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401 · Jun 2014
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.
400 · Jan 2015
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
Daan May 2016
Remember when we used to just watch things,
stare at them, make them precious in our heads.
We lined up every single one.
We sat and scribbled on the back of paintings.
We pushed stuff together, our beds,
our lips. Now all we do is run.

The best part was when my heart rate went up,
the worst when I lost the need to hear
your voice.
398 · Dec 2016
Vanity
Daan Dec 2016
Saddening how we read for lunch
and talked for supper.
Boring how we sit and write and crunch
our numbers.

We will stand up for one day soon
to celebrate our meaningful hour
and turn to a meaningless moon,
to hide,
to ask it to devour
the latest pinch of a feeling that almost slipped through
and got inside.

As we stand on edges
as we think about the fall
and the message it alleges
we grow weary of it all.

It's sad, the lives we're living,
how we ruin all we're given.
Sadly we will all be driven
to depriving
insanity.
Amnesia (alt. title)
Solving puzzles
running
no building or creativity
just escaping the horrible reality
that made us ask how.
398 · Jan 2015
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.
397 · Jan 2015
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.
397 · Jul 2015
Sacrifice
Daan Jul 2015
Beyond collaborations of strokes of brushes,
so much more than arranged word gushes,
she was a shipwreck off a rocky coast,
the work of art truly worth the most.

Different eyes adored her in different ways.
Still every lock of hair remained in place.
Humble in the walks she took, taking
every sound as evenly rare in making.

She was a mirror in a brighter light,
a piece of me returning, burning,
yet less prominent with every night.
I've lost most of it except the will to
396 · Mar 2015
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.
395 · Mar 2014
Tons of similarities
Daan Mar 2014
Starting, all of a sudden, an easy, yet challenging win
I just can't comprehend what went down,
how this could have been,
slightly more brown of skin,
just what, why the gown
or why this dress?

I started it, now she started it, I guess
we're starting something.
This girl, she is a work of art and I don't want
any less than every part

I've dreamt of this to occur,
thousands and thousands of times before
never ever did I expect, even more, this,
for some way to connect
hardwired, complicated structures, not just blending, but
melting together, but this is just, possibly, the
start.
I hope I can, for just once, not be the coward I always am.
At least the view is pretty, I'm so shallow and vain.
394 · Oct 2014
Team S
Daan Oct 2014
Connected by their names, loved
by their remarkable frames.
Frames covering their face and
thought.

For more than one have I fought
to notice that this sum of parts
cannot be defined on charts.

Unable to express, dysfunctional mess,
like home, where things are weird,
but just the way you like it.

Like home, like jungle puzzles,
my love for one, wolves with muzzles.
keep it to yourself
393 · Sep 2019
M'n druifje
Daan Sep 2019
Ik wilde jou zo graag bewaren,
wilde jou het liefst verstoppen,
achterin en zonder maren
morgen onder soppen,
brood en ei, verlossen
van die koel verlichte plaats delict.
Helaas, je bent ontdekt, met tros en
al verorberd door mijn broer, gelikt,
geknabbeld en gegeten in de rappe,
bij thuiskomst, na een avondje stappen.
You ate my sandwich? My sandwich?!?!

I call it: 'the moistmaker'
391 · Jan 2015
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.
391 · May 2013
The ball in my court
Daan May 2013
When the late snow in may has yet to melt.
Underneath earth's skin, flowers, ready to grow
try to push their way to the top. We all know
and we will never forget what that really felt

like, trying to grow, being pressed down.
Quite some chances I'll be doing that soon.
With only one thing blocking my road,
easily dealt with, hard to confront, me.

Maybe it's all coincidence, no way she,
regardless the signs I'm sure I saw, brown
eyes staring deep into my galaxy, slowed
movement, travelling further than just the moon.

The ball is in my court, I have to react except
if now she accepts what I keep refusing to accept.
391 · Jul 2015
Or night
Daan Jul 2015
I'll be a wreckage in the morning
and the day after.

