The second day I wore my white shoes I stepped in blood
from the head wound of an old lady being wheeled into A&E
and I should have known there and then that you were as red of a flag
as the blood on my shoes but I let you send me writing and I read it
like poetry, carefully, and tried so hard to blame the violence
on anything, everything but my naïveté.
Deborah Rose is the Managing Editor for Hey! Young Writer and assisted in starting this amazing blog but now spends most of her time helping our founder, Alee Anderson, with her ghostwriting business. She is the author of two middle-grade, fantasy novels and a fan of all things history related! You can follow her on Instagram at @deborahroseintheforest or visit her website, deborahrosegreen.co.uk to read more of her writing.
Featured image by Marten Bjork .
