Loyce's Safe Place
In My Heart
In my heart live many treasures.
They are all souls that I love.
I choose who enters and who leaves.
I have the power to group and place them in special their places.
I am able to recognize those that God has sent.
The ones he has sent to give me strength and hope.
The ones to help me through times of sadness and strife.
The ones to help me understand the why's and how's of my life.
Once God has placed a soul in my heart.
I know without any doubt that they belong there.
I will hold that soul in a place of love.
I will hold that soul like an honored prize.
For they are a gift to me from my God.
A gift that no one can ever take away.
No matter how they try.
I hold them.
I will never let go of these souls.
Other's may not approve.
They may try to deny me my souls.
They may storm and rant.
They try to make my love and concern an ugly thing.
They wallow in their lack of self esteem and mistrust.
Jealousy, hate, mistrust of those they don't know.
Those who would never hurt them.
Those who have no reason to take from them.
These souls are not from God.
These souls are from a dark place of misery.
A place where no one is treasured, loved or trusted.
It's a place of punishment.
Where they punish themselves and those they say they love.
It is not a place of love.
It is a battleground of unconscious desire to beat those down around them.
To drag them down to a place of confusion and heartache.
To place fear and guilt into a kind soul who has only love.
The sweet souls of those who only want to love.
They are always the targets of the those who dwell in the dark places.
The sweet souls who have so much to give.
The sweet souls who want to love and share their gifts with the world.
The sweet souls that God has created.
But I know..
I have learned that place is not for me.
I will fight those who try to take me
Or those who try to take the souls God has given me.
No longer will I sit and wait.
While I cry for those who are lost in that dark place.
For in reality.
Their souls are in their special place of love in my heart.
There where God has placed them.
They have to fight their way out of the dark place.
And fight to break away from the one who has taken them there.
Taken them to the dark place that is cold.
The dark place that is filled with self doubt.
The dark place that is filled with mistrust.
The dark place of fear and confusion.
The dark place that steals your sense of self.
The dark place that robs you of those who care.
So that once again they may feel their sweet soul.
So they may reclaim their God given rights.
Their right to love and be loved.
Their right to show love and express love.
To once again know that love is pure and right.
God is love.
God is good.
God is sharing
God is caring.
You are a gift from God.
Take back this honor.
Leave your dark place.
Your sweet soul is waiting.
Waiting in the heart of the one that God has trusted with it.
It's up to you.
Anyone can take you to their dark place.
A parent, sister, brother, grandparent,
It could be an aunt, uncle, cousin,
Even a friend, lover, wife, husband,
Even your child.
Fight them, leave them behind, save yourself.
I've been in that dark place.
But I will never go there again.
I will spend the rest of my life..
Holding, loving and guarding these souls God has given me.
Giving what God intended for me to give them.
I'll answer to no one but myself.
Loyce Hartley
9/01/2006
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