Combined it will exceed,
emerge out from the rubble.

An influence in
a change forever to be
reconstructed lives.

Interactions spelled backwards
unraveling in codes.

I was a wreckage in the evening
and the day before.
It will snap one day.
390 · Nov 2017
Verschoven
Daan Nov 2017
Al even durf ik niet te geloven,
onder ogen te zien,
wat er allemaal verschoven is.
Ik mis routine, moet mezelf terug
kunnen verliezen in zaken
om ze achter de rug te weten geraken.

Ik heb moeite met onzekerheden,
waarschijnlijk door gebeurtenissen
uit mijn overdreven, zacht verleden.
Enkel zo kan ik een voor een de dagen wissen,
de tijd van toen terug missen
kortom niet langer
mijn levenslust vergissen.
Vergulden avond, zachte nacht,
verloren ochtend, pracht van dag,
ik mis de kracht van mijn eigen lach.
390 · May 2014
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.
389 · Oct 2016
Codeine
Daan Oct 2016
We fell asleep
Not that far away, separated.
I assured you
You could come and stay.
Gray
Areas, ambiguous designs,
My common sense resigns
Denies its whole existence
Evaded
Its persistence.
We fell asleep
After talking without touching
Without walking
Closer
We fell asleep.
Cough cough
Persuaded
389 · May 2015
Sudden soulmates
Daan May 2015
Our souls left our mouth, blending
like winter breath. Chemicals sending
signals obvious as colour of your skin
and eyes. The eyes my eyes are taking in.
In the smell of every word we speak,
the softly prominent smell you reak
of. Of every person, all or everyone around
it would turn out to be you. I wound
up with these flaws all tied together.

May we influence one another to be better.
I touched her hair and felt her blushing
Through her veins, 't was ****** rushing.
389 · May 2014
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
389 · Sep 2013
slow reader
Daan Sep 2013
Is he savouring the words,
enjoying every bit?
Is he annoyed and does
he hate reading?

Nobody knows,
but the books he tries
to read are out of his league.
388 · Jan 2015
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.
388 · Oct 2014
Potential
Daan Oct 2014
I decided to be lazy
and in comfort,
while I could be planting
love and growing experiences
like crazy.

While I could have studied,
worked for days,
have gratification,
on me bestowing
an honest to god translation
of matter to mind.

Behind on tasks
I did not choose the latter,
I decided to be lazy.

Maybe I am crazy
Love is an excuse for people who lack the looks or the confidence to meet up with their instincts.

And it's a **** good one
sometimes
388 · Feb 2015
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.
388 · Feb 2017
Smug
Daan Feb 2017
Arrogance, high-pitched laughter,
hiding behind some old fashioned
movie smile knowing you're a fraud
yet pausing and waiting for people to applaud.

Manipulatively working your pawns
for comfort, for egoistic measures,
abusively, but too easy to stop.
You're an actor, live performer,
liar and a former sizzling fire.

It's tempting and intriguing, it's deceit,
how you mistreat your minions,
unethical and wrong and you are aware
your mind's wellfare is based on other's opinions.
It's pathetic, really.
Watch out for unhealthy progressions
387 · Apr 2015
Robin
Daan Apr 2015
There she sat, across me in this train compartment.
She was a lot like I recalled, daunting,
how she almost, besides changes in deportment,
stayed the same. I forever keep on wanting
to tell her the truth.

All we do anymore is say hi,
while we used to talk for hours,
it has become easier to say bye.
There are greater love stories than ours.

