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Daan Mar 2019
Hij had onroerend goed geprobeerd,
zelfs met elleboogtechnieken
vermoeidheid afgeweerd.
Toch heeft het niet mogen zijn
want ook al was het fijn
hij heeft niet kunnen pieken.
Met *****
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
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
Daan Feb 2014
I'm a lazy man, yet taken care of.
I'd be able to fulfill the needs love
if I worked for it. I don't, lacking,
good or bad, no opinion. Cracking

the dresscode with a single pinch.
People react differently, in clinch,
with themselves, closer to a flinch,
saved, suddenly from this public lynch.

I'm leaving town, not because I can
not handle their judging faces,
not because my past action chases
me every wake moment. These cases

of pressure come in groups, it loops
and never ends, like despondent troops
I know I'm making a fool of myself and people will think I'm desperate and hopeless,
maybe I am, maybe I'm not, but I don't care, at least I'm being true, done with dresscodes.
Daan Jun 2019
Leven is te lang een doel geweest.
Ik heb tegen dat gevoel geracet
en geleerd dat onderwege zijn
meer betekent dan de finishlijn.
- Liefde = kokosnoot
- komt zomaar uit de lucht vallen
Het is allemaal geen wedstrijd
Moet ik mezelf tijdig vertellen
Ik heb nochtans vaak gezegd
dat ik niet competitief ben

Tja, als je de weg maar terug vindt
Na het vliegen uit de bocht.
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.
Daan Jan 2017
Barely breathing, barely alive,
you strive to keep me going.
My hands reached out
and yours did too
while hers did not.

Different lobsters fighting in my head,
one is dead
the other didn't have to fight
she is now my favourite light.

She's pulling me
out of my misery
slowly
carrying me
to my safe place
a new and healthy trace
to follow in the sand
while the other banned
and left me understandably.
I'll wear this while yours is being washed
Because of symbolism.

I thought of descriptions
but I know they're of no use
Daan Jul 2021
Rimpels die naar onder wijzen,
kijkend op de kunstenklok,
haren die jongeren vergrijzen
en de patroonloos zwarte sok.

Wat kijk ik toch op naar mensen
die zelfs op vakantie wensen
dat iedereen *** status ziet.

Wat kijk ik toch hoog naar hen
terwijl ik ze slechts amper ken.
Zij weten wat het echte leven biedt.
Lekker belangrijk
Daan Aug 2021
Mag ik nog eens
komen kloppen,
komen vragen of ik binnen mag.
Ik heb de deurbel niet gevonden
dacht toch dat ik een opening zag.

Weet je nog, toen we elke dag wel konden?
Toen de vaten leidingen waren, die altijd waren aangesloten, toen de auto's te water gingen en veranderden in boten, toen we elk plezier in plaats van elk probleem nog uitvergrootten
en niemand

het nog druk had.
Maak je niet druk, schat, de kinderen komen wel thuis.
Dry
Daan Feb 2017
Dry
Coping in interacted paragraphs,
forgetting how she laughs,
shrinking two sizes,
time buys us
revelations,
reasons for lost relations,
pathetic reasoning drove men crazy,
sour, winning by being lazy,
there, not in other places.

Depleted, deleted, not needed,
promises, changes, well pleaded.
All dried up
Thank god for spring
We met too early
we're all ok
Daan Jun 2020
The mere presence of these
present-day technologies
occupies a part of our attentional load.
What used to be akimbo mode
has turned into a one-way road
of loss of focus. So thus, as we divide,
division itself will stride
with the solidarity
between the person and the familiarities.

We have become used to using or abusing
the multi-tasking power and lost the
sufficiency of smelling just one flower.
Time, though non-existent, is inevitable.
Daan Jun 2019
Groene paprika, pepers, courgette
en komkom kom kom kommer.

Zet u in de lommer, kijk naar wat dje het,
een tuin vol groene groenten
en een zacht warm geitenwollenbed.

