Split Your Heart, Not Your Tongue

Another week, another poem and scene from RED . Being that it's New Year's Eve, I think a poem about making mistakes and trying to learn and get better from them will be appropriate. We all have something we want to work out for the New Year. This poem is from Adalyn's point of view. It's called Mistakes . If you missed the poem from last week you can view it here . Mistakes are lessons Mistakes are certain But it's always ugly revealing what's behind the curtain He wasn't ready for it Neither was I But I caused it and left us to die Mistakes are normal Mistakes cause heartache But I didn't mean for his heart to break He was never there And I was lonely In my heart, he's my one and only I did something that I can't take back  There's no way of erasing the facts But where's forgiveness when you need it? I wait by the phone and I sit and sit Mistakes are things we all must make Mistakes are the th...

"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...