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Love's Grasp
by James A. Brandes

What source of LOVE doth come my way
That taunts my mind and heart each day
That never realizes it's eternal dream
But grabs you deep within it's scheme

That causes you to believe your LOVED, and it's real
As daily it robs your heart and mind, with emotion it steels
No matter how hard you try to dismiss it's grasp
Your departure of thought of it, never last

What evil of earth can taunt us so
And to whom can we share or really trust to go
Are we alone in the knowledge of this LOVE we feel
Or are they all correct, and we unreal

Alas, who cares what they might think or say
Who know not even a fraction of what we feel today
Who will never risk what can only be found
When such risk is taken, and doth abound

Should I live a million lifetimes more
I refuse to close real LOVES door
For my heart you see is ever open to Thee
This LOVE I dream will someday be

And while here I stand at the very brink of confusion and despair
I cannot refuse the knowledge that you my LOVE are really there
The problem is to clearly see
What future there is for you and me

Still, how beautiful is this dream
That if only for but one day, we have what seems
The LOVE of our lifetime because we dare
To express our LOVE and reveal we care

Oh, let these fleeting hours remain in me
A LOVE we share eternally
Why then is it such a love seems never last
And fades so soon into times forgotten past

Oh, just this once, let it be
A LOVE that dies not, eternally
And to such LOVE as this I'll risk my all
Thus once again answer true LOVES call

And while I say just this one time I shall let it be
That you my LOVE will enter me
I know it's a lie, my LOVER friend
For any who have known true LOVES quest, knows it never to end

You will judge me as you will, I know
But I will continue to stay alive and grow
And you who understand not the likes of me
Real LOVE no doubt will ever see

The stakes are truly high, the risk is great
But I will always follow real LOVES fate
Which true, may lead me to ultimate despair
But, can never remove the fact it once was there

And to LOVE you only once, if this must be
Will carry my soul eternally
And so I risk this one night stand
Laying down all my cards, that you might see my hand

Praying at last my life is free
Of LOVES powerful grasp of frailty
Where in weaker than a kitten I reveal with my pen
And LOVES great battle finds it's end

And we remain forever free to be
A LOVE that last eternally
By choice resigning ourselves that we
Are caught forever in:

LOVE'S GRASP
James A. Brandes
Copyright
2003
http://www.pilgrimpapa.com
Listed 10/6/2005
 
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