Het valt wel mee toch, wat je ziet?
Kom, vanavond eten we friet.
Klein denken, niet te groot. Golfjes doen meer goed dan een heuse overvloed.
Daan May 2019
Te veel willen is gemakkelijk.
Probeer eens af te wachten,
in te houden,
met alle macht en
man en zie wat je bereiken
kan.
Curb your enthousiasm
Daan Aug 2014
I donated my pride to a greater cause,
I gave away some honour to forget the loss
I won though, but lost integrity, nobility,
Selfish and not, now I crave invisibility.
you can't tell me what to do
but please
do
Daan Oct 2019
Ik heb moeite met me zelf te uiten,
ween niet graag, geen traan, geen tuiten.
Af en toe moet op en open alles even buiten.

Ik heb pijn, gepieker, net als iedereen.
Waarom zouden anderen willen horen
over mijn probleem?

Omdat ze van je houden, niet weten
van je dwarsgezeten dagen, niet geklonken kreten
niet goed kunnen zien of omgeklonken leden
niet durven bekijken.

Als je zelf begint, kan je kiezen, ***, wanneer
het even diep zit in de verschuiving
van het Belgisch weer.
Daar praten mensen en luisteren.
Hier roepen mensen maar durven ze niet fluisteren
waarom ze soms verdrietig zijn.
Daan Dec 2013
A girl is breathing heavily, her red nose
indicates ones feelings like those you stumble
upon walking, strolling through the city,
scarf wearing, caught the flu, and leaf

staring, sky as moist as cloudy cushions
taking the blow, thinking about the smell of
newly bought to read, freshly printed and well
proudly he speaks of his belongings left, to part

the route we walked on repeat. The lass is
helpless, less selfassured than before, as if
she messed things up. she wore her dress for,
I guess, a guy who tore her being apart, the best

possible part of a girl, her being, vulnerable, stirred
by my attempt and try and suddenly forgot to cry.
Spatio brevi spem longam reseces
Daan Oct 2014
It's warm here, not just hot, burning,
I think, my stomache feels, turning.
How do I get out, where,
why, does no one else care?

My head is glowing, fingers dripping
sweat. My intestines are tripping
over all and themselves.
Deeper and deeper, as if this fire
delves a way inside my body,
spreading like disease, like virus,
like epidemic forces
combining us to fight.

These short moments brought back sight
to those who lost it, those scared at night.
But it will pass soon enough.
I over and under but I'm never really
right.
Daan Apr 2019
*** jij je aanpast,
jezelf witwast,
must haves aflast,
opschuift
en wegwuift
wat allemaal beter kan.
Jij bent de droom van elke man.

Ik moet alleen nog leren strijken
om het gebrek aan jou te ontwijken.
Daan Jun 2019
Steun van alle kanten,
ik had ernaar gevraagd,
Instagram wist van wanten,
ik werd van overal belaagd
met liefde.

Ongelooflijk *** deze dag
voorbijziefde, dat ik mag
zeggen dat ik hulp heb gekregen.
Ik dank jullie, zal mijn best doen
om de moeite onverlegen in leven te laten
en van katoen geven, visse vers
serveren met zo min mogelijk graten.
Daan Mar 2019
Waar ik naartoe ga met mijn leven?
Ik weet niet eens welke dag het is.
Wat ik wil worden? Weet ik het zeker?
Natuurlijk! Alleszins niet apotheker.
Daarvoor heb ik 4 jaar over 2 gedaan.

Ik ben al blij dat ik mijn zwembrevetjes heb gehaald.
De 25 en de 50 meter. Ze hangen boven de schouw.
Ik heb zelfs nog voor de kadertjes betaald.
Wie doet beter, vraag je? Ik vergelijk het niet met jou.
'De dochter van de inspecteur, die is ingenieur.'

Heb ik dan gefaald? Had ik het anders moeten doen?
Waarschijnlijk of misschien.
Toch vergeet ik niet die tijd van toen.
'Kom, 't is tijd dat je verhuist.'
Ik weet alleen niet juist
of ik dat alles, zelf, elke tien,
liever verschillend had gezien.
Het valt allemaal wel mee maar bemoei je met je eigen zaken.
Daan May 2019
Denk jij ook soms aan de dood?
Voel jij ook het schaamrood
op de wangen bij het bespreken
van die wrange, wringende,
in de ogen springende
gevoelens die je liever zag
ontweken.

