False News- Story Poem

This past week my eyes shed tears A friend, I thought had died I've known him for so many years For days I mourned and cried Little did I know the fact But false news had spread the word Another friend was too quick to react From something that he heard He said- "Billy had a heart attack And he cried- "He didn't survive" But when I talked to his brother Jack He said- "Billy is still- ((ALIVE))" Billy his brother is alive and well In fact, he wasn't ill at all It was another person with the same name who fell And who unfortunately took the fall So, the story goes... Twice this past week I thought I lost two friends. Both long time childhood friends. The first was my friend Billy, someone spread the word on FaceBook that he had died from a heart attack, unfortunately, it was someone else with the same name. Turned out it was a 93-year-old man who lived a long, beautiful life. The second was a classmate that someone said to me recently at my HS reunion, that our classmate passed 2 years ago. Turned out...she is still alive too! False news spreads quickly...thank goodness it turned out to be a happy ending in both cases. :) An emotional ride for sure.