News Story from the sentence hearing
News Story from the sentence hearing
Daniel Jaffke
murdered 1/31/2014
by Shawn Wilson
serving 65 years at Pendleton Indiana facility
Filtering by Tag: Murder
Vicious And Forgiving
Vicious And Forgiving
The Circle Of Living
Broken dreams and all the streets you could have lived on
Holding on can’t bring upon a new reason to hold on to
And just when you think you got it, its gone
We shed light and life goes on
Sex don’t sell and the last of the wine drips
On a carpet in a house not on top of the list
And just when you lose all you think you’ve got
The thought remains and life goes on
Lost love or the notion of all seems to drain
Hopeless and careless to never be the same
But when one door closes another one opens
And life goes on just the same
Daniel Jaffke
9/18/1983 - 1/31/2014
Shutdown
Shutdown
I don’t shut my door all the way
In turn I hope the morning will bring
A better fight and a turn of slights
Curse the dark with rays that ring
I don’t shut my mouth by the way
And I’d rather take that to my grave
So my words flow straight and slow
Into the ears of a dumb escape
I don’t shut down at night the same
While attempting to dream up a sky
Where the sun gives into night
Well within my defied twilight
Daniel Jaffke
9/18/1983 - 1/31/2014
The Trash Can
The Trash Can,
Charles Bukowski
this is great, I just wrote two
poems I didn’t like.
there is a trash can on this
computer.
I just moved the poems
over
and dropped them into
the trash can.
they’re gone forever, no
paper, no sound, no
fury, no placenta
and then
just a clean screen
awaits you.
it’s always better
to reject yourself before
the editors do.
especially on a rainy
night like this with
bad music on the radio.
and now—
I know what you’re
thinking:
maybe he should have
trashed this
misbegotten one
also.
ha, ha, ha,
ha.
Sick Child Vigil
Sick Child Vigil
On the three days following Daniel's death I sat vigil like I have done so
many times with sick children.
People couldn't understand why I would not sleep.
All I knew was that I could not sleep while my baby was in peril.
I know he was already gone but that didn't seem to matter to my mother's instincts.
Daniel Padrick Jaffke
September 18, 1983 - January 31, 2014