crazy
Daan May 2014
Losing pieces, meeting long lost nieces
on the worst of family parties, lots of
family, much less party, I get drunk.

Meadows, long wet grass tickling my legs,
every single creature around here begs
for my inexhaustable attention, selfish.
The buzzing calls of nature soothe, me
not everyone.

I don't have to talk because it helps me,
I just want to talk to you, but I see
how it is.

My hands are tied, they say I lied,
my brains are fried, they say I cried
for help.
I got what I wanted, help, and nothing more.
friendship, love and connections are illusionary.
We talk to break the tension, we talk to feel better and happy,
but are we? I want to travel now. Go and be alone, discover me.
though I'm not good at being alone.
Like crazy.
May 2014 · 238
M
Daan May 2014
M
Her smell is stuck, my nostrils flare,
the clothes she will always wear,
the closed kindness to scare,
not a friend spare,
Oh where?

When will I?
Who would want to?
How will something be
just quite different but the same,
so I can start off yet another game,
May 2014 · 845
The ending
Daan May 2014
Today was a good day,
tomorrow is always a disaster,
tell her today.

Better off, her smell returned,
her cuteness left me concerned,
but her laugh and word,
escape the recurred.

I can barely even tell the truth,
unknown why I can not say,
dissapointed do I sleuth.

Enjoying the last bits of youth.
May 2014 · 243
The plot
Daan May 2014
I avert my eyes, I can not look
directly at the sun.

I go inside, I can not stand
the heat outside.

I go to bed, I can not stay
awake in this world.

I close my eyes, I can not fall
asleep with her

on my mind.
May 2014 · 239
Only darkness
Daan May 2014
Only darkness, nothing more, in times of blackout,
with the power down, I can't find my candles.

Stumbling, hitting furniture, though
my house is almost empty,
mumbling
curse
words.

I can't see anything,
do or be
anything.

Get me out of here. Not a single answer,
only darkness.
If it's a risk to love, if we don't know if it will work, what can we...
BUT IMAGINE IF IT DOES.
May 2014 · 409
Succes
Daan May 2014
I scared her away from me, intense
feelings, she can not understand I do.
A person searching, climbing on to
and holding tight, when he can not sense,
the words are mumbled, the fear gets
immensely strong, don't flee, stay
for just one other song. We say
it all will be okay. Once she lets
her passion flow, the fear will fade,
folded up and poured into a form,
made,
printed paper, still warm.
Dots connected, fears neglected,
succes.
May 2014 · 239
Goodbye
Daan May 2014
People rushing left and right,
sprinting to not miss the final flight.
Your face is hidden, suddenly in sight,
in between the people running. Overnight
my view has changed. It disappeared,
the view, the connection, the holding stare,
sometimes in my worst nightmare
it returns. My only flight, cancelled.
Too late to find another.
May 2014 · 193
Cries for help
Daan May 2014
A sun too bright, alone at night,
too much food for me to eat.
You are carried by such precious feet,
looking like the set of fears I couldn't fight.
Frightening eyes, stares and cries, out
into the emptiness, into all and loud.
Why are you not proud,
no one can read, do you feed
on agony?

Wreck me, nothing left, you did
destroy, and now it's to get rid
of me, my joy.
May 2014 · 271
Wait until it's over
Daan May 2014
In pain, in vain, my body starts
to tingle. When there is not a single
choice of yours to all the seperate parts
of you, it takes some time to mingle

vanity with depression. Every session,
every lesson, to sit and watch, a born,
so very born, strong and wealthy obsession.
I should have ran and long ago torn

myself away. I wish to control my adoration,
I want to choose with whom I fall in love.
Rejected by those and reject the others, elation
is my second motive. If I had only shoven

her away from me, when I could. Being none,
it's worse than being nothing, doings undone.
Waiting it out. Not taking part in any of my decisions.
Made, by me, wrong, not me, even worse.
Curse
this,
her,
all,
me
May 2014 · 1.5k
Bacon
Daan May 2014
I have eaten all your flesh,
left with only fat and bone,
forced to dethrone,
I long to refresh.
May 2014 · 304
I can handle
Daan May 2014
This loneliness won't leave me alone.
I am a bird, I have a lot of nests,
I need a tree.

Searching for another bird to share it with.
Nests pile up, a tree is needed,
and that other bird.

