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.
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