Monday's Muses

Heartbroken .

I loved you,
you loved me.
4 years.
I remember staying up
for countless hours
texting you.
Tick
tock
tick
tock.
As time elapses,
our love grows apart.
No more warm kisses.
My cheeks feel cold
like a frosted winter day.
No more laying in your arms.
Countless tears
falling down.
Drip
drip
drip.
You were the bee,
and I was the flower.
We both needed
each other.
But now 
you don't need me anymore.
I'm unwanted.
Like crumpled paper
thrown into a waste basket.
Forgotten.
My computer blasts
the music that
reminds me of
what was once us.
"Perfect Two" is what
we used to be.
I keep hoping
that one day
you will love me again
like I love you.
And every night
I stare at the time
and wait.
I don't blink.
I can't.
11:11.
I always wish that
one day the love
we used to have
will somehow come back,
but it never comes true.

Sincerely (Second Blog Make-up)

         In the book "Sincerely", written by Courtney Sheinmel one of the main characters, Sophie goes through a big change. This was how I was able to find one of the themes; Don't kiss up to a person just because you want them to like you. In the beginning of the story, Sophie would be hurt when her best friend Jessie would ignore her and make her feel left out. Where as towards the end, Sophie learned to become more independent and to stop kissing up to Jessie.

         The way Jessie was acting was effecting Sophie in the beginning because they were best friends for a long time. Sophie also wasn't used to Jessie suddenly not including her by not hanging out. Whenever Jessie would treat Sophie badly, she would cry in her room silently. By Jessie treating her this way, it brought out Sophie's jealous trait. Some ways Jessie would leave her out was by not including Sophie in any plans she made with other friends, deciding not to sit with her at lunch anymore, not coming over Sophie's house anymore, and hanging out with new people on Halloween.

         On pages 188 and 189 in the book, Sophie learns she doesn't need to kiss up to Jessie and is finally able to understand that their friendship will never be the same. This was how I was able to come up with the theme.

By The Time You Finish Reading This I'll Be Dead

      
        The book I chose to write this reading response on is, "By The Time You Finish Reading This I'll Be Dead" written by June Ann Peters. It is about a fifteen year old girl named Daelyn Rice who suffers from bullying, and tried to kill herself many times. She is unable to speak because of a failed suicide attempt. A theme that I think this book has, is that bullying can really effect a person's life.
        On page twenty five, an important quote from the book I found was, "It's so Oprah, but to feel better I ate away the pain. Then the pain ate me." This quote means that instead of Daelyn telling someone about the pain and hurt she is going through, she kept it to herself and decided to show no emotion. Sadly, when the bullying had gotten worse, it destroyed her. Not only on the outside, but on the inside as well. This is what led to her suicide attempts. In the book she tells the reader that at ten years old she was already trying to commit suicide.
        Another example of how the theme in this book is that bullying can effect a person's life, is because Daelyn forces herself to not show any emotion to anything. This way when someone bullies her, they wouldn't be able to tell if what they are doing is effecting her, even though it is. On page 45, Daelyn thinks to herself, "He has a nice smile. No he doesn't." Here you could tell she is in-denial about how she feels about this boy. This is an example of how she is refusing to show her true feelings.