My tree is busy, my feathers frizzy.
Bookcases are half full.
I need a book.

The nests are not enough when laughing
gets tough, you need a book
and that other bird.
Can't I?
May 2014 · 283
I'm dying slowly
Daan May 2014
I wish I did not have to tell you what to do.
I need someone who does those things without asking.
I wish I had someone like you, who loved me.
I need someone to actually love me.
Appreciate me, please.
I'm breaking down on the inside.
May 2014 · 2.8k
I understand
Daan May 2014
I understand you now, I won't bother
you any
more.
:)
May 2014 · 248
Needless to say
Daan May 2014
I'm done trying, fairly to say,
I guess I was lying, you don't want me to stay.

Don't even bother, I said, I would do.
that doesn't mean I'm inexhaustible for you.

I've offered a lot, proceeded to talk,
hoped to impress,
nevertheless,
your answer was wrong.
Forever I'm stuck, listening to this song

It could have been different, but let's get it passed, so
I can move on, unfit to decide. I'll do it myself.

Don't sit here, it will be our last, don't ever
sit here
again.

I see you laughing, I hope it's real,
I hope you're honest to what you could feel
My chances are left, back at home, I'm moving
to the center, finally I'll live.
Daan May 2014
Down with the winds, down with all
covering blankets, take it all down.
I am hooked on things you frown
upon, carelessly, aware of the naked fall.

The fall is near, so very near, my eyes
were twinkling, godsent happiness and lies
mixed and all is good when he flies.
Strangely hidden, somewhere, he cries.

I believed and worried, remember that
it hurt. I believed and worried, recall
that I hurt. To be real, and love, is what
I mentioned, but I can only crawl.

Do you remember, do you recall, I plead,
begging to be your only, different, need.
May 2014 · 425
Series
Daan May 2014
On the edge of giving up,
rekindled, almost certain.
Grab a blanket, fill a cup,
put it on and close the curtain.

The marathon has started.
May 2014 · 310
This time
Daan May 2014
Mostly it's reversed, this time, not.
Rejection equals friendship in a way
unimagined. Now it's all I've got.
For the moment I notice, the second
I see, just when I know you'll never
love me. I turn it off, I cut it out.

The feelings disappear all at once.

I'll never look at this the same,
open my mouth with such unfair shame.
Of care I took and time I spend, hoping
to blend, in a different way, I guess I am
happy, and hope you will stay, a part of
my life, as a friendship resemblance.

I'll search again, for more prominence
in eyebrows, this time.
May 2014 · 1.3k
Molten
Daan May 2014
I'm an island, in a lake in a big
city. The water around me is deep
and foggy, the hills I carry, steep
but soft, even sinkier, dig
your own way out.

Or in,
making the mill spin,
caught a swimming trout.
With bare hands I touched
With bare hands I clutched

I was told to bend
not break.
I want to spend
more time to make

this work.

Inhabit my world,
enjoy my fruits and trees and nature
enjoy me, live me,
hair, uncurled, major
mistakes, set straight, be,
dare to be,
loved.
May 2014 · 346
Give it time
Daan May 2014
She skates, she trains,
she tells her story,
words stay behind,
people act all hasty.

I feel sorry,
Express yourself, I'll give time,
I just want to help.

I fear for worse times, what if
she loses ice and figure,
something bad
happens.

When this awkward oyster opens up,
the pearl inside is still unknown,
will it shine, will it glow.
She cannot be empty.
About seeds and eggs
about oysters
about the growing of cacti
stingy on the outside, guards
I want to reach further.
thick-skinned
uncontrollable bursting overwhelms
give it time and ice to
cool
off.
May 2014 · 515
I fell
Daan May 2014
Passing puddle after puddle,
chasing girls I'd love to cuddle.
But nothing is my option as
I walk past the growing grass.

The sun is blocked, the clouds feel
mighty as the supporting pillar
mightlessly tries, aborting his fighting squeal.
The stranger, the stayer, the stronger and stiller.

I worry a lot, for unpassed moments,
pages unreached. She says it's my fault.
In our stars it was written.
Now I feel cold, I guess I am smitten.

It started raining, feelings, cropped,
come out all at once, it finally stopped.
I am mortified by the choice I made.
It was wrong and I have to change.
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