To The
Women I
Once Loved
Pierre Alex Jeanty
Copyright 2015 Pierre Alex Jeanty
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ISBN - 978-0-9862556-3-2
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When you can pick up a book, read it and become filled with clarity on things not even directly said I consider it profound. That is exactly the kind of thing that will happen when you read the pages of this book. Even knowing that youre not one of the women Pierre once loved, you feel like pieces of them as he vividly describes their fears, their efforts, and their worth. The concept is genius because we all have feelings inside for the ones we once loved, but not many people take them and create something that can help inspire others; something that highlights our own flaws while highlighting the way another persons actions positively affected our lives. That alone is beautiful. So many women have touched the lives of men in some of these same ways but may never even know it. Poetry is sometimes placed into a box but this book allows you to see poetry in its many facets, in a transparent and beautiful way. I feel like the world needs more uplifting of women rather than tearing down. How can we create a better atmosphere for the next generation if we cant admit our mistakes and share what we have learned? Honestly this is a book you can read from front to back yet you still pick it up time after time to revisit the moments. You can feel the moments; you can feel the similarities in your own experiences. You can feel like the women who inspired each piece and the man telling the story. You understand that your encounters arent foreign to others, just usually kept quiet and this book speaks. Once again Pierre has evoked emotion, given clarity, given hope, enlightened.
-Curtrice Williams
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Contents
Dedication:
To the women whove been overlooked
To the women who have survived toxic relationships
To the women who never had the experience of seeing the beauty of who they are in a mans eyes
To the women of substance
To the women who are hopeless romantics
To the men who cant quite find the words to express the qualities they see in their women
Too often, a man grows to value a woman who was part of his life after her scent and her shadow are long gone from his life.
Ive made this mistake quite often in my past. This is a recollection of the memories I once fought for, and the women I learned to appreciate when they were no longer lovers of mine.
Your name was the theme song of my heart.
You touched my heart without the assistance of your hands.
You touched me in a way I cant even find the words to describe.
If the letters of the alphabet were enough to describe you,
I would say:
Your lips were medicine to my naked soul.
Your touch is the reason I now know the feeling of having goosebumps underneath my skin.
Your tone spoke love to my ear lobes at almost every sentence.
Your eyes allowed me to see a version of me I never knew before.
You were a free spirit bound to nothing.
With you, I felt unshackled from the issues life laid at our feet.
Your entire aura elevated me.
Your existence alone inspired me.
The man I am today is influenced by the women Ive met like you.
You are a blessing to this planet and angel in disguise.
Sometimes one of the greatest deeds a woman can do, is to introduce a man to an experience that sobers him up in a way only love can. This is an experience that will convince him to be more of a man to the next woman.
They often say that all women are queens.
You personified this very saying.
You connected with the king who was imprisoned within me.
My princess you were.
You treated me as royalty and constantly uttered words that caused me to grow more conscious of who God made me to be.
You reminded me daily of who is seated on the throne and who is The King of Kings.
Jesus, yes, he saved me and graced me with you.
A miracle you were.
All roads lead to you, and you were my favorite answered prayer.
Your life is a testament; it is a testimony of love that will forever hide itself within my memory.
Virtuous you were.
You lived a life with such boldness that it challenged other women to be unapologetically who they were made to be.
A lioness who walked with no fear
Let the Proverbs continue to pave your road, and the Psalms never depart from your lips.
Though we were of a different yoke, I cherish you, and am grateful for the love you ministered to me and the seasons before our fall.
Every woman is born as a princess. Yet, not every woman becomes a queen. Being a queen requires growth, change, evolving, maturing; and learning to value, respect, and care for yourself and others. It involves being more selfless than you are selfish, and more loving than you are defensive.
A queen is a woman who knows who created her and the purpose for which she was created.
A queen is a woman who never stops growing into who she ought to be, a wise woman who is rarely in the midst of gossip, and who partakes not in drama and childish things. A queen is a woman who is strong-minded, intelligent yet humble, soft-spoken, and doesnt justify her weaknesses, but daily focuses on improving.
A queen is everything a princess has potential to become. Until a woman grows into the queen she is created to be, she will remain a lost princess.
You knew your worth.
You never allowed your desire for love to lead you to bargain with anyone who couldnt see that you were priceless.
You discerned carefully and discounted the image many men were selling themselves to be. Players, pimps pirates looking for booty.
You didnt settle. You believed dust to be the only thing that should settle.
You had a love to offer that would never cease, like the waves of the ocean, and any man who was trying to get in the ship for the sake of relations and nothing more, you let drown alone in the tsunami of their lies.
You wanted consistency. You wanted effort. You asked for loyalty and reciprocity.
You treasured yourself and opened your eyes to see the true intentions of these pirates. Some men are looking to rob you of your purity and treat you as if youre nothing more than a piece of meat to a dog.
You love -you- far too much to compromise for too little.
Any man who couldnt offer anything more than his best, you turned from.
You refused to rely on your emotions to pick for whom youd fall, but put your faith instead in the wisdom of Gods guidance.
You never settled for less than you deserved even when what you deserved never came.
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