Charlie's Last Letter
I don't
know if I will
have the time to
write anymore
letters
because I
might be too busy trying
to participate.
So if this
does end up
being the last
letter,
I just want you
to know that I was in
a bad place
before I
started high school
and you
helped me.
Even if you didn't know
what I was
talking about
or know someone
who's gone
through it.
You made me
not feel alone.
Because I know
there are people who
say all these
things don't happen.
And there are people
who forget what
it's like
to be sixteen when
they turn seventeen.
And know these
will all be
stories someday
and our pictures
will become old
photographs
and we'll all become
somebody's mom
or dad.
But right now these
moments are
not stories.
This is happening.
I am here and I
am looking at
her
and she is so
beautiful.
I can see
it.
This one moment
when you know
you're not
a sad story,
you are alive.
And you stand up
and see the lights
on buildings
and everything
that makes you
wonder,
when you were listening
to that song
on that drive with the
people you love
most in this world.
And in this moment, I
swear, we are infinite.
