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    Protecting Your Innocence
    Protecting Your Innocence
    Protecting Your Innocence
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    Protecting Your Innocence

    By Kimplachat A. Downs

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    Inspired by lifes obstacles, poet Kimplachat Downs promotes the empowerment of women in her poetry collection, Protecting Your Innocence. She encourages women to tell their stories, resulting in the shedding of excess baggage, bitter pasts, and vague future views about love. The key mission is for women to find their way back home resuming the role that it is okay to be loved beyond their pain.

    Downs is an ambitious young woman with a story to tell, and she has found her passion in writing poetry for and about women. She offers inspiration to women, encouraging them to find hope as they move beyond their daily challenges. With her strong views and voice, she conveys a message of hope to the world of women. In her poetry, she draws from her personal pain, recalling the countless times she has been lost and drawn her strength from God and from those she holds closeher family and friends.

    Protecting Your Innocence provides guidance to women who need to know their worth and to discover who they truly are: women of substance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 19, 2013
    ISBN9781475972566
    Protecting Your Innocence
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    Kimplachat A. Downs

    Kimplachat A. Downs is a poet and inspirational speaker born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. At seventeen, she gave birth to her daughter, Deniyah. Shortly after graduation, she enlisted in the US Navy and is currently serving. She lives in Great Lakes, Illinois.

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      Protecting Your Innocence - Kimplachat A. Downs

      Copyright © 2011, 2013 by Kimplachat A. Downs.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-7258-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-7257-3 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-7256-6 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013901375

      iUniverse rev. date: 03/06/2013

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter One

      So in Love

      Mr. Right

      I Think I’m Falling

      I Can Trust Him

      I’m Just Saying

      Passionate Love

      My Love Potion

      A Man

      My Blessing

      I Love You

      Possibility

      He Proposed

      Your Happily Ever After

      Chapter Two

      False Advertisement (He Really Didn’t Mean It)

      In Love with a Crackhead

      Yo Mama

      Crapped Out

      One Way

      The Absence of Love

      F.R.I.E.N.D.

      Liar, Liar

      You Got Beat at Your Own Game

      Ignoring the Signs

      Just Sorry

      Mr. Insecure

      Cut Communication

      Chapter Three

      Who Is She?

      Who Is She?

      Second Base

      The Thoughts of a Mistress

      He Is with a Man

      A First-Name Basis

      Chasing an Empty Dream

      Eagles Can’t Soar with Birds

      Sharing

      Her Beauty Faded

      At the End of the Day

      More to Offer Than Her Body

      Your Man Pays My Bills

      Chapter Four

      At the Bottom

      A Mother versus a Mammy

      Slow Down

      A Child

      Identity

      All Because He Doesn’t Want to Be with You

      Don’t Stay Down Too Long

      The Cries of Your Child

      No Longer About You

      Finding Myself

      Emotional Relapse

      Some 2010 Mothers/Grandmas

      His Mother

      Chapter Five

      In Search of a Way Out/Back and Forth

      An Empty Feeling

      A Confused Heart

      Why Doubt Me

      Stay Inside

      What Is More Important?

      Back and Forth

      Quit

      Just Move On

      Impatient

      You End Replacing You

      Only Because You Allow Him To

      I Am Superwoman

      Chapter Six

      No More Tears to Cry

      The Winning Team

      Messin’ Over the Wrong Chick

      My Tears

      The Monster You Created

      Half of Everything

      On to the Next

      Twitter That

      He Gives It Back

      I Don’t Go Backwards

      30 Seconds

      My Last Message

      Chapter Seven

      A Better Me

      Cries of a Weeping Willow

      A Purpose

      No Longer Blind

      Friend or Foe

      The Key to Friendship

      He Was Never Meant To Be My Man

      Forgiveness

      Questions

      Emotional Mess

      A Better She

      A Figment of My Imagination

      Greetings

      Chapter Eight

      Dropping My Baggage Off

      I Am a Woman

      Weeding Them Out

      I Let Down My Guard

      In My Dreams

      Blind Spot

      Stay Steadfast

      I Let a Good One Get Away

      As Good as It Gets

      In My Shoes

      A Good Man

      Covenant

      Chapter Nine

      Something You Must Remember

      Beautiful

      About the Author

      To all women, my hope is to inspire you to push forward

      to know that morning will soon be here.

      Acknowledgments

      I owe it all to God. I thank him for all of my gifts and talents. To my family in Christ, wow! Thank you for all the prayers that you sent up. Deniyah Downs, my love, thank you for sharing your mother with the world. You are my inspiration to reach for the stars. I love you. I would like to thank my wonderful parents, Barbara and Charles Pettway, for the endless and unselfish support throughout my life. I want to thank the rest of my family as well for supporting me and being present at every event.

      A special thanks to my photographer, Kenneth Smith of Waukegan, Illinois, for shooting the cover of this project. Kwan Duncan, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, for God allowed you to come into my life at that appointed time and plant a seed, which continues to grow within. You truly helped place my feet on a path to finding a better me because you shared your story. I now give the world what I have within me, in hope that all women would desire to know their worth. And it started from the seed you planted.

      Thank you to Ray Micheal Williams of Powerful Thinking. Thank you for the constant encouragement to reach beyond the stars and for affording me the opportunity to speak on your amazing show. Many people have started the journey with me, yet only a few have remained.

      I say thank you to everyone, whether your role was to leave me with a lesson learned or to just simply blow with the wind. You have played a major role in the completion of this project. You are greatly appreciated. The people who still remain in my life are there for a reason.

      With that said, to my family and friends, I love you all and would not have it any other way. I look forward to the journeys that lie ahead.

      Introduction

      So many times, we as women lose our self-identity when we try to prove our worthiness of a man’s love. As a woman, the apple of God’s eye, it is a natural desire for marriage and a family, all surrounded by a white picket fence.

      Yet what happens when things don’t work out as planned? I will tell you what. Your scars become proof of all residues left behind from heartbreak, bitterness, and need for revenge. The best thing you can do, aside from leaving him, is to discover a new you.

      In Protecting Your Innocence, you will find the realities we as women face. Oftentimes, we keep the outcomes suppressed, fearing what others may think. Some may hold on to failed marriages for the sake of the children. The children, not you, are hurt in the situation. It has now become evident in society that our children are not only a product of us, but also the examples we set in their early adolescence. Believe it or not, something as simple as the way you carry on a conversation, along with your presentation, has an impact on their behavior. Oftentimes, we do things in the presence of children not being mindful, resulting in them mimicking certain inappropriate behavior.

      I never realized how three words—protecting your innocence—could cover so much. It is just what it reads, the innocence you had once before you lost sight of your self-worth as well as the innocence of the young woman-to-be that you are obligated to validate and protect. It all links back to your past, present, and future choices.

      To all the single women with no children, what happened to the little girl you saw in the mirror? The one who had big dreams and goals to reach? Once upon a time, that little girl was you. Your dreams have escaped you, and your goals and aspirations in life, once so vivid, have faded to be nothing more than a figment of your imagination. On the other hand, some women are not willing to accept being alone. At times, we as women are not receptive to the ideal that the very things we desire in our lives are the very things God does not want us to have. Only because we want right now happiness in some cases, we tend to get more than what we bargain for. The worst feeling in the world is to love someone and not be loved in return.

      From the breakups to the makeups, the abusive relationships, and the realization that you may not be the only one, all helps shape you into the woman you are to become. Hear me when I say, You are not alone. My broken heart as well as every bad situation has now become my strength and ambition to reach out to women,

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