Beautiful boy,

you were sent to

mend my soul

and break my heart.

You were here

to teach me.

About how

beauty and cruelty

can coexist.

Beautiful boy,

life is so different now.

Seeing that fulfillment and poverty

are one and the same.

You were here

for a whisper in time

and managed to teach me

more than I could ever

hope to have taught you.

Beautiful boy,

Such expectations already met

by your death.

You were here

to mend my soul,

break my heart,

bend my spirit

and help me

to live again.