A Distant Stare

Her eyes, once lively, now withdrawn slowly faded ‘til they’d gone into a distant stare. Expression absent from her face except a tear not out of place. Perhaps taken unaware, by some long-forgotten care, she was lifted from her place and carried to transcendent space, where she recalled long-buried hopes— once razed, now raised again. Or does she think with soft regret how easily she did forget the hopes and dreams of younger days, and meets the future with a gaze unlit by dreams.