Child

This little girl, she stood beside
a place I can't describe.
She washed her face and combed her hair
and wore her dress with pride.

She let me take her photograph
outside her house of tin.
She smiled at me, but I could see
the pain behind her grin.

I never have returned to see
that child with all her grace.
But etched in me for eternity,
her precious little face.

Photo taken by me in the village of Bibiani, Ghana.