Among the Broken Ones

8. Lost Boy

The reports on tv
said he died,
rigor mortis
from hazing.

I dont know
who he is
or why I cared
but upon learning
of his last breath
I gasped;
the air suddenly
became painful to breathe
for somewhere
in the wind
is a lost boy;
blowing in our hair,
swaying in the trees,
rattling in our windows,
he becomes everywhere
quietly waiting
to be heard.