[ WP ] A gifted eye surgeon is contacted by a 6 year old former patient . After 6 months , he wishes to be blind again .

A surgeon garbed with a white coat looks down at her clipboard, smiling as she thought of her next patient who would finally see colours and people, who would finally associate a face to the man that will be her future husband. 
 Suddenly, her door bursts open and she looks down to see a young boy. `` Sammy! How's my favourite patient doing?'' She smiles dotingly at him, remembering the look on that 6-year-olds face the day he got to see his parents. `` How are those new eyes of yours?'' 
 
 `` Ms. Lilly, I...'' Sammy starts to cry, tears rolling down his face. 
 
 Lilly crouches down, `` Sammy, sweetie, what's the matter?'' 
 
 `` Please,'' he looks at her with eyes that lie about his age, `` please, take my eyes out again. Give them to someone else, I do n't want to see anymore!'' He wails. 
 
 She looks at him with a stricken face. `` Samuel, your eyesight is a miracle! Six months ago, you were n't supposed to be able to see after your surgery... but you did. Why in the world...?'' 
 
 The little boy takes on a faraway look, haunted by ghosts only he could see. `` Ms. Lilly... I was n't happy before, I never got to be happy. I could n't see, I could n't imagine how my parents looked, I could n't match voices to things. My mommy told me once that sometimes not knowing is better. She... I would hear yells, sharp, loud noises, something breaking. I would wake up to hear loud booming noises that made me want to crawl under my bed and hide forever. I thought... maybe if I could see, everything would make sense. Maybe the world would n't be so scary anymore.'' 
 
 The surgeon held her tears as she stared at this little boy, silently praying for him. 
 
 `` Ms. Lilly... seeing everything...'' Sammy took on a look that did n't belong to his age, that should n't belong to his age. `` The world is a scary. Why did I see people dying? why did I see my mama and papa crying on the ground? Why are these bad men killing people? Why do they tell me that their God wants us dead? I do n't understand Ms. Lilly! I do n't want to see this. Please.'' He pleads. 
 
 She looks at him in despair. `` The world is n't all like this little Sammy. But right now...'' She shakes her head. `` I'm sorry.'' 
 
 `` They all say that Ms. Lilly.'' 
 
 She reaches out for him as he leaves her tent, ignorant of the gun that would soon be thrust into his hand, not knowing that he'd die before he'd turn 20, never knowing the true beauty this world has to offer.
