"waals" poems
Everything that once was so simple, now all seems so lost to me.
Lost to the world that fought me.
I feel my words blurring together with a broken jaw type of numbness.
It feels like my thoughts were beaten from my lips from the inside out.
I can still feel the burns of thoughts unsaid. I miss when times were tangible and things were nailed down.
But now my life feels like water.
Violent like the tides, dragging me out into a place where I don’t know how to swim.
It’s the words that I don’t know how to place that fill my lungs with every choking breath.
I’m in life too deep to get out now.
I’m imbedded, addicted.
Fastened to this current.
Like the van der waals force of my heart beating.
My lips tragically crave the taste of air and my heart painfully keeps the rhythm.
Step Step Step Step.
“Let’s go on,” my feet say in agreement with my heart.
The tears drag down and even they demand to be felt.
No parts of me want to go, but they all beat down on me demanding that I supply them with more energy to live.
I grow weak and hobble at my knees and wonder, “When will this addiction end?
When will I get some rest?” and just like that I’m gone.
Not fighting the current, just floating.
Not swimming, just floating.
Not quite drowning,
but still,
only floating.
Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 11:38 PM UTC
The only time
is now
No future yet
All past gone
A spot in
eternity
forever.
Eelco van der Waals
Sep 18, 2025
Sep 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM UTC
The word is
the root that
grows in the
ground where
the feet stand
that carry you,
forward through time,
with the sound
of your voice.
Eelco van der Waals
Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM UTC
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
Sep 19, 2025
Sep 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM UTC
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
Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM UTC
There's a flicker of spark
When I'm inch-space from you
As you play your eyes in a corner
And I peruse your smile.
It would take quite a while
But you won't mind the time
Or this sea of strange faces
Because we're creating ripples.
Starting from this busy table
To the last customer in line.
You blink twice as you speak
And your pretty face will dribble
In the edges of my thoughts
We can do this all day long.
You can sing all your songs
And I'll ****** the lyrics
But we'll all be just fine
Because we're playing one tune.
Inside my rusty old car
Filled with memories of gold.
I'll try to kiss you goodbye
But you'll push my face away
And just hug me anyway
Promised to see me tomorrow
Then you'd quickly turn around
And take a glance once more
Before finally taking a step
Or two away from my car door
Knowing that there's something
Pulling us back together .
Dec 28, 2016
Dec 28, 2016 at 11:43 AM UTC
Learning by doing,
doing things slow,
slow meaning half of
the speed that you know
Slow down your breath
and the beat of your heart
making things better
make a new start
Slower is better and
good for your brains,
as it helps to avoid
any stress on your veins
Learn to enjoy this
look and see more
right where you are
as you open the door
Take a new step standing
firm on the ground
breathe and enjoy all
the things to be found
Eelco van der Waals
5 August 2025
Aug 6, 2025
Aug 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM UTC
Horizons shift slowly
where we are, here on deck
with open water all around
carrying our boat
to unknown land
with every wave and
wind that blows
This journey has no end
but ports in a row
bringing cargoes and fixes
after rough and calm seas
All questions posed
by currents and winds
you answer holding
your hand on the helm
steering the bow of the boat
with the flow and then higher
to stay on your course
with time on your side
Eelco van der Waals
4 August 2025
Aug 4, 2025
Aug 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM UTC
The freshness of
the early daybreak
with open windows,
sunbeams in
A blackbird singing
through the curtains
a whole new
morning to begin
This courtyard is
a place of mercy,
an island in a
world of stone
You wake up in
a new beginning
contentness
rising from the bone
So get up, step
into the garden to
feel this newness
in your pores
You've come from far
into this moment
here to enjoy
this time is yours
Eelco van der Waals
17 August 2025
Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM UTC