It dazzles me to come across the facts,
we care less and less about the acts
so poorly put aside.
I think I lost, my love, so I'll let it slide.
Not robin
386 · Sep 2013
the body
Daan Sep 2013
A man, walking up to another man,
while the wind blows snow to places
it would normally never reach. I dare
you to find someone who can

laugh right now. ' He slipped, sir.',
said the man with 2 daughters and
a divorce. They are twins and about
4 years old. But nobody knows or even

asks how the trial went. 'There is not
a thing we can do, wrap up people, we
are leaving', yelled the man without
friends or family or even a pet. Shivers

all over my spine as I split the bushes,
you found me, congratulations, you won.
384 · Jul 2014
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.
383 · Jun 2014
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
382 · Mar 2015
Forgotten
Daan Mar 2015
Your wretched eyes were truly
speaking, so very struck by the unruly
life you lead. The tears were wrinkles
and the shine your unreal smile.

One moment were these lines
in crossing. The best of signs
are those so very soon forgotten.
Because in a moment of distraction

you vanish in a crowd as loud
as screams your eyes emitted.
I'd do all to make a smile appear,

a real one, meant and felt but not
intended. Spontanious in the heat
of the moment would your pain be.
I just haven't met you yet.
380 · Aug 2017
Tweestrijd
Daan Aug 2017
We zaten per twee in een kring
op een wei
in een weerstad
die eens per jaar weer
wakker wordt

Elk van ons bewapend met een fles,
een blik en een stoel.

Het duo met de kortste drinkperiode
kreeg een prijs aangeboden,
allerminst een die tot beter leidt,
gevoelloosheid.
380 · Mar 2014
Closure
Daan Mar 2014
When no answer is more meaningful
than any reaction could have been.
When all this time I wasted seems so cruel
I'm out of tears and out of fuel.

I want to go away, take a cab to a station
to find a plane to travel to a distant land.
I could see myself sitting, for hours, just like I did before
but now reviewing, instead of hoping.

When the grass is not green at all
on this side, I don't care and lie down.
I feel so small, this one stalk is too
but all around the world they're bigger.

The dream is gone, the winds have stopped blowing,
everything is frozen, immobilized, like me
the minute before I realized
and the minute after
she was
gone
Well what do you know, what a coincidence, the arrow is pointing down
379 · Jan 2015
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.
379 · Dec 2014
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.
379 · Sep 2014
The fork
Daan Sep 2014
Two signs deciding the direction,
with one a subtle, strong connection,
the other is a question mark, both
roads seem so perfect. And you loath
making a choice.

But the choice will make itself in time,
you see, when plants are trampled, lines
of death, you assume your pick is solid
when the one you didn't take was squalid.

Stop assuming ****.
379 · Oct 2014
Buy me
Daan Oct 2014
I need to buy
soft but steady
I'm not ready
to tell the salesman what I want
to make an order
to answer the man in the recorder.

I took for granted, granted that I was not aware,
appearing obsessed with such kind of flair
that I did not even dare
to say
who I really am.
I am not an escort, you can't actually buy me.
378 · Jan 2015
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.
377 · Jun 2014
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.
376 · Feb 2022
On when to live
Daan Feb 2022
Living for the future
to once live without a care,
it's a complicated suture
when you might not make it there.
tie nuances together
376 · May 2018
Verdoken
Daan May 2018
Na heen en weer en her en der gestuurd te worden,
het horen van de straat en zien van duizend borden,
moest ik me even afgezonderd voelen, alleen zijn,
zalig, zielig, eenzaam, op en af koelen
in de zachte wind van mei.

Mijn hoofd is klei, mijn handen zacht.
Ik heb geen dag gewerkt en dat ook nooit verwacht.
Maar vroeg of laat droogt het op en zit ik vast
in onveranderbare vormen.

Lijden volgt op volgen van de normen,
hoewel afwijking ook kan storen,
ruik ik liever met mijn oren
of zie ik met mijn tong.

Zong de vogel ook maar in de winter,
sliep ik ook maar voor middernacht.
ik droom meestal later maar vind er
nooit iemand die lacht.

