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Daan Mar 2013
He died today
years ago
I think I would
not have liked him

Just my own sense
of jealousy, wanting
some of his talent

People of his time
Are not just people
They shaped this world

just like they used to
shape fragile statues
of marble, letters of
simplicity, filled with so
much significance
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.
Daan Mar 2013
A smile, eyes
meeting eachother
not for the first time

Expressing a feeling
Nobody even comes
close to describing

when only one of
both pairs is really
serious about it

just words, said
to be funny
making her laugh

not the right kind
of laughing, not the
kind I'm craving for

Now that's really
funny
Daan Feb 2020
De waarde zit in het woord,
de titel, het zegt en hoort zo
of niet wat je zelf wilt.

Tegendraads, weer spannend,
m'n redelijkheid verbannend
naar een wereld van teniet.
Ben ik dan de enige die de waarheid ziet?

Ja.
Je zelfwaarde is niet aan anderen om finaliter te bepalen.
Wat je wel mag doen, is er inspiratie halen.
Wie dat niet doet, kan met ver stoting betalen.
Ik drink mijn koffie ook niet uit heilige gralen.
Daan May 2019
De pijn is diep en goed
verspreid, niet zomaar
aan te duiden, onduidelijk,
iets wat je moeilijk onderscheidt.

Zoek voor haar momenten om
nieuwe uren in te luiden.
Laat van tijd een luchtje scheppen,
paarse bloemen, bomen bruin
en uitgestrekte velden links,
rechts, een kinderspeeltuin.

Wanneer we de tijd weer nemen
om te kijken, zien we meer
dan wanneer
we haar aan het raam laten
zitten.
Geef de kans om haar tuintje om te spitten.
In en uit balans krijgt het groeien
terug een kans en zie die paarse bloemen, in goed licht,
die zich maar al te graag weer komen moeien
met het veld van je gezicht.
Maria vond de paasbloemen mooi. Of zijn het nou sint jeuris bloemen?
Soms graven, soms springt het in het oog.
Daan Mar 2014
My feelings are neglected, my love
was never appreciated. The care I took
did not fulfill her demands and secretly
my friends are laughing, I just know.

And there's nothing I can do to make you see
nothing to connect you with the real me.
I'll tell you what I want to say
not what you hope on hearing.

I danced with you but you forgot,
my time with you, unknowingly comforted
but my actions were betimes aborted
because you seemed a little occupied a lot.

But there was nothing I could do to make you see
nothing to connect you with the real me.
I'm telling you what I want to say
not what you're hoping on hearing.

Now accept my offer and release your yet
inner intellect, equally protect and let
me increase the amount of question marks
with complete obliviousness, it all embarks.

There was nothing I could have done to make you see
nothing to connect you with the real me.
I have told you what I wanted to say
not what you hoped on hearing.
I did not want to ruin the book by writing the note inside it
So I put a piece of paper in it to tell you
It always was and always will be you.

(2020 edit: god oh god, the cringe is real.)
Daan Feb 2019
I ramble to myself to people
I don’t know. A lot of I’s without their dots,
a lot of kids without their shots.

Do you have your passport?
Do you want to come with me,
Rob yourself of dignity.
There’s a room for all of you,
I know I will enjoy.

I starred in a show or two,
if anybody aks you who I am,
stand up tall, look them in the face and say,
I’m on hulu and on netflix too.
He’s the world’s greatest.
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Obviously he’s not the world’s greatest.
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.
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 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.
Daan Aug 2014
Dear,
You crave telling what you did
because you craved doing one thing
wrong. Keeping it locked and off the grid.
Your voice is silent, your face does sing,
it shows to those who know you
that you know who
is hurt.
I too
expose the meanings of a flirt.

I am surrounded by listeners,
but fearing the response,
surrounded by a massive crowd
minus the ones who are allowed
to hear whatever happened to you,
my dear.
Daan Jul 2019
Astrologie en religie, goddelijke vaten
der, die, das hand en tand, die bijstaan
wanneer den mens niet plaatsen kan, die maan
en das zon niet zien meer kan,
de bomen niet meer wiegen en
je ervan houdt dat ze je voor je ogen ogenschijnlijk bedriegen.

