I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. ~Maya Angelou

I’ve been thinking a lot as of late

About the meaning of home

The more I traipse and wander

The longer I trudge and roam

 

I never thought ’twas where I hung my heart

Nor where my story began

Cuz my heart’s split in many pieces

Where I’ve hung it all over this land

 

I know someday I’ll find it

Though elusive- it’s door seems hidden

And in the hallways of my mind

I can visualize and see it

 

Just a place to lay my head

A comfy place to be

Where warmth has nothing to do with temp

And I’m loved for just being me

 

Where one needs not fight to survive

Nor tell her side of the story

Where grace is more than a word

And blame does’nt steel it’s glory

 

Where a heart is understood

Cuz people take time to listen

And see the good in others

Without feeling mortally threatened

 

Where the sign says “Paradise Found”

And I dream of taking flight

It’s there I’ll be hangin’ my hammock

Under the tree of life!

 

Eloyce  Oct 1, 2009

 

My Mac Book Pro

 

Handicaps have set me a reeling

Seems my learning style is all mucked

If I cannot live up to the plan here

I mine as well give up!

 

“Put simply so you’ll understand it

Your brain has a processing problem

An abstract way of reasoning

Don’t worry we’ll get to the bottom”

 

They’ve called it slight dyslexia

An inability to read very well

I tried hard to focus upon each line

Yet the letters would not sit still

 

And with that came another

More- a dyslexia of thought

My ideas now all flying around

To one place how could they be brought?

 

So I gathered my thoughts onto paper

Who cares if my spellings a crock!

Yet here lied a much deeper problem

My notes seemed to always get lost!

 

But then I found a solution

 In a surreal monitor screen

Yet let’s not to forget the brains inside

 A duo processor so sleek & quite keen!!

 

Its accessible memory was better than mine

For a hard drive it did contain

No longer having to try so hard

I now knew I was not insane!

 

Not only did it help me to focus

It spelled my wrong words right

The words not seeming to jump around

My thoughts being always in sight!

 

 It also held in it great resource

Any questions? (With me there were lots)

I’d just google in some very choice words

And knowledge to me here was brought!

 

Oh how I miss my Mac Book Pro

My brain it was able to tap

We had become such an exultant team

Where e’r I went— it sat on my lap!

 

Eloyce M Witzel

2/27/08

 

 

“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.” ~Pablo Casals

I know how she felt- just one face in the crowd

How could she catch His eye?

Important people all clamoring about

Little strength left- to try

 

The leaders now pushing their way to the front

To encounter this Man so divine

No matter how long she surveys an approach

She can’t find the end of the line

 

No way to catch His attention just now

She sneaks in- cowering close to the floor

Undetected- to touch the hem of His robe

Knowing she needs nothing more

 

Now she’s crawling through the loud throng

All standing on tip toes to see-

Then He asks the question- demands a hush

Tell me ——— “Who touched me?”

 

The reason I feel her pain?

At the the back of the crowd we both stand

With a hope to bow at His feet

And see Earth’s scars in His hands

 

To touch that hem of His pure white robe

With tears streaming down- there’s no doubt

No one goes undetected by God

To touch-  is what He’s all about

 

Eloyce Witzel 3/13/09

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.” Maya Angelou

If a picture’s worth 1000 words

Than the oposite must also be true

Cause some of our brains work differently

So don’t let my words bother you

 

If life is a pressure cooker

Then my billowing thoughts must be steam

Soaring throughout the the stillness of air

Much like an espresso machine

 

A word can be worth 1000 pics

In my mind’s eye- that’s certainly true

Just one word and images build

Day dreamin’s what I tend to do

 

Last week the word “where-with-all” came bursting forth

When I had none… so I thought

Yet I hadn’t heard those words said- since I was a kid

My mom use to use them a lot

 

I’ve heard it said wisdom is what you get

When you don’t get what you want…

But I never really knew what I wanted in life

Till I already liked what I got!

 

Maybe what I’m getting is “where-with-all”

A confidence and resolve to finish

A work God started a long time ago

I know now…  that He will accomplish!

 

Eloyce

January 16, 2009

Empathy caring love and compassion

The stuff that Jesus made plain

Proposing the cure for finger pointing

Or withholding for personal gain 

 

And if money’s where the heart is

Ones sure to fall down hard

Cuz soon we’ll all be penniless

And just holding on to God

 

The great equalizer strikes at the end

Though sometimes he comes even sooner

And when ones left with nothing to hold 

Life never has seemed harder

 

But it’s then that we can know

That the best things in life are free

And the present that makes this life a gift?

Involves a world much bigger than “me”

 

A tenderness shown through understanding

Sent down from heaven above

It’s then that we can truly know

It’s here that there is love

 

Eloyce Witzel

July  15, 2009

GO

 

Please- I ask of you don’t judge

If an understanding of me is lacking

For my ears and your ears are different

I hear what of me- God is asking

 

The first time I thought I heard

“All you have to do is ask”

Despondent I asked for help

Get through a disparaging task

 

The next time He said “I need you to Go”

Family & friends thought we were crazy

We headed off to parts unknown

The trail ahead He was blazing

 

One time I heard “Just wait stand still”

Through hard circumstances I’d understand

My role in God’s great big picture

He definitely had here a plan…

 

Right now He has asked me to listen

Though His voice I don’t always hear

Especially when hurrying and scurrying

Like on Friday when that deadline is near

 

I  just love to follow that voice

I recon again He’ll say go

So I’m packing my bags up early

Where we’ll end up- I never know!

 

Eloyce M Witzel

2/27/08