The Heart of a Woman: Poetry, Short Stories & Tekaisms

By Tumika Patrice Cain

Sit back, relax and let the heartfelt words of The Heart of a Woman, touch you, heal you, encourage you, inspire you and celebrate your very real experience.

Through right and wrong, good and bad, highs and lows, happiness and sadness, times of plentiful and times of lack, pleasure and pain, love and loss...these are the seasons of our lives. Between the pages of The Heart of a Woman, the author takes readers on an emotional journey through life with a decidedly poignant, sincere and poetic meter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inkscriptions Publishing & Media Group
• Release date: Aug 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9780991507764

Book preview

Love Eternal

I am love eternal

a maze of contradictions

equaling everything right

I am the lullabies

putting babies to sleep

and drum beats

waking you up to party

each night

---

I hold sensitivity in

the palms of my hands

I teach butterflies

how to fly

---

I am love eternal

I am every thought on

every page

I am the dreams

you had last night

and courage needed

to start the day

I am every word

you ever wanted to say

---

I am love eternal

Presidents fall down

at my feet

sending my thoughts

before the Senate

a wink from me

grants my pardon

special permission to

come before the throne

which is me

---

I am love eternal

I am every lover

rolled into one

I am every unsung song

the very muse behind

all creativity

I am that woman

even your own mother couldn’t be

---

I make perfection look

damaged

and platinum yesterday’s

leftover trash

shoot, even my mistakes

are perfect

I am love eternal

that’s right

love eternal

---

You’ve been graced

by the power

of my might

I said love eternal

---

I’m what every father

wants his daughter to be

what every mother wants

her son to marry

---

I am the fantasy behind

little girls play

---

I make men happy

to be alive each

new day

---

I am love eternal

I am love eternal

I am love…

Beautiful You

You are

Poetry and soft music

To me

Making up the words

That soothes my soul

---

I cast tulip petals

Into the wind

In awe of your

Beauty

---

I have never not

Loved you

---

You put the

Synchronization

Into each beat

Of my heart

---

I create new

Arias to sing

In honor of all

That you are to me

---

A cacophony of

World events

Becomes the most

Beautiful symphonies

When I look in your eyes

---

You are

Exquisite

Leaving me wishing

That I could sculpt

Forever etching

Your magnificence

For all the world

To see

Behold

---

My heart bursts joyfully

Thinking of that moment

When HE created you

Knowing that in this

Moment

The world would

Witness your grace

That I might be able

To touch your face

I have been so

Strategically placed

To know you

---

I have never

Not known you

Have never not

Loved you

---

I smile

Thinking we were

Probably

Suite mates

On the other side

Before the Trinity

Decided it was time for us

To come here

---

I am rendered

Speechless

Words coming only

In the form of

Colors

---

My love burns

Blue for you

Delving into places

I never knew

Existed

Inside of me

Filled with

Serenity and peace

Nothing has ever

Felt more right

Than loving you

---

Hope springs

Daffodil blossoms

Tenderly unleashing

My innermost desires

---

Your arms wrap me

In lavender lullabies

Eyelet fringes

Of your love

Keeps me grounded

Focused

---

I cry crimson

Tears of hurt

Pain, disappointment

That you and I are

Not to be

I hoped you’d be

Isaac for me

I prayed you’d be

Isaac for me

---

Instead you were

A butterfly with

Marmalade wings

Leaving your sweetness

Upon my skin

As you fluttered away

---

You are so beautiful

I dreamt of holding

You in the night

Where only the

Moonlight’s glow

Cast kisses upon

My ebony brow

From your lips

---

Can’t believe

We’ve never

Done more than

Hand holding

Not when you

Live inside of me

As if you’ve

Been inside of me

Exchanging your

Love for my own

---

You’ve come

To me

For me

With arms and

Eyes open

Yet we miss

Each other

---

I,

Orbiting around your

Sun

You,

Orbiting around my

Moon

Entire worlds existing

Between us

---

This life will be over soon

Transcend earthly

Obstacles with me

Come, beautiful one,

Spend eternity with me.

Tekaism

Today I had an ice cream cone

And thought of you

As I ate it…

Friend of Mine

It is as though I have been separated from