Cousin Charles

Cousin Charles

Raised by Grandma and Grandpa Charles grew up wild.
They were in their seventies to old to raise a child.
I believe he missed having his real parents of his own.
With a chip on his shoulder he lived in his world alone.

I did my best to give him a cousins love and understanding
I was probably his best friend in his life so demanding..
We were about the same age we knew and loved each other.
Then I got married and was drafted by the Army.

While I was far away in Texas Grandma and Grandpa died..
leaving him without the only parents he had known in his life.
I believe it changed his life a lot without their love and guidance
I know he got married for a couple of years he had two children.

Laura and Little Charley they were the apple of his eye.
Then he started running with the wrong crowd and got into trouble.
He was convicted and served five years in a correctional facility.
During that time his wife found someone else and divorced him.

Charles was overwhelmed and did not care anymore about life..
When he got out of the reformatory he was wilder than ever..
They knew him in every bar around where he was always drunk.
It seemed every time I seen him he was drunk and wanted to fight..
His life became a drunken wild adventure.

Finally after years of drinking alcohol at 61 he died of liver failure.
I guess in a way his life was predictably doomed from the start.
I can still remember the many times him and me as kid's.
Played together as loving cousins and very good friends.

BY: Kings

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