Dan ben je niet alleen, je kan die beesten
beter laten zweven, als wolken,
naar ze kijken, alstublieft niet laten
kolken tot ze velden laten draaien
en je levenslust meegraaien.
Geef het alstublieft niet op!
-Je gezicht spreekt taboekdelen
-Mr taboerine man
-Met een volle taboekentas
-taboegeroep in de zaal
-politie en taboef
-taboefkicks
-taboeren buiten!
-taboel zoeken
TABOE!
Daan Jun 7
Help vieren wat te vieren valt.
Neem tijd, luister naar de pijn.
Let op met druk want die vergalt
wat mooi is aan het
samen zijn.
Eigenlijk is het best eenvoudig.
Daan Jun 2019
We gaan naar buiten om de
schaduw op te zoeken,
verstoppen ons voor onze dromen
omdat we bang zijn
dat we er niet komen.

Wees niet bang om te beginnen
want net dan is verliezen
steeds een beetje winnen.
Beginnen, gaan en niet meer terug.
Daan Jan 2017
Black and white do not exist
I can only try to catch the gist
of what hides inside
the parts I get to see
should be the only facts to me
The fact that I care too much about others
I can only offer help what bothers
me is my judgementality

Sleep tight
you deserve to
Daan Aug 2015
A walk with fire
to reheat and warm my heart.
A flight through wind
to blow away the sorrow from the start.
A swim in water
to help me breathe.
A walk on earth
to be guided safely

back to where I belong.
Daan Nov 2014
Predictions about caring,
what in the world is this
I hope it won't be wearing
off soon, almost like a kiss.

Effervescent, even after spilling
the insides. Shocking to feel it stay
when all else went away,
thrilling.

Fluids rub my chin,
bitten melons, lush,
dripping softly, passing a grin,
triggering blush.
I think I have a crush
gushing
through
rushing past,
I'm too slow and you're too fast.
I can't make it last,
or turn around.
Daan Dec 2016
She's still running, she's still going strong,
I'll always know what I did wrong
but I'll never get another shot.
That's just not the ending for my plot.

Are we different, are we playing,
are we seriously saying
we are meant to be
apart.

My breath visibly escaped my nose
my next question promptly arose.
Am I just like one of those,
Am I one without the need to close
the closest of agreements.

Another one has left,
the elusive deed of theft,
Inconsistently planned,
a workplace left unmanned.
Focus on a different locus
Daan Apr 2019
Ik heb zelf niemand verloren.
Waarom heeft hij te klagen,
zal je vragen. Wel, ik wil horen,
ik wil naar jouw verhalen luisteren.
Je mag roepend in mijn handen knijpen
of zachtjes in mijn oren fluisteren.
Als ik maar kan begrijpen
en laten dat ik wil helpen dragen.

Dat is niet echt hetzelfde, geef ik zeker toe.
't Is daarom dat ik aan dichten doe.

Zo tracht ik het onbreekbare te breken,
dagen die zo vastgelopen leken
opnieuw te bewandelen,
om onderwege dorst te laken
en opgekropte zaken
los te kunnen maken.

Ik wil helpen dragen,
in deze vorm, geschreven,
want meer dan dat
kan ik niet geven.
Moge sommige gedichtjes een steun bieden op moeilijkere momenten.
Daan Feb 2023
Samen wonen, samen klonen
om met het leven tijd te doden.
Zonde dat de doden niet vertellen
*** het is om dood te zijn.
Dan konden we misschien
komaf maken
met al die schone schijn.
Door je strot
Daan Dec 2013
Now I lost and don't have you any-
more, things are different, bad kind
of changes emerge in my pitiful mind.
He can't refrain himself from you, can he?

I know he'll try and if he does fail, bail
him out of the prison she locked him in.
Throw her grip and your feelings in a bin,
they're useless pieces tied together, forced

but not fitting. I am fearing for the worst
to happen. Cause she is not your holy grail
neither your reason to be pale, there are some
different things going on inside that little boy.

Soon nothing will be left, he will be his own decoy.
This feels so much better than the former emptiness of numb.
Chosing the lesser evil, the less bad kind of empty.
Daan Jun 2020
When I give you the finger,
you lend me a hand, right?
When my eyes start to linger,
you can't start a fight.

Only I can, because I am
an entitled ****, a nice guy
a white ly-
ing, shirtless dancing,
dominant beta male.