Wat jullie doen is graven,
maakt het beeld niet beter,
kan je dorst niet laven,
raakt je voor geen extra meter.

Het is een grijpbaar en begrijpelijk
mechanisme om jezelf te beschermen
tegen de bedenking dat er rijkelijk
niets is om naar uit te kermen:
'Waarom ben ik hier?!!!'
Het is er niet, dus mag je doen wat je wil.
Ook geloven, ook ademhaling oefenen,
ook mij tegenspreken, zelfs al spreekt dat zelf tegen
wat ik net gezegd heb.

Mijn waarheid zegt dat er geen waarheid hoeft te zijn.
Kost en baat geanalyseerd in nuchtere staat, zie je
wat je hoort te doen.
Maar dat moet niet.
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
Daan Dec 2019
Werd er altijd al zoveel geklaagd,
mensen de grond in geboord, belaagd?
Jezus zei al, zij die zonder zonden is,
werpe de eerste steen. Ik hoorde in de mis
en op school, kijk niet naar splinter in het oog
van een ander want niet enkel ezels balken.
Misschien leggen ze de lat zichzelf te hoog
en willen ze echt alle slakken met zoutigheid stalken.
Is heksenjacht nog wettelijk?
Is de schandpaal niet al ettelijke malen
zelf aan de palen vastgeketend?
Natuurlijk, niemand is alwetend.
Het is een simpel fenomeen, snobisme,
één-kenmerk-is-genoeg-om-alles-te-weten-isme.
Niemand heeft tijd om alles op te zoeken.
En tegenstrijdig goed en kwaad, binnen één persoon?
Dat bestaat niet, enkel in de koeken die je eet
achter je computer, zoals ik, terwijl ik zelf niet beter weet.
De mens is een vat vol tegenstrijdigheden
zoiets krijg je niet vermeden.

Wat is het toch gemakkelijk om iets te zien en meteen al jouw conclusies te trekken. Het is nog iets anders om een gegrond mening te hebben.
Op zich is dat geen probleem, het bespaart elke mens elke dag tijd. Mij ook.
Maar wanneer je online oproepen doet om mensen te lynchen
omdat je die beslissing ooit op 2 seconden hebt gemaakt, ben je verkeerd bezig.

Cancel cancelculture, #isoverpartyisoverparty #I'moverit #ikbenhetbeu


Bon, dat moest ik even kwijt.
Daan Aug 2021
Staat de micro uit?
Dan zal ik je eens vertellen,
in jouw zakje doen die duit
een gewezen oordeel vellen.

Ik vermoed dat enkele vrouwen,
waar ik nooit bij ben geweest,
alleen van foefjes houden
en niet poepen op een feest.

Er is er zelfs eentje bij,
die groter is dan ik,
voldoende reden voor mij
en dat ik er op mik.

Maar dat moet niemand we-
ten eerste ik was zat,
ten tweede ik meende dat maar half,
ik lulde zomaar wat.

En tenslotte, al zakkend van schaamte in de grond,
dacht ik g*dverdomme dat die kutmicro uit stond.
Daan Sep 2022
't Is warm of koud, droog of nat
en altijd druk druk druk.
Zij die nog een passie hebben,
mogen spreken van geluk.

Zit ze zondag in de zetel?
Heeft hij harde hordes hoog te huppelen?
Zeg alstublieft niet dat je iets voelt druppelen.
De stad, dat is een heksenketel.

In gras en stilte zoek ik tevergeefs de vlucht,
besluit ik deze week met een lange diepe zucht.
Voorbeeld
Daan Oct 2019
Schoenen als een dagje zonder
wolken, als een draaitje en geen
kolken aan de lucht.

Met een helder, hemels lachje, lag je
onder die lege lucht te dromen.
Laat maar komen, die
beelden van perfectie,
figuren met reflectie
in jouw zeegroene blik.

