Close My Eyes

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

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

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

Daniel Jaffke

August 21, 2013 ·

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