Slow tears

I look up at you
as a tear rolls slowly
down my cheek
I think of better days
and wonder if I will
ever feel that way again
You look at me
with those eyes I know so well
always serious, so deep
and insightful as though
you are always in control
But not today not now
now you look scared
like for once you have no answer
I gaze at you looking
into those brown eyes
Hoping to understand why
you have said those things you did
I wonder for a moment
if this is a dream
if I shall wake in
the morning and be relieved
You looked at me with
confusion I have never seen
lowly pulling me closer
towards you and wipe the
tears from my cheek
as you tell me everything
will be all right and
go back to sleep little one
I wish things could be so
simple but things do not
fade away like the way
they did when you were just a child