Thoughts of a Butterfly: Unspoken Feelings

By Sherita J. Jackson

Thoughts of a butterfly is a collage of inspirational poems & thoughts. I wrote this book to give people like me a voice, those who may need to build their confidence, gain inner strength & be encouraged. This book will take you on a journey. It will help you get through the hard times when youre facing some of those similar events that life may bring our way. It will have you thinking about your past & future. It will give you motivation & it might even make you cry. But it will definitely help boost your self-esteem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524591250

Sherita J. Jackson

Sherita Jackson is a new published author who was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. Though this is her first book. She is no stranger to poetry writing. In 1996 she was one of the “Keys to the future” poetry contest winners for the Coca Cola foundation. Also some of her work is featured in the poetry book “Dark side of the moon”. Her poetry is heartfelt and meaningful. Because it comes from her past and present experiences. She is talented and creative and she gives her work a voice that you cannot ignore. Many people can relate to her work because it is personal.

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Copyright © 2017 by Sherita J. Jackson.

ISBN:      Softcover         978-1-5245-9124-3

                eBook             978-1-5245-9125-0

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Rev. date: 05/02/2017

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

Just my Thoughts…..

Mother

Sister/ Best Friend

My Child

Just My thoughts…

Butterfly

Twinkle of a star

Water fall

Moon

Explode

Rainbow

Just my Thoughts…

Forever Memories

Never Forget

Missing You

Did You Know

A Prayer for a Stranger

Just my Thoughts…

Chances

Truth

Have Faith

CHAPTER 2

Just My Thoughts…

I am Your Sister

Taking For Granted

I Am Sorry

Unanswered

Happy to Be

My World

Just my thoughts…

Love Yourself

Working on Me

Mothers Child

Strong

I Don’t Know

Just my Thought…

Your Rainbow

Don’t Waste Time

Wake up

Glass Feelings

CHAPTER 3

Just my Thoughts…

Abused from Love

Auction

Mask

Back Burner

Enough

Behind a Smile

Chameleon

Hide

Trapped

Petition

Never To Late

Just my Thoughts…

You can Begin

Realization

Believe

No Regrets

Hold On

Begin Again

Just my thoughts…

CHAPTER 4

Just my thoughts…

Eviction Notice

Have to Move On

Deeper Than Words

It’s over

Just my Thoughts…

What Lies Beneath

Adore

Magic

Questioning

Just my thoughts…

Deep

In Vain

Tangled Mind

What I Gave

Scared

Mixed Emotions

CHAPTER 5

Just my thoughts…..

Give Love a Chance

Forever love

Thoughts of You

It Wasn’t Enough

Before I Say I Love You

Amore

Just my Thoughts……

Our Love

Deception

Forbidden

Just My Thoughts…

Addicted

Unjustified

Fantasy

Perception of passion

Quiet Confession

Just my Thoughts….

Unexplained Kisses

Breathtaking

Mystery

Just my Thoughts……

Inner Climax

Effortless Feelings

Undeniable

Embrace

Just my Thoughts…

My Hero

Special Feelings

So in Love

High

Yearning

Special

You

Just my Thoughts…

Happiness

Cross Roads

My Final Thought…

Acknowledgments

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to everyone who is faced with life’s challenges and needs to find their inner strength & courage, for them to not only overcome those challenges but to also move forward and prevail.

INTRODUCTION

A transformation has to occur, for us to find that happiness we are all searching for. It doesn’t matter what we’ve been through before we got there. All that matters is when we do finally find our happiness. We don’t allow anyone or anything an opportunity to jeopardize us from losing it again.

Madam Butterfly

CHAPTER 1

Just my Thoughts…..

I never knew how to express my feelings. I owe that to how I grew up. As a child in our household. We were taught that a child was not supposed to have an opinion. We were never asked how we felt about certain situations. We were also taught to hold our tongue. Growing up like that as a child definitely spilled over into my adult hood. I took that approach a lot in my life. By not voicing my opinion, not saying what was wrong with me. While letting my voice go unheard on how I was feeling about certain situations. That gave me so many problems in my life and in my past relationships.

Continue…

Writing really helped me take a lot of that pain away. They say reading takes you places. Well writing takes you anywhere you want to be. There are no boundaries when it comes to your imagination. No one is going to tell you that you can’t do this or that is wrong. Your imagination is whatever you want it be. No matter where you are or whatever you are going through. Writing can help take you away from it all. It has done that for me.

MBFly

Mother

The sacrifices you make each day

There are no words to describe

Never asking to be paid back

Or worrying about your precious time

You give us a platform

Because you want to help us grow

Building our happiness

Is all we would ever know

You cry alone some nights

When