Cursed
Every door slams and every window breaks
Each fight is damned with two or more mistakes
Every king falls and every convict tries
Each day he lives on wishing he could die
You thought you had it all
But you never really did
And you could have kept it all
Until everyone else did
Parades of flame and envy capture true
When the glass slipper becomes a shoe
Street lights burn out and so does the shade
Ideas to silence and peace into violence
You thought that you had it all
But you never really did
And you could have kept it all
Until everyone else did
Cursed, the obscure dreamer with his finger on the trigger
Cursed, the patient children waiting for their parents
Cursed, the future fade out a traitor for a savior
Cursed, the favor out weighed by failure
You thought you had it all
But you never really did
And you could have kept it all
Until everyone else did
Cursed
But you never really did
Cursed
But you never really did
Daniel Jaffke
September 18, 1983 - January 31, 2014
Close My Eyes
If I fell asleep
To the sound and the feeling
Of pins and needles
If I’m still able
Just close my eyes
If I fell so deep
Into the shadows you create
Just close my eyes
No time for hellos
Just say good bye
If I awake
And times have changed
I’d still lose what’s gone today
Get in while I still try
And If I’m able
In our space and our time
Just close my eyes
No time for hellos
Just say goodbye
Daniel Jaffke
9/18/1983 - 1/31/2014
This Hook Is For You
I can’t write a song that anyone would like
Cause im so self absorbed in this pitiful life
The meaning of the lyrics I always seem to write
Can’t keep people dancing through out the night
This hook is for you
This is not for me
This look is my proof
Open your eyes to see
No I’m not a super hero with words of flame
Or a leader of nations with a famous name
My point of view is skewed and full of shame
With a fortune of shattered mirrors I claim
This hook is for you
Forget about me
This is your proof
For you to finally see
That just maybe what I have
Is worth a thousand words
Deeper than blood and bone
Deeper than what has been shown
I can’t write something I will eventually forget
Sing a thousand words just to end in regret
This hook is for you
This is not for me
This look is my proof
Open your eyes to see
This hook is for you
Forget about me
This is your proof
For you to finally see
Me.
Equal Love
Is Hard To Come By, Embrace It
By Daniel Jaffke 3/2013
Today is a good day to talk about all the failures and successions in today’s relationships. While people fight for the subject of equal rights, while I try to lick my deep wounds, and into the spring we descend upon a new reason we try and feel alive. The graces of our beliefs and traditions strain on the limbs of love. Some want the absence of emotion and call it reality, others want the best of both worlds while a constant struggle to understand our better halves.
Miss-communication seems to always unveil its ugly head near the end of every relationship. Our relationship with our lovers, our fellowship within our nation, and the war within ourselves all have the same scars. Isn’t every relationship the same? If it works, is it because it was “meant to be” or because “we worked at it”? If beliefs brings us together, why are we so torn from the center? If we don’t love each other then we are living a lie. We would save each other from near death, not because of money or enjoyment, but because of love. So when a social union or legal contract between people that establishes rights and obligations between them, but not bound to the confides of another’s religion or belief, then what is the argument? Could I ever marry someone of another religion? Maybe, but I wouldn’t let their religion get in the way of how I feel about them.
In my case, time has always been a factor of how my relationships falter. I wouldn’t say that every relationship that has ended was a failure, because I have learned from them. I would want something at a certain time and the other person doesn’t feel the same. The moments that teach me who I am also shape me into a stronger individual, but there is a war within that still rages. I wish to control my environment, and I lack the self control to do it in a way that makes everyone happy, or maybe I haven’t found someone who feels the same about their environment. Regardless of environment, we all have wars we fight within ourselves. Just because I don’t know where to take my love, doesn’t make me any less wise to the subject of love.
I hope everyone understands the issue with history. History writes itself. I hope everyone is able to live without regret and feel what needs to be felt in order for love to shine its light into your heart today. Think of someone who eases your mind, and let them know they are in your thoughts, because that could stop the inner war if but only for a day.
Photo from Daniel's On This Day page for 8/22/2013
Facebook post from Daniel's On This Day page
Interview tomorrow for papa johns at 5pm. I'm done with machining. I'd rather spend my time in school.
Austin Burton and I were looking at a school called WGU. It looks promising. I was hoping to get some input from Facebook from a student of that school. Anyone?
Who Are You
It seems to be, well at least it does to me
That the only thing I feel is what I see
And I can move things with my mind
The one true highlight of my dream
Sometimes I incorporate real life crime
Friends I fight and laughs from the other night
But I don’t think I’ve ever met you
No I don’t think I’ve ever met you
Who are you
When and where is always something new
A house, a battlefield, and always misused
The bond is strong but I’m alarmed
The one true north follows the few
Sometimes I throw together reasons why
Things I thought about before sleeping last night
But I don’t think I’ve ever met you
No I don’t think I’ve ever met you
Who are you
Daniel Jaffke
May 2013
