charlie is a boy
with green eyes.

charlie is a boy
who i'd love to call mine.

his personality is electric,
and music taste
nothing short of eclectic.

but lately
he's about drinking
and driving drunk
and being sleepy.

he tells everyone
that he's just
living his life
but that's hard to believe
when he stops saying hi
to us on street
when he passes us by.

i want to talk to him,
and ask how he's been,
but his mother says he's in the hospital,
so we can't speak to him.

almost a week later
he returns home and says,
"although i am back,
i wish i were dead."