Ik sluit me op om te ontwaken
uit de vloeiende stroom van onbeïnvloedbaar gedrag
wanneer mijn uitgewanden staken
en ik genoeg heb van de dag.
Slaapwel
375 · Dec 2014
high cue
Daan Dec 2014
Her presence triggers
all I did contain is free
I wish I could lead
374 · Apr 2014
Confusion
Daan Apr 2014
Standing in front of the fridge
staring at the food, unlikely to
like it, but hungry, so hungry, do
I take it just to have this itch

scratched? This moment is my only chance
the last time that I will glance
will tell me what to do or say
do I take this offer or should I stay

away from tension, possibly bringing
forth the hurt and pain of what's
never to regain, it's never the same.
I just listen and blatantly start singing

Along with the songs of love, that's
the error here, to me it's just a game.
I don't know what I want, really.

How should I..
who should I..
why should I..

STOP
373 · Sep 2014
Illusions
Daan Sep 2014
Trusting your eyes or ears,
being captivated by a sum of fears,
not the perfect path of perception.
The answer might cause you perplexion.

Enjoy being naive,
only when you feel secure.
Because if only then you do believe,
you adapt to anything unsure.
Don't be afraid to learn a thing or two
372 · Dec 2017
Splinters
Daan Dec 2017
Ook ik verlies wel eens controle.
Mijn rust is dan aldaniet bewust ten dole,
mijn zelfbeeld ten dode
opgeschreven en mijn bedoeling zogezegd verheven.

Spelen wij dan allen soms,
misschien intentioneel, toneel?
Werken wij dan, elk van ons,
met tegenzin te over, veel te veel?

We doen het elke dag, bedenk ik,
we doen het unaniem,
met hier en daar een enkeling
die alles toch al heeft gezien.

Ik bedaar dan, geef mijn fouten toe,
besef dat ik nog veel moet leren over nagenoeg alles wat ik doe.
- 'k Wil me ook liefst nu al excuseren misschien ben ik morgen moe of geagiteerd. Onthoud dan dat ik vast pas weer wat heb geleerd. -

Statistiek opdracht 2
372 · Feb 2014
Icecubes
Daan Feb 2014
Willing to be shaped roughly, taste
the cold sensation working it's way
down to your toes, tingling. My tongue
is stuck.
You're pretty.
371 · Dec 2014
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?
371 · Dec 2013
Stepping back
Daan Dec 2013
I see the way you act around them,
see, finally, what you really are.
I'm taking steps to show myself
I turn around and take steps to

get away from you and all your
pretty lies, all your enigmas and
mysteries, I don't want to be a part
of your world anymore, you must

be some kind of witch for taking and
crushing all those hearts, at least mine
is one you'll never take, or I will take it
back, just like steps but different, motorical

moment, I am taking back my words, now
I'll run past your beautiful riddles, step back!
371 · Jan 2015
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.
370 · May 2019
Libellebil
Daan May 2019
Het gebeurt dat ik van paling droom.
Ik keer woord na woord,
zie *** de kok zijn lepel plooit, vermoordt
uit woede en de redder, zonder schroom,
in zijn racecar van de radar
vertrekt. Tot ik wakker word en zie
dat mijn koorts op het meetsysteem
duidelijk een strook te ver trekt,
verder dan ik zou willen lezen.
Neem een pil, lip, neem een
libellebil, dan zal je genezen.
De geniezing van een fever dream. Ah en LEGOVOGEL!
370 · Dec 2014
The harp player part one
Daan Dec 2014
How you gently caress
each string
in your only dress
under his wing.

I've stopped working,
caring.
Failure is always lurking,
daring
what I never could.

My center, made of wood,
when burns
never returns.
You're left with ashes.

Your eyelashes,
your fingers,
all created lingers
and I never know for sure.

I guess that's how you lure
one man or another,
one of them being me,
as I see, you could be
the mother, bearing.

So I can revive caring
as an endless motion
in my wooden guts, my core.
You, bearing, three or four
as the door shuts
and you leave your instrument
behind.
370 · Jul 2014
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
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