Split Your Heart, Not Your Tongue

"I closed the bedroom door behind me. I could feel her crying herself to sleep but I had no time for feeling sorry. She betrayed me and that wasn’t something I could easily forgive her for. I needed time to myself."-Mason ( RED ) Forgiveness is a touchy subject but it's the topic I said I would talk about this week. Last week I talked about dropping your ego to become someone new and make a better life for yourself, and the week before that I talked about making mistakes and learning from them. These are all major themes in RED but forgiveness is probably one of the biggest. As I mentioned before, my characters are far from perfect and they make tons of mistakes (maybe even more than the average person) which causes for a lot of forgiveness to take place. From the moment the novel starts, Peyton struggles with forgiving her mother for leaving her the way she did (readers of A Tragic Heart knows exactly what I mean). Mason and Adalyn has some obstacl...

Once upon a time There was a girl who ran from her safe world At the drop of a dime She let her feet hit the ground Never looked back, never made a sound Into the woods Miles away Ran as fast as she could Into another day There were dragons and fire But they didn't scare her at all Ran into Prince Charming but he was just a liar She was too far in for anyone to hear her call But she wasn't one to waste a moment Not one to wait to be saved The world was her component She never seemed to be fazed Because she never was like the rest Instead of going right, she turned left So into the woods Miles away She found her refuge, she found her safety Only because she stood her ground bravely Out of the woods She no longer had to run The evil and pain was over and done This is a story too true to be fiction A bitter pill was her only prescription  It set her free And this girl lived happily ever after I would know because this gi...

Go ahead and take your space Because here with me is not your place Maybe I deserve better, but then again maybe I don't Maybe you need to experience more, but maybe you won't Here we are stuck in the middle with no one but us If you leave now how do you expect me to ever trust? But if it's space that you need, then go ahead It's worse regretting than waking up in an empty bed We made it exactly to the halfway mark of forever Time ticking away just turned into never And I'm sorry to say that you're all that I got But I'm more sorry to say I hope it's everything you're hoping it's not And I'm hoping to say "no" when you want to hear "yes" That someday I'll want what I want now less And you're aching for it more than ever That you regret the unbreakable ties you severed So I stand here alone at the halfway mark of forever Time ticking away just turned into never...

Completely uninspired Not really sure what I aspire Draw inspiration from "here" But the wheels aren't cranking or turning I stare blankly, trying to think of something clever to say Nothing comes to mind The quotes don't ignite a spark They don't hit a mark So I sit and wait for something to come to me... Waiting, waiting, waiting Nothing. Wanted to say something about a battle But it all seems overused So it looks like I got nothing Wait a minute! Hey! I just got inspired by being uninspired I guess that's it for today...

Black That's what you are to me Blue Is how you make me feel Red What a bright color to see whenever I'm around you Pink Light and lovely, a feeling that's rare Green I should feel rich when I'm around you but I always feel cheap Purple In your eyes I should be royalty but that's not how you treat me   Gray I've never felt so dull   Brown I'm worth the dirt on the ground to you so bury me in it Go ahead and do it and get it over with I won't put up a fight Because black has always been my favorite color anyway

I'll do whatever it takes to get to you Slit a throat, rob a soul, whatever I need to do Because this burning desire just won't go away And it's eating me inside day after day I lust for your ending Now I'm done with pretending That it doesn't mean that much to me Because even when I close my eyes it's you I see This wanting inside Will never subside And this fascination Just keeps me waiting Some call it a dream, some say it's an obsession I know I won't be happy until you're in my possession My head's off my shoulders, my mind's enraptured  I won't rest or sleep until it's you that I captured Now I'm wishing on numbers and skeleton keys And I spend everyday down on my knees I'll keep on working until I'm buried in the dirt Here's to hoping that one of these will work... Cheers!

They tell them to stay in a child's place But their place is here with the rest of us When it gets bad they say "turn your face" But having to experience the world is a must Maybe we should try to see it all from their eyes Think wide open thoughts With the purest of minds Embrace all of the things that we once fought Give them a chance to be themselves Make their own choices, make their own dreams Take these old ways and put them on shelves And let them shine their own light to gleam