BRIGHT EYES

Bright eyes, peering out of the darkness

Sometimes she just wants to play

I catch glimpses of her innocence

Before she turns and runs away

Bright eyes full of wonder

Skipping in the fields of my mind

She runs and sings and dances with wings

Trying to leave her cares behind

Tugging at my shirt, pulling at my hand

She tries to take me there

To walk the dark corridors

To the painful past, we share

I stopped running from the past;

Uncontrolled and wild

I stopped running from the pain

I stopped running from the child

Bright eyes, still looking up at me

Still waiting, still longing; Just wanting to be

So afraid of being exposed and bare

But I reached for her hand and let her take me there