Daniel Jaffke

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Equal Love

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




Who Are You





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

Lost VO.2

Lost VO.2


I get lost
Somehow all the lines implied
Don’t seem to separate the lanes
And we got turned around along the way
Kicking up rocks like all the dreams lost
Thrown back off and tossed past the cliff
From which we drift inch by inch
So I guess I tuck and roll
Or I guess lose my soul
Face the truth and fix the stare
Take the step and fair is fair
No care in hand, I can’t meet these demands

I get lost
From my side of the dream
Is it what you need?
I get lost
And I won’t let go

Black and gold with cruise control
Headlights guide the vibe to its end
I still sit and stare and watch from there

Shoot the apple and blow my mind
A perfect design to prove you right
Heres the towel I’m throwing the fight

I get lost from this end of the dream
Is it what you need
I get lost and I won’t let go
I get lost from everything you say
Is it what you mean
I get lost
I get lost
I get lost and I won’t let go

Daniel Jaffke
9/18/1983 - 1/31/2014


Prison Escape

Prison Escape

I wish I didn’t care at all

I’d like to wake up slow
To feel hear or see nothing
But I will and I know

Wheels will turn

Increasing pace
Leaving me blinded
And cities to waste

I wish it didn’t matter

That the well went dry
That Im left dragging back
While you never tried

Wheels will turn

Stuck in place
Leaving me blinded
And lust to waste
Wheels still turn
After pleading my case
You took what you could
accept empty space

I can’t accept what never was

You were never, you would never
I wish I didn’t come off

As a cling in defeat
but the wheels turn

And the choice is made
I need a new move
For this prison escape

Daniel Jaffkle
9/18/1983 - 1/31/2014


We Are Alive

We Are Alive


We are who we are
Without a whistle
To be blown
We are so afraid
of the unknown
Where we grow
We are what we save
What we don’t show
A crippled crow

If we ever get out
Alive
We can make it out
Alive

We are who we are
Without reason
To unfold
We are so engaged
Into the weakness
From which we stray
We are who we need
To get through to us
To better days

If we ever get out
Alive
We can make it out
Alive
We are alive



Daniel Jaffke