Is It Cruel?

This boy's going to kill himself by the end of the page

I know it but he doesn't

I won't tell him until the end

Until his end.

Is it cruel

to lie to him like this?

To present so many options

when I've already made up his mind?

No

it's not cruel

because I'll write him to want it.

I'll write him to crave the fall.

And then it won't be cruel

because I wrote that he wants it

so I'll write that he jumps.

Reviews

[Kenneth The Poet]

Interesting, despairing, dark, disturbing. Beautiful.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

"So I'll write that he jumps", a most agitiating ending, you guide me the reader through a greatly flowed and relevant piece then leave us all hanging, you truly are a gifted writer, well done