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
