Those faraway eyes
The child comes to me
Sadness in this dream
That weighs down my chest
All the next day and beyond
Hard breathing still seeing it
Haunts me
Follows me
Complicit in some guilty act
A child killed
As if I let her slip from my hand
Impossible to forget
For not saving her
These faraway eyes
Unlike the child
The woman gives them to me
For my ghost story
She’s bored
Contemplates something else
These faraway eyes
You catch ‘um
And bang
They kill you
More than the hottest angry look
This is the one that kills
Those haunting faraway child’s eyes
There’s no comparison
I can shut my own and see them
Can reach out my hand
In some virtual reality
And grasp nothing
Lanning Lee 