Him

Well, you can’t necessarily convince anyone get help. Make sure you don’t take complete responsibility for his actions – you can’t control them, so you’re not responsible. You can be there for him to talk to, try to alleviate the pain, show that you care, be patient, and if you’re going through or you’ve been through similar problems, you could provide an example in yourself and your own strategies that there’s another way that could help him. Unless you’re able and willing to call the police if he’s on the brink of suicide (and I’m not recommending that), those are the only things you can do. They can make a big difference. Hopefully they’ll make a difference to him. 🙂

The poem is nice. Are you going to send it to him? It’s worth pointing out that if he’s the type of person who gets guilty easily, the last line might make him feel bad. But it sums up how you feel and how much you care about him. When I was 14 a slightly older friend of mine wrote me a poem about once being in the hell I was going through, and about all the ways it would change. It meant a lot to me that someone would do that for me.