Opportunity

"Do you ever feel like we're living on borrowed time?"

The boy next to me stays silent, but I feel his chest rise with every breath he takes.

"No one really expects that time to be so long, but when it gets cut we act like we could have never seen it coming."

His eyes meet mine.

"Everything changed when I moved here. I'm not sure if that was a good thing, or a bad thing."

His hand touches my cheek.

He wipes away a tear falling from my eye as he replies,

"It was a change in life."