Breakthrough

By Tanya Lynn Walker

Theres nothing quite as exhilarating as falling or being in love. It can truly be a magical experience. But, I know this euphoric energy called love that I write about in my new book entitled Breakthrough starts with me and how I feel about myself. Accepting who I am and feeling unconditional love and compassion for myself, helped me to experience the same level of unconditional love and compassion for others. With great effort and determination, love is the foundation for the most intimate, romantic relationships. Like all else, relationships have a beginning and an end. Some grow quickly, while others take longer to nurture.

Breakthrough is a compilation of my many unexpected challenges and triumphs of loves lovesickness, heartaches, and heartbreaks. Im no expert in love by any means. In Breakthrough you will come to know this first hand. However, I do believe that when you meet that person that makes your heart flutter, the one person that satisfies your sexual and romantic desires, then that, to me, is love. When you can show another person how you feel without speaking, I call that love.

In my lifetime, I have found amazing loves and I have lost some amazing loves. I have had the kind of love that reminded me how simple it is to feel, a love that changed me, a love that left me hanging, and a love I never got over. I can only live my life the way it was destined for me and I trust love to always be a part of my plan. Love is exciting, whether it be puppy love or a unique platonic love, a lasting love or just a fling. For some people love is based only on physical attraction and nothing more. Others prefer a love that comes with commitment, trust, respect, and compromise. For me, true love is simple and patient.

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heartpursue those.

~~~Michael Nolan

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then but the strings remain forever.

~~~~~June Masters Bacher

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493165421

Tanya Lynn Walker

Tanya Lynn Walker is an aspiring writer and poet. In “All That I Am With Thoughts and Dreams,” are poems she has written expressing her truths, loves, hopes, fears, and desires. Although Tanya has been writing for over twenty years, this is her first self-published book of poetry. She is currently working on an autobiographical novel entitled, “1001 Independence Street” coming later in 2010 and a children’s book entitled, “Big Sister, Little Sister and a Brother In Between.” During her spare time, Tanya enjoys traveling to different geographical locations discovering new people, their cultures and histories. Tanya has three children, Natasha, Marcus, and Candice. She is originally from Brenham, Texas but now resides in Dallas, Texas.

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Rev. date: 01/29/2014

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Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Falling And Being In Love

A Love Better Than A Dream

A Love That Never Ended

Afterthoughts

Always

An Appreciative Sister

Breakfast

Breathless

Brown Skin Like Butter

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

Cherry Blossoms

Escape

Falling

Fear Of Being Hurt

Fresh

Happy Hour

Heartbeat

I Can’t Resist

I Love You

If You Could… .

In This Life

Insanity

Just For A Moment

Love Is… .

Love Without Reason

Morning

My Black Brother

My Place

No Way Out Of This

Original

Perfect Lover

Private Moments

Reality

Secret

Shadow

Slow Dance Love

White Tea

Why?

You Have No Idea

Falling Out Of Love

(Fool)

A Conversation

Above All Your Mess

Another Season After Divorce

Brave Enough To Say Goodbye

Get Well Soon

Green Grass

Habits In My Mind

I’m Sorry

Karma

Last Word

Lies

My Butt Ain’t Gonna Get Any Smaller

Pieces

Regrets About Yesterday

Someday

Your Few Words Say So Much More

Healing From Heartbreak

A Love That Left You Hanging

A Softer Woman

Black And White

Compromise

Did You Forget?

It’s Expected

Look Inside My Window

Makeover

Makeup

Poison

Sleep Talker

Through

Unnecessary Necessities

Wine And Reason

A Love That Changed You

A Love You Never Got Over

A Love Worth Remembering

A Simple Bouquet Of Happiness

Again And Again

Anniversary

Elope

Island Whispers

Longing

Love Letters

Missing You

No Regrets

Old School

Remembering To Forget

Shattered Memories

Still

Winter Stained Pillow

Unrequited Love

Can We Talk?

It’s Hard To Wait For Someone That’s Already Gone

Misled

My Heart Says Yes, But My Mind Says No

Natural Disaster

Right Or Wrong

Second Time Around

Side Two

Smile

That Didn’t Feel Good

The Sounds Of Distance

Truth

Way Past Patient

Songs Of Freedom

Brown Sugar Bread

Church

Colors

Cornrows

Cotton Pickin’ Time

High Cotton

Little Black Child Of Mine

Sista’

Sitting At My Kitchen Table

INTRODUCTION

Love… an experience everyone should experience. In Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, love is defined as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person that may arise out of kinship or personal ties. It goes further to define love as an attraction based on sexual desire. However love is defined, for me, it is a stimulating and gratifying feeling that radiates my heart and soul.

As a Christian and a woman of faith, I know and truly believe that God is love. I have also come to know and believe in the love God has for me. His salvation and grace are the fundamental lessons in which all of my life decisions are made. Through the simplest of terms, God’s grace is His gift to me. Without it, I could not have been given strength to endure all of the experiences of love. The Bible speaks of divine love, brotherly love, family love, and romantic love. All of these I have, in more ways than one, experienced.

In Breakthrough my second book of poetry, it is the power of romance of which I have embraced. There is no question in the many years of romantic relationships I have experienced heartache and heartbreak. I guess that is the price I paid for love. I have been overwhelmed and overlooked. I have overreacted and I have overreached, and a lot more overs than I choose to remember.

But through it all I am grateful and overjoyed to have come to this point in my life where I can love without losing myself. I have survived the breakups, the makeups, the made-overs, and the winnings. I will never forget how love can hurt and what it has taught me. All in all, love is still the best natural stimulant that can heighten romantic passion in a human being. I have found loves and I have lost loves but as a hopeless romantic I still hunger for that intoxicating feeling.

Because it has a dramatic effect on the reader’s senses, poetry is the language of love. Plato once said that at the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. It is why I have challenged myself as a poet and author to write another book of love poems. This book is an attempt to allow the reader inside the reasons behind my rational and sometimes irrational emotions and why I have become a champion of the power of love. Whether love songs, love poems, love stories, the simplicity of love, and even hardcore love; I will always be in love with love.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

~~~Robert Frost

Poetry is the power of love. There simply is no other way to describe it. It is my creative way to make sense of the essence of love. It is my muse, my drama that characterizes the language of love. Arthur Rimbaud summarized the poet by writing: A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. . . .

A friend once told me that to be an artist you need a degree in art. But I say if anyone can pick up a paint brush or pencil and put down on paper what is going on in their imagination then they are an artist. If anyone has a deep passion and love for the written word, they are writers. I don’t need a degree in being human or being in love. You are what you say you are and believe you are. I am a poet.

A wise man speaks. A wiser man writes.

~~~Gino

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Apart from all of my efforts, the success of any project depends largely on the encouragement and guidelines of many others. First and foremost I would like to take time and thank God for His favor. In the process of putting this book together I realized how true this gift of writing is for me. He has given me the power to believe in my passion and pursue my dreams. I could never have done this without the faith I have in Him.

In addition I would like to thank my caring, loving, and supportive children, Natasha, Marcus, and Candice: my deepest gratitude. Your encouragements are much appreciated and duly noted. It was a great comfort and relief to know that you, Natasha, were willing to provide management of our household activities while I completed my work. My heartfelt thanks.

I would like to express my gratitude to the Xlibris Publishing Corporation and its staff that provided support, read, wrote, and offered comments, assisted in the editing, proofreading, and design. I cannot express enough thanks to Dana Scott, Operations Manager for her support and