Daniel Magner

Daniel Magner Mar 2015

Untitled

In an hour and quarter
I'll be officially older than you

I don't want to
I don't want to

Ed....

Daniel Magner 2015

Daniel Magner Mar 2015

It hangs from my shoulders,
not torturous, but not forgiving,
my camping chair groans
under our combined weight
in the evening,
quite the opposite of merriment
it is never fleeting
a constant cloak
partially soaked with choked words,
a strikingly dissonant chord
accompanied by a melody
"It's high time to hit the road again
it's high time you leave."

Daniel Magner 2015

Daniel Magner Feb 2015

Progress

It's been four days
**** free
only had one respectable beer
for the flavor
already feeling upbeat
new melodies
pour from my finger tips
instead of alcohol
into a cup to forget existence
I must have been such a fool
for so long
good riddance

Daniel Magner 2015

Daniel Magner Feb 2015

Struggle

It's a terrible struggle
between
knowing what is just
and fighting for it
or
knowing what is just
and giving up

Sometimes I am so beaten by peoples' inability to love and understand I feel like forgetting the fight to seclude myself, to give up on trying to inform others and try to be happy knowing that, at least, I am kind.

Daniel Magner 2015

Daniel Magner Feb 2015

Fiending

One last thought from a withered mind
I have to stop this chemical grind,
the *****, the ****, the cigarettes
made me a fiend for substances,
I ran out of my last tobacco pack,
today I caught myself digging
through my trash
for a **** to light up
that's when I decided
enough is enough

Daniel Magner 2015

Daniel Magner Feb 2015

Yellow

Sometimes I just get high
and drift away
for a couple of hours
like the coward that I am.
Then I bake a cake in my birthday suit
got out for a smoke and I'm zooted
feelings totally muted,
it's gettin' late and
I can't find a way out of this
game that I'm losing,
so,
sometimes I just get high
and drift away
for a couple of hours
like the coward that I am.

it's so nice to fade
become a shade that passes through
flits from room to room
with nothing to do

Daniel Magner 2015

Daniel Magner Feb 2015

Untitled

Maybe if all soldiers
had to look their enemy in the eye
before they killed them
they wouldn't

or maybe not,
my head's just full of thoughts
where is peace?
what does this all mean?
what does this all
mean?

Daniel Magner 2015
Based off a story my grandpa Gerry told me about the war in Korea. He had a man in his sights but they locked eyes, in that moment he saw something and missed on purpose. The man was captured and tortured for 3 days before he died. He said he never forgot the man's eyes....