My fragile ego's fresh
but my mouth smells stale.
I am so deeply priviliged,
I can not not expect success.
And I still dare to beg for someone
to help me get out of this mess.
When alone, I see I'm out of luck
because I am an entitled ****.
**** me, right?
Daan Jul 2020
I may never sleep for 15 years,
I may never have the greatest ears.
It could be I never find the gold
I dig for, could be I never become old.

Fame, wealth, success and the fruits of inspiration
are merely bonuses to or maybe just preparation
for the lover's taste.
I live truly in knowing that our time together
can never be erased.
Walk home with me
every day
Daan Apr 2020
Ik kijk uit naar jou weer zien.
Dan kan ik je een knuffel geven,
een kus en weer genieten van het leven.
We zijn nog even blind, moeten nog even
in het rond
draaien, achter ramen zwaaien
en elkaar begroeten van op anderhalve meter.
Maar ooit, beloof ik je,
wordt alles wel terug beter, echt,
mijn lieve goede vriend.
Ooit wordt het weer beter, slechts
voor nu nog even blind.
Zolang in jou niet kan zien, ben ik nog even blind.
Ik kijk uit naar jou weer zien
en ontbijt om half tien
Daan Nov 2014
God is being generous,
life gave me all I wished for,
yet I miss one simple thing,
a teacher, to take me under his wing.

And you noticed how I'm happy,
how I'm laughing all the time.
But did it ever cross your mind
that I'm just being kind?

All given will be taken,
all earned is undecided.
All I know is that we're
all devided.
By the same to become one.
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
Daan Feb 2014
They sat together, carefully, slowly caressing
this moment, temporary infinite, experienced blessing.
The grass was long and on moisty soil, they sat
together, staring in the distance, at eachother
and at the water, bouncing of the moons reflection
of a light no stronger than their love.
A beam, a ray from way and far above, reflected twice, and
once more in eachothers eyes. A blink too much,
an imperfection, adored some more, signs of affection.

His hands sliding across the surface, followed
by her grasping touch, afraid to be alone,
extased by being with one another. Until
the shattering of every single bone, they will
remember, briefly, with such passion. Every
single ember burns again.

Leaning on his shoulder, enjoying his smell.
Just simply looking, regarding facts, you can tell
everyone acts or wishes to, achieve this state.
Silently, breathing in your shapers air, releasing all,
the offers just to dare and make this happen.

Saying something, even your name, would be
too much, quietly masquering the blush, softly
giving in and opening up to your most desired sin.

They think the same, their love is parallelled.
They are both ahead, both too slow, both have
said and both do know. They both need to be held.

I lost my sense along with your attention,
lost my goal and did I mention, that you'll
regret the signs you did not send, regret
the decision, turning down a chance to blend
your strings with mine, attached, but ofcourse,
you did decline. I could have done more, you
should have done more. My feet are still sore
from walking, running, pacing, strolling, wandering, straying, browsing, playing, sprinting, squinting, flinching, failing, giving
up.

Collarbones are closest to my pain, fingers recreating
what is never to regain. Slowly turning, drifting, insane.
Realising that it's over, telling myself it's not, lying.
Stuttering b-be-because I, I'm crying, reading poems
to cry some more. Writing to keep away the bore.

Not a step was taken, though time'd have to be moved
to awaken and restart, recurring simple matters because
they meant the most. Love is not brought on silver platters,
it is deserved, in both ways, not in one.

She's gone for now, but she'll return, come back
sweetly just before the storm gets loose.
Before another storm sweeps me from your grip
connecting hip to lip and tongue to song and sing
and dance for this new chance.

If it's your glance or that of someone else, whose
turn it is to learn from how he sells, tells how
insecure I am and 'll always be. Finally,
set me free.
I'm afraid to be alone
I'm afraid I'll be alone, stay alone, be cut off of these imperfect perfections.
Assure me.

'You are trying to **** me, woman'
Daan Sep 2016
The conditions have changed
the setup however has not.
Daan Jun 2019
Even practice takes practice
takes practice
Daan Apr 2015
The fuzzy bear was lying there,
forgotten.
A gifted toy, once bringing joy,
rotten.
Because its memory caused pain.
Times were shared, his eyes repaired
when one time his owner got too rough.
Somewhere a child is crying and his life seems tough.