Je was jaloers en ik
verwacht je, smacht je
naar die klik.
Vlak voor de nacht haar waren stalt
en alles plots en klaps, ineens,
zoals jij hoort,
in elkaar past en ineen valt.
es in die air en herfst is in het land
Daan Jun 2019
Vol bord en geen idee
wat ik wil doen, bereiken.
Voorlopig zeg ik geen nee,
wil ik mijn geest verrijken.

Deeltjes weg, op de vork geprikt
en ingeslikt, ik heb een aantal dromen,
die nog wat te hoog gemikt
mijn enthousiaste zelf intomen.

Half weg, nog niet veel waar
gemaakt, dromen gestaakt,
ergens begonnen voor een paar
centen, zo mijn dorst gelaakt.

Het is bijna op, ik heb vanalles wat
gegeten, geproefd, de tijd aan mij
voorbij gezoefd en ik heb last
aan mijn schouders.

De overschotjes belandden in de vuilbak,
'k had nochtans een pak
kunnen bewaren
om morgen naar te staren
en te sippen
als het water aan de klippen.
dan
Daan Apr 2019
Hij bakte zoute broodjes,
blies en zoog van lage torens,
legde de eerste loodjes,
vatte paarden bij de horens
en stootte zich als koeien
aan dezelfde steen.
Hij hoorde zeemeerminnen loeien,
keek verder dan wat jij ziet
en liet, na zonneschijn, regen komen.
Toch geraakte hij er niet.
Alle wegen leidden naar dromen.
Komen ze toch nog van pas.
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.
Daan Feb 2014
A year has passed and you don't know.
I admit to the crime of too subtle action
almost forced to go,
never sure,
you enigmatic mystery,
I could never tell what I was meant to see.  

What you think of me is
still a question, I feel its automatic
journey is close to its end, I cannot pause,
cause it never does, not for me.

I guess we are the same but I never came to affirmation.
I end it right here, you had me for a year
and never shifted gear, next levels
never reached. Some doors breached

I'm off to bed. Could I never return please?
Tomorrow is always a disaster, so tell her today.
Today was two days ago.
I am too late.

Doubting about giving up, then she's not the one.
Giving up is for cowards, for guys like me, two days ago.
regret is a horrible state.
Please never make me experience it again, I preach.
I wish you made me feel careless and casual, then it would have worked.

But your sparkling eyes make me insecure,
your cheeky cheeks unkissed and pure,
your perfect shapes and dazzling hair,
your blinding stare, everything around me
vaguely disappears,

an empty feeling sears
through the image that I had
I was just a helpless lad, fallen down, reaching up to you.
But I did not dare to grab your hand for it was too
soft and smooth and perfect for my not so bright ideas.

Now drop me and never lend me that hand again
I will always try to grab it, immobilized by your smile.
addicted, not in love, hooked, not shared, affected and absorbed but not attracted.
attraction has 2 ways, of one I am not sure.
Abruptly looking the other way, my only cure
for how you agonize my being.


I am still thinking about not giving up, so maybe
she could still be
one
just not
the...

I cannot understand myself
why did I not say
what I wanted every single day
for us, it may, but hey, this way,
I did not have to lay
myself on the line,
a risk avoided same goes for love
nothing else to painfully think of
nothing ever broke me like
you did.

My approach was the worst in human history
from afar they'll come and hear his story
of failure and demise, for a month or two
he'll be the talk of school and then it ends.

Either end it or start it, but not this phase of inbetweeness
it's powerful and useless at the same time.

One whole year, you shaped me, reformed, refurbished,
you were my goal, unreached. I need more time, more coal
to keep this ancient bunch of chances from not living forth. To north
instead of south, your words in my mouth, my
songs sang by birds and rippling creeks,
banished and expelled from peaks,
vanished thoughts, so sure they were,
together with the derivative motions they withheld

I spelled your name a thousand times
drew it in my books next to some rhymes
made it pretty to fit your being, even
though I never succeeded to pass breakeven.
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
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!
Daan May 2019
Wij zijn één vanwege vier,
vieren samen zijn al strijdend,
met plezier, uitsluiting vermijdend.
Wij zijn een dorp van kleuren
die samen roeren en op meer dan
duizend toeren, samen huizend,
de hongerigen naar samenhorigheid
moedwillig voeren.
Verbonden, solidair en vreugdevol!
Daan Apr 2019
Als plant word ik afgeschilderd.
Mijn haar, nagels en baard worden verwilderd
op het doek gezet.

