I was e-mailed recently from a family in Austria that my family and I have stayed with several times. It informed me that my best friend had been run-over and killed.
Ode to the Innocent
He was taken from this world
Before he discovered the reality of it -
Before it crushed his enthusiasm.
He has left me behind in this world.
He left before he had a chance to change it.
But he changed me.
And I will go on in life with him in mind.