A frizzy kid took off the lid,
found.
The lonesome stranger, once in danger,
sound.
Because what once caused him to be perilled
was expelled by anothers love
spilled.
You say that doll is meaningless,
but you know you could not handle losing it.
Daan Dec 2016
My thoughts are more or less devoured
by that time my tea went sour
not a single hour
passes without it crossing my unfortunate mind

Yeah I know I have been kind
and I know you don't really care.
But it's a heavy cross for me to bear.

I know I will be sane again
and that I can be your loving man.

I just wish you hadn't made that joke
cause that's the moment wherein I broke.
Daan Apr 2014
It's like taking a new route, walking
another path than before, not knowing
What might come or be or what is growing.
Don't be scared, let your eyes do the talking.

Everything I see is different, like when you
read a book you have never read before,
you've seen those words, you're quite sure,
but not here, not where you'd expect them to be.

I have seen it all now it's their turn to notice me.
Hoping I won't ruin it by something that I'll do.
I've never talked to them but I know I'll like them too.

I keep calling myself brave, every day, for trying
this but inside a little part of me is surely dying.
And if everything goes wrong, I'll definitely end up crying.
Daan Jun 2017
I fell from stairs, at once I reached the ground.
My expectations, full of bruises, left me mesmerized,
when I saw my skin intact,
I knew what my prediction lacked.

I made no sound, my mouth kept shut,
a lot was taken in, a lot also was not.
The pain, however insufferable it may have seemed,
had all at once again redeemed beyond what I had dreamed.

My life had changed by change I do still fear
yet no longer do I stare excessively
at the fear that still resides inside of me.
Outside or on your sleeve,
Daan Sep 2020
Je stuurt me hooguit eens per jaar.
We vinden dat allebei niet verkeerd.
Als ik maar een duimpje reageer
wanneer onze vriendschap is verjaard.
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.
Daan Jul 2016
In the midst of rings they danced.
At night, when grey with all its might takes over.
In fog and mist and smoke and clouds,
at places surrounded by mossy trees and crows in crowds,
the cornerless figure of nature grows.

I saw them.
They were as in trance.
I fled because I didn't know their dance.
Daan Jul 2022
Are we ageing differently
compared to those before us?
Are we more or less desperate,
crushed, lonely and exasperated?

Living at our parents' houses,
the young folks home,
the pre-retirement home,
the pre-home home.

Consumerism was probably a lot
more pleasurable without the ethical concerns. Wars were probably hitting less close to home and further from our wallets.

Money is expensive and twenty-six is old enough to have your very own depression. Am I doing everything right?

There's kids on apps with more success
while I'm working, from home, my pre-home home, alone for way way less

Is it me, our time, my age or this wine?
That got me feeling
twenty-six.
At least I used to have an alter ego, an easy character to play. Now I have to be me.

So green, the planet less,
so inbetween.

I've definitely played myself ;).
Daan Dec 2019
De beste feestdagen behagen
ons met warmte voor elkaar.
We mogen onze dikste truien dragen
en alle cadeautjes liggen klaar.

Als mooie liedjes duren ze niet lang.
Maar voor het eind van de plezieren
hoeven we niet bang te zijn.
We hebben immers het geluk
dat we samen mogen vieren.
Daan Apr 2019
Er zijn één miljoen mieren
per persoon. Zo veel
vloeiende dieren
bestaande, voor zo'n
helft, uit water.
Toch zit uitgerekend
het uilskuiken later
in het parlement ten troon.
Artikel 13 met natte vingers
Daan Sep 2022
Ik vond pukkelpop maar niets.
Het fijnste was mijn vrienden
en hier en daar artiesten
die net niet naast de micro niesten.

Ben ik zo ver ver-wei-derd?
Fijn, ze wel te zien, helaas niet even mooi
als de grammen foto's met van-alles in de plooi.

Zullen we volgend jaar gewoon zelf tesaam camperen?
Mijn kleine oortjes zouden dat vast beter verteren.
Daan May 2019
Are you sensitive? Are you a tad
nervous, maybe? I am glad
you are aware, pleased that
you do dare participate.

Tell me, are you crazy,
are you out of your mind?
Tell me, are you lazy,
well-hearted, are you kind?

Why are you struggling to keep up the pace?

Probably because you're juggling while trying
to tie your shoelace.
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