Ik moet pillen hoesten,
slijmen slikken, nee andersom
en 'k zal maar knikken
als ze vragen om mijn drankje in te dikken.

Stimulatie van mijn zintuigen
viel al meer dan eens in duigen.
Er is niet veel over te lezen
of ik zal verdorren of genezen,
of ik bloei. Ik kan maar moeilijk afscheid nemen
van vaste structuren en systemen.

Ik adem nog, dat doe ik zelf,
ik heb nog veel te geven.
Soms duurt het er twee of zeven,
soms elf of negen, minuten, dagen,
weken, maanden, jaren. Hoedanook wil ik stoppen met stil leven, ik heb lang genoeg
in bed gelegen.
Getekend voor het leven.
Daan Feb 24
Nu de dag is aangebroken,
mis ik het gezicht van de maan.
Ik zoek al lang naar rust,
kom alleen bij stilte aan.

*** vind je dat, niet meer zoekende
zijn?
Ik luister liefdevol naar herinneringen
van die deur die nu gesmeerd is.

Piepen, kraken, barsten tot we brokken maken.
Niets is permanent gelaafd.
Het brengt ons weinig
en toch ben ik verslaafd.
Alles onder voorbehoud
Daan Apr 2019
Ik zit op één stoel.
Zo zijn er talloze stoelen.
Het regent in huis.
Die zag ik niet aankomen
Daan May 2015
Written, you read them as extension
of your day and life. Filled with tension,
bursting with attraction. Actual emotions shared,
more real than any dream I ever dared.

Touched, you feel them, wishing for the same.
You put it down, look up and wonder what it is
to make you lonely, why it never came
to trouble you instead of this
state of loneliness.

I've watched enough on screen, in streets,
it must be the reason my heart beats.
It's love. You know it but not quite enough.
It's love. I want it but the wait is tough.
Daan Nov 2019
Soms is afvragen slechts begin.
Waarom moet ik per se dit,
waarom kan ik niet gewoon zo en in
het hokje passen, zwart en wit?

Zo simpel is dat allemaal niet,
je kijkt en kijkt en denkt dat niemand ziet
waar je mee bezig bent.
Dat niemand het herkent.

Je kan best wel zonder
maar daar moet je zelf onder
aan gaan hangen, werken aan fatsoen
en zo nu en dan een beetje minder flauw doen.
Je hebt het wel zelf in de hand.
Die excuses dat het zo is en je anders wil zijn maar niet weet ***.
Dat is belachelijk.
Je moet er zelf achter zitten!
Neem nu eens verantwoordelijkheid op
zeker op het gebied van wie je wil zijn, worden of uitstralen.
Daan Jan 2014
Different kinds of mazes hold me trapped
within their massive walls, I'm wrapped
up like your christmas present, but forgotten.
I don't know of which I'd best search exit now,
neither do I know how.

She doesn't seem to mind, it wouldn't work
She is the bottle I'm the cork
refusing the way to wine
Time to grab the keys, for doors or whatever

Can she tell what I am thinking,
can she feel that I am sinking
she can not, can she?

Hours would I wait in line
to see those glasses clinking
to hear them collide
I'm going for a ride.
In memory of his dearest friend and his closest chance to a great perhaps.
Daan Mar 2022
It was not an easy choice,
to say the least, I'll add.
But as it seems, boys,
my chair's the best friend I've ever had.

We've been through the lot
together. As if my final fate
was to sit and stay up late
and make cognitions hot.

I did all a man does with his time,
from eating, beating, drinking,
sleeping, farting and stinking
to coming up with this dumb rhyme.

