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Lawrence Schrank Poem
“The Empath”
Fighting the darkness such a futile desire
It was I that once asked that my heart might inspire
Wanting destiny altered..refusing to see
Deluding oneself leads to vast misery
I asked understanding the deep mysteries of time
I have touched divine purpose and all things sublime
So why still do I ask for more answers within?
I must take up my cross that true life might begin
One day darkness, he answered…you’re forever alone,
You are the empath..you can never go home.
Why do you wonder if you’re cursed and or blessed?
You know all things beautiful but never can rest
To see love so clearly feel her beauty unfold
You must wander as home sick and give what you know
Your heart is the treasure you’ve paid with you life
The currency abandonment, betrayal and strife
Not for self have you paid, for true love cannot take
To know what you asked ones heart bleeds, it must break
Though forever concealed, it had to be true
Still you have made all the choices it was all up to you.
Lawrence Schrank
APOM
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“Act of God”
Past all understanding somewhere deep within,
A desperate need to realize something must begin,
Can't touch it with your finger, you must sense it with your heart
Life’s lessons take a lifetime few chosen vessels start.
To comprehend forgiveness, to feel mercy fall like rain,
Could never live within us had we not suffered pain.
Took a lifetime to discover, so long to understand
LOVE is the only act of GOD that we can do as man.
So love without abandon, just give and never ask
Be free from fear forevermore, discard the stifling mask
That keeps you from your destiny, that robs you of your peace,
God made you such a lovely soul, when will that self doubt cease?
Fear tells you you must keep it, Gods shows you… give it all
Your choice to live with open hearts one ransomed from the fall
Truth calls for you to hold her and embrace her child named Joy,
Hear these words, oh dear one please, my broken heart implores
To look into the cosmic mirror, find Christ in one's own soul
To hear these distant longings, see life’s mysteries unfold
Behold the love unseen; hear the whispers of one's heart
To gain true treasure sought of kings...now's the only time to start.
APOM
Lawrence Schrank and Caron Balman
( the 30 year poem)
Copyright © Lawrence Schrank | Year Posted 2010
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“Fond Regrets”
When I think of all I had and lost I wonder how it’s true
Did I have a thankful heart back then grateful for what I knew?
I was loved so deeply then, I could not ask for more
She loved me like I did for her my heart and spirit soared
I look behind and realize how happy I was then
On only distant memories now I sadly must depend
Everything is taken now my love and children gone
Awaken to this lonely world its hard to carry on.
In just one year beyond worst fears nothing still remains
Nothing save deep misery my abandonment and pain.
Don’t you see the purpose don’t you know just why
I came to bring you hope again, hear my love just try
Our love the gift of ages, your heart told you its true
You cannot deny what’s in your soul no matter what you do
Where is her love I so need now I’m crushed beneath this strife
Where is my empath hurry now your turn to save my life…..
APOM,
Lawrence Schrank
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Farewell my Angel
She fell so far then out of sight, she lost all hope embraced her night,
she could have been all that I saw, held firm her faith and gained it all.
My hopeful heart was shattered then, alas but this the sin of men,
To embrace true love and then deny, this tragic sin makes angles cry
So much deceived within their hearts, as God reveals, His love imparts.
How can she think, of course she knows… truth resonates each faithful soul.
Can any doubt this love so pure, its heaven sent oh be assured!
I pray someday she see her sin and allow this love to live again.
And even if I’ve breathed my last my love for her eternal… fast.
Lord help her find that special one who will love her just as I have done
Oh bring her back to touch this place where angels sing her dreams are safe,
this blessed gift gives sight in part and strength to heal her wounded heart.
APOM
Lawrence Schrank
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Aspasia
To know beyond knowing this beauty is real
despite all the missteps and the hurt that we feel
We must come with our brokenness, we need so to see
I will find what I know, will you find it in me?
I am love for you darling, I am here...understand
I am here also bleeding with my heart in my hands
Please take me beloved to my home within you
Forever together all our dreams will come true
Its your faith in your vision that allows me to be
All you hoped for and wished for everything that you need
For you've watered the seeds of my heart with your tears
something new is becoming, I have cast off all fears
Yes my love is eternal, let our love not postpone
till forever sweet warrior nevermore be alone.
