March #4

They talk online,
a boy and a girl,
and she talks to him about her brother.
He says,
"Don't you think he's a little old
to be running away from home?"
And she tells him,
"I think he's a little too old for a lot
of the things that he does."

The sad thing is,
she's not his older sister.
She's younger,
by two years,
but sounds
like some old, hurt person
who's been tossed until made cynical
in the waves of the world.

The world is a lonely place,
it's true,
but she shouldn't have to feel this way.
Her brother might be lost,
but he knows how to live.
She has closed off life
for wisdom and solitude,
so that she won't be hurt.

She's too young
for a lot of the things she does,
and that's more the pity than him.