That's why you've won the prize, hon.
You're the best, my lovely strandmon.
I even work with you
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
Daan Feb 2020
Een been geklemd, een been net vrij.
Waarom overkomt dit mij?
Ik moet vechten, ik moet sleuren,
niemand helpt, niemand weet
waarom dit mij moet gebeuren.

Ik ben er nu en geef niet op en
van die scherpe scheuten krijg ik een extra stoot.
Zo makkelijk krijg je mij niet klein of groot.
Je kan moppen maar ik ben niet te stoppen.

Mijn naam is leen en zou je denken mij te
vangen, kijk dan maar uit je doppen.
Strijder leen
Daan Feb 2020
Pseudoscience and political discussions
are like ***** and stereotypes of Schrödinger's Russians.
They may or may not be related
and they may or may not be true
as long as there's no proof,
there's nothing you can do.

I have grown distasted regarding
left and right and alt and fright.
Why does everyone need recognition
and a border on their gender definition?

We are people, we are human, men and women
or whatever name you want to have and give.
I was always taught to live
and let.

Things new and weird are fine by me,
just let people be. It doesn't matter what we say.
As long as it doesn't affect us in
a negatively connotated way.
And to break it to you, it doesn't.

The only value I like to preach is
to not enforce your values onto others
Is that a bad thing to do?
Daan Jun 2013
If spaghetti taught me anything,
it's that the sharpness of a spear is
directly proportional with it's
fragileness.

After learning,
you cook it
and
you eat it.
Daan Apr 2014
I vaguely remember being mysterious,
a stranger making interest rise and giggles
manifest, the pointing and the laughing and
the cravings for attention were only temporary

now I am this creepy stranger, hated for his
actions, or his not actions, because I am weird
and feel with intensity, because I think things
through when it isn't needed and don't when it is.

It is irreverseable, like youth, like an accident,
like rage and explosions of anger, bursts of tears
and opinions of peers, moving on, looking for
someone like me instead of someone like you

people like me, people don't, people think I'm funny
people don't, people have their judging ways of saying
you crossed a line and can't go back
too bad
failure
some predict and some follow
some decide and some are hollow
most of them, hollow
will there be enough of me left to carry on
Lets let future decide this one, cause mine always
end the same, regret and shame.
Only people who have experienced this will understand
left of me
Daan Jun 2013
Fish have swam away from me yesterday.
Dogs have chased me, running, even sad
ones. Butterflies, born a butterfly, never
were caterpillars. What's that dog's name again?

Cacti look so beautiful but sting so very bad,
That butterfly is gone now, the dogs too and
the fish never stayed long. Are they scared
by my movement? Or am I not good enough?

What's that **** dogs name?
I knew it
once...
I never saw that butterfly again.
You don't have to think it's good, it's a bit weird.
Daan May 2019
Het is nieuw of belangrijk,
speciaal of omvangrijk
dus je bent op van zenuwen,
gestresst. In kluwen van
gedachten, zitten alle antwoorden
al klaar. Doe gewoon je best
en je hebt het voor mekaar.
Het gaat om vertrouwen
in jezelf, je harde werk en
niet om al de rest.
FLUTGEDICHT MAN FOCK!
Daan Feb 2020
Easily defined, discussed
and generally seen as a must
have in a just halve your sleep
time, sheep-swine, expensive house
but cheap wine, mentality
community.

We chase and run and chase some more,
like the humans did food
years and years before.

When we are fed and healthy,
enough is never quite enough,
succes, just very stealthily,
seperates the weaklings from the tough.
At least that's the general consensus.

why do we need/want to be succesful?
Is that the only meaningful thing left?
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.
Daan Jul 2013
Every time I think about that guy,
when I see him, acting like he is
all that.

Every time I lose a game I was
never meant to win. Even more
when my opponent is that guy.

Everytime I mess up just once
more

This time
tomorrow,
I'll be drinking to that
I like how the words kinda form a beer glass
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.
Daan May 2015
Cover me like the veil of whiteness, warm.
Hold me, so vulnerable, yet free of harm.
I'll kiss you, may my mourning lips charm
straight to where your feelings swarm.