Apom
Lawrence
Copyright © Lawrence Schrank | Year Posted 2011
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I’ve journeyed to the highest peaks to glimpse beauty vast below
To gaze upon the Arch of earth, still higher one must go
I looked suspended from this world, the vistas I could see,
Behind me were the sun and stars, below humanity
So far away, I clearly saw, at last to understand,
the most wondrous sight is love within that tiny speck called man.
I wanted most to know all truth, I've seen glorious realms on high
But now alone among the stars, in this place my dreams must die.
I’ve found all that I sought back then when I was in my teens
My journeys taken me too far to evermore be seen.
Yes truth I hold such beauty pure, was love I desired so much
But to know this wisdom deep within I’ve come too far to touch.
I’ve known such noble; selfless souls, gained treasures none can buy
Suffered such pain and misery, I’ve felt an angel cry.
I went too far, forgot myself, I did not count the cost
I see also from these staggering heights my hope for love is lost.
Weep not for me, I’ve few regrets…I chose my life’s endeavor
And though my time is past you see…through my children I’m forever.
Lawrence Schrank
APOM
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“The fool”
I am the fool, who holds so fast, to dream a love forever lasts
And if a fool then I just need just one my soul mate seeking me.
She’s too a fool to think I’m here, to seek despite the odds, her fear, that I a fool can never
be, in this vast world of miseries.
She will not let me wander lost, she’s well beyond those counting cost, we’re born to heal
each other’s pain, despite the journey beyond the strain.
But though my faith my strength might fail love leads us on, we will prevail,
to answer God’s most cherished call to know this love is worth it all
For God put you within my heart to seek your face to stand apart and know this love can
only be if both convinced its destiny…
APOM
Lawrence Schrank
Copyright © Lawrence Schrank | Year Posted 2009
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“Looking for her”
Wearied by this journey long, so many times so hopeful wrong
When will I find that soul so pure, she’ll become for me a wanderers cure
I feel you out there seeking me; do not loose hope I’m here you’ll see
Hold fast my love despite your fears I’ll find you soon worth all our tears
They say a love like ours a myth… I ask nothing less I can’t resist
Embrace this hope, your love for me; I’ll seek you through eternity
The thought of finding you it seems beyond my hopes well past my dreams
I need you angel, need you so much to sooth my anguished heart to touch
At last together the dreams we’ll chase two lovers wrapped in warm embrace
At long last as our eyes first meet, well know.. begins our journey sweet
Ill look for you within my sleep, and whisper promises that you might keep
May angels guide to me to home you’ll never have to be alone
To hold you close all through the night we wake entwined to morning light.
Though winter comes and kingdoms fail our love endures it will prevail.
When I find… my journey cease, this weary poet will have found his peace.
APOM
Lawrence Schrank
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Purpose
The purpose of this life is the opportunity to become. What we become is the product of our moment by moment choices. What we bring with both us and also leave behind in this world is the product of our hearts, that unique frequency. Broken, crushed, tested often with pain, elevated with joy, and the ecstasy of love… somehow formed into something we call "ourselves". Truth and the transcendental knowing of the essence of beauty, to touch the ultimate frequency of pure love, cannot be easily held by any human being, and this journey is somehow beyond the state of perfection. There is a beautiful reference to this unique state of mankind, somewhere in the bible, it says the Angles are amazed and marvel at of the songs of man .. The song of redemption.
Apom/LKS
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“Un conditional”
To know this love of ages sung I make my true admission
To seek and find such beauty rare a love without condition.
Born within the souls of men a longing to acquire
A love so pure and selfless deep fulfilled beyond desire
No thought of self I’m wholly yours I need you to believe
Therein the mystery, love perplexed how strangely I receive
This wondrous place of joy and grace that takers cannot know
Enter only you my lover true surrendered hearts will show
How can one know this wonder, how ever can one feel?
One must become the giver to makes ones heart this real.
APOM
Lawrence Schrank
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