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Allowed
When I was just a young little girl
I dreamed in my mind of somehow
A future of growing up fancy & free
And the notions of which I’d allow
My kids would jump on the bed
Climb high in our cotton wood tree
Have white bread to roll up in balls
While I let them watch TV
I’d wear red polish on my nails
All the makeup that I wanted to
Tight fitting name brand jeans
With high heals… never taboo
But then I grew up… reality set in
Now concerned for my children’s safety
I made them lye down in their tidy beds sleep
A bed’s not a place for jumping
I might of let them climb high in the trees
But only small trees were around
In this desert with an abundance of sand
They mine as well play on the ground
My kids detest white bread
They push the health thing on me
Through most of their growing up years
We were too busy to watch TV
About my makeup and red polished nails
I prefer now a french manicure
Tight fitting jeans and visions of style
Sadly gone- they’ve become quite obscure
I can’t even fit into heals
Let alone stand or walk- for sure
Spindly heals wont hold me up
Now flats I have to prefer
I still have a problem with the word “allowed”
Seems my pathway to insane
I prefer my kids not use it
That of which I still can’t explain
Eloyce M Witzel
3/25/08
Beauty
God makes all things beautiful In his time
Yet “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
I want to be clothed in a beauty
That magnifies His splendor
Is this the beauty of which they speak
One said to be peculiar?
I never have liked that old fassioned word
For me- held no positive feature
So I looked it up under synonymous words
And liked the ones I saw there
Unusual- different from others around
Distinctly unique- of new flavor
This is the beauty of which I seek
By beholding- I’m becoming changed
A beauty I want to share with the world
Through God’s grace- reflecting His name
Eloyce
May 6
25 Years
Complimentary qualities
So easily seen in you
She an obvious violet red
He a greenish hew
Though if you mix these two
All radiance leaves the room
The colors more less gobbled up
A darkness here does loom
That’s why we cannot blend them
They better stand alone
To compliment each other
Though it cause the heart to groan
At times can’t get a word in edgewise
Into each others track
Yet when you see what God has done
No wisdom does He lack
You are each other’s greatest fan
Best advocates of you
Now time brings an empty nest
To focus… You’re not through
You make the greatest dream team
When you see each other’s strengths
And understand from whence they come
God’s glory to display
You know God brought you together
On that momentous day
You’ve seen Him do amazing things
And He’s not going away!
Eloyce M Witzel
2/24/08
Self
Helpless and haunted
In this place deep within
Why can’t I free myself
Of this miserable prison?
Who holds me captive
Inside this dark place?
Struggling in thought
None the wiser of grace
“It’s all your fault”
Such a powerful game
The enemy hides
As he places the blame
Help!
I want to get out
And just see some light
I’m tired of this nonsense
Eternal this night
Oh God please help me
I can’t do this alone
My chains are too heavy
With time they have grown
A still small voice
All you have to do is ask
He dare not scare me
To begin this great task
The Process
A light was switched on
Now at least I could see
The rust of the chains
Enveloping me
He rolled up His sleves
And surveyed an approach
This would be a long process
Shall we go for your throat?
Seeing the fear in my eyes
Small and wounded was I
His massive strength
Such a contrast to mine
I’ll surely not hurt you
I hold here no guile
I’ll be careful and gentile
You are my small child
With truth as our buckler
And freedom our goal
You need not fear
I’ve overcome the whole world
To Dance
In no time it seemed
I was able to breathe
His job yet enormous
He could never leave
Your ultimate goal
Is to dance here with me
He said with a wink
You’ll be footloose and free
You’re worth all my effort
With you I will stay
Your father adores you
I’ll not go away
Eloyce M Witzel
2/20/08
“You will now the truth
And the truth will set you free!”
Words I wanted to believe
But were snatched from under me
So young- and energetic
More out there still to reach
A picture of God’s freeing grace
Pearls desperately to seek
Said to be torrid lie?
The truth of who I am?
‘That’s not the way they meant it
Bible scholars quill in hand!”
“Those words are not for you
You’re interpreting truth wrong
Now get out of here while we discuss!’’
Thus followed with a gong!
“Very antidotal
Is all you have to say
We’re sorry we can’t accept that
We need some facts today”
I pushed all hope out of my mind
This group knew not my heart
It was so obvious to me
Of them I was not part
But now with time I understand
From whence those harsh words came
Religious men so bound within
They knew not their own name
It’s taken years to undue
The harm that those words brought
To me- a little sapling
Who I was- was all I sought