Come outside, with me and gaze upon
Come away with me and wander through
The land, the sky, the clouds, the grass.
Dazzling dreams of talking endlessly.

Close your eyes and trust my voice.
Let's conclude this affair with final sayings.
End the night of impulsive choice.
And decline the ways of sudden swayings.
We shouldn't do this.
Can't we just leave forever, together.
No.
Daan Nov 2014
The laughter kills,
ignorance spills
potential.

You

are my focus,
reason to go on
when my eyelids weigh a ton,
my brows drop and wrinkle.

I love how you sprinkle
good moments on the icing,
and tell me it's a secret.
I'd rather lose as classy gentleman
than win by crushing others.

In the end, the bigger man knows who won.
Daan Jan 2017
Clean as chalk parts on the ground
wiped away without a sound
except the crunching friction,
both our minds indulged in fiction.
engulfed by cities far away
farewell we say.

Clear as the board we used to write on,
used a light on to finally agree
the books I've written
were only chapters, smitten,
sitting on hold.

Whenever you're cold
whenever you feel misunderstood
you'll feel good we parted
and a little less broken hearted
every time you're in that mood.

You were right, my mind is free
I'm so very glad we finally agree.
Burdens made place for lessons
lessons paved the way to something greater
balance
Daan Dec 2016
This morning
was a fest of sun and rays
and beams and plays.

This mourning
is not some thing that pays
my pain slays
me whole
a hole
where my perseverance used to be.

I never wanted to accept acceptance
but in where I stand right now
I feel darker than a crow.

It was my own doing
to think I thought it would be freeing
seeing you leave.

My heart is frozen but I don't need drama.
It's my sole issue
that I miss you.

In frogs, in pizza, in windows and wine
I can only keep proclaiming I am fine.
Daan Jan 2013
There's this girl, nothing like a toucan, she's better.
With a blue bowtie in her long brown hair she
still mesmerises me every day and I let her.
But there is another guy with whom she'd rather be.

And every day she smiles at me with her twinkling
eyes and gentle stare making me experience the slightest tinkling
And whenever she says hi or just anything at all
I float, I climb my big white cloud hoping not to fall.

It starts to storm, another cloud turns up out of the blue
and another, but these aren't white, they're grey and
larger than mine, larger than I ever dreamt of one to be.

I must seek a lower cloud to chase because
the higher your hopes and cloud rise, the stronger
the pain that flows through you when you collapse
Glad that's over..
Daan Nov 2019
Zou ik na twijfelen, tobben,
uitgebreid weten, graven,
tussen hersenplooien, lobben,
op de proppen kunnen komen,
aandraven met een origineel idee,
mijn eigen dromen en een showtje op tv?

Ik weet het niet, wat ik dan kan.
Ik zou alles eens uit moeten proberen
en daarbij mezelf achterhalen, jureren
wat er bakt in die fameuze hersenpan.

Ik zou kunnen ontsnappen aan
een boeiende verdrinkingsdood,
zingen, praten met een haan
of dansen in mijn puurste bloot.

Ik zou kunnen balanceren,
domineren, fantaseren, inspireren,
marineren en uitgekookt souffleren.
Maar wat moet ik uitkwelen wanneer
ik daarover oor moet delen?

Misschien is dat wel een talent,
een goede blik op anderen,
ze helpen te veranderen,
kortom, hetgeen dat je nu kent.
Jagen naar meer
Of blijven bij wat je leest.
Althans geen schoenen maken.
Da's niks voor mijnen geest
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
Daan May 2019
Ik ben te jong om te begrijpen,
hij om aldra te verslijten.
Ze kunnen er geen automatismen
meer in slijpen, zeggen ze.

Hij is niet meer aanwezig,
zelfs zijn hersenen zijn pezig,
uitgemergeld, vel over been.
Hij is te jong om heen
te gaan, te moe
om het nog lang te rekken.
Voor mij is hij te jong om voor altijd
te vertrekken.
Lieve papa,
ik zie je graag.
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