It starts with
a sound in
your head

an ie or
an aa
a pf or
whatever

in your boat
into morning.

So here
you are now,
your sounds

pull on words
like the clothes
that still hang
on your chair.

Once you
shape them
around you
they move
into meaning

of fresh hopes
and wishes
for a new day
ahead.

Eelco van der Waals
September 2025

The only time
is now

No future yet

All past gone

A spot in
eternity

forever.

Eelco van der Waals

Deeper and deeper
with every breath
at the break of day

Eyes between
open and closed

Circle of light
and freshness

Inward expanding
outward contracting

Infinity in the
palm of your hand

Clarity your companion
for the rest of the day

Eelco van der Waals
15 September 2025

I never asked for
a picture of you.

All I have is the one
my eyes captured
at the first glance of you
and fixed it forever
in my heart.

That is what I carry
in my heart
all the time
anywhere I go—
and that is enough.

For B

Keep your focus on what matters
The horizon plain in sight

Breathing in and breathing out
in the silence of the night

Let your heart decide its rythm
No use to control its pace

You are precisely where you should be
All your layers in one place

Feel the lifeline that connects you
from the organs in your chest

To the infinity around you
Everything is at your best

Eelco van der Waals
14 September 2025

Our journey goes in circles
steady upward and around
through a little mountain village
and higher still towards the sound

of cow bells ringing in the meadows
along the footpath where we go
passing little streams of water
reflecting sunlight in their flow

When we reach a higher terrace
we stand and overlook the view
so much wider in perspective
than we, lower, barely knew

It takes altitude and distance
to see the picture as a whole
giving purpose to our journey
in the calmness of the soul

Eelco van der Waals
25 August 2025

Unexpected happenings
cast their shadows far ahead
as you notice afterwards
looking over your shoulder

Miles further on the way
you watch the landscape passing
and only then you notice
what you overlooked before

Small signs become signals
warning you in retrospect
of wrong turns you were taking
not noticing what lay ahead

A blush on the cheecks
a dizzy pressure in the head
should have told you to
pause the journey for a bit

as you have learned in hindsight
in gratitude of what went well


Eelco van der Waals
20 August 2025