Angel in Red

By Jacklyn Mcqueen

Angel in Red by Jacklyn Mcqueen is a relatable poetry book describing the complexity of relationships in early adulthood, that can become toxic without recognition. Told in 4 sections: Angel in Red, With Him, Without Him, and Acceptance, the author uses her personal lessons to show how being so hurt, can damage a person. Each poem shows vulnerability and makes connections with the reader, exploring how the theme of heartbreak is too common and too powerful to pretend does not exist.
Everyone makes mistakes; no one is perfect. No one is a clear devil or angel, everyone has good and bad in them. Do not blame yourself for mistakes of the past--learn and grow from them. Treat people better than they treat you. Everyone is a little bruised, but do not let pain keep you from happiness. Spread your wings and be a realistic angel--an angel in red.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098323271

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Angel in Red

©2020 Jacklyn Mcqueen

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print ISBN: 978-1-09832-326-4

ebook ISBN: 978-1-09832-327-1

For the secretly sensitive people who feel

the most pain, but hide their hurt.

Table of Contents

Preface

Angel in Red

With Him

Without Him

Acceptance

An Inside Look At My Next Book, Swipe Right For Heartbreak

Acknowledgements

Preface:

Sometimes poetry can seem out of place, like puzzle pieces. Puzzle pieces that make us feel emotions we did not know existed until finally looking at the whole picture. Each one makes us feel a certain way, but not until it’s all together is it able to be understood at capacity. That’s how each of these poems are written. What seems irrelevant, is purposefully placed.

This book is based on a timeline of multiple relationships: mine, my friends’, and people involved. Relationships that conveniently, ended at the same time. Weaved into one plot in the form of poetry, it is actually a mix of various couples’ situations.

I wrote it after my own breakup with a guy no one knew I was with. It was a toxic relationship not stable enough to share. When it was good, it was great; when it was bad, it was brutal. No relationship should be like how mine was. It led me to get diagnosed with PTSD. I loved this person more than I loved myself, which is why it was so easy for him to hurt me. I made excuses for the lies and manipulation I went through, when I should have held him accountable for his treatment towards me. However, my friends went through the same thing as I did in their own way, at the same time, and we hid it from everyone. We were, you could say, the heartbreak club.

Writing poetry about this secretly dark point in my life was devastating and extremely challenging for a first-time teenage author to comfortably share. It’ll be a lot harder to explain the true story behind all of this in a chapter book. Rather than short poems, I hope to publish a narrative explaining the relationship I went through, that led me to write Angel in Red. I wasn’t ready to elaborate before, because the situation was too fresh, too many scars were still healing. During the months I could not formulate full chapters, I wrote this. I’m happy to say that the person I separated from is highly supportive of my writing career. Anything I write regarding us, is simply out of hurt, not hate. He has stated how excited he is to read what we went through, and hopes it can help other people. I never thought as an eighteen (now twenty) year old, I would be writing this forward, publishing it for anyone to purchase.

I want readers to feel validated and know whatever emotions they feel, are not a phase or "something that wasn’t