“Starshine”
Do you know where Stars come from?” asked the little girl.
“Do you know how they came to hang up above our world?”
The mother smiled and replied “this is what I know,
about the Stars and why they give to us their nightly glow.
Deep within a woodland, Princess Keyva sits to play
marvelous airs and phrases that weave the Stars each day.
But the jealous Sun has a plan, to keep us fixed on him,
shining ever brighter so the Stars seem rather dim.
Princess Keyva wondered how to give her Stars their shine,
she pondered for a while, then she asked the Moon Divine.
The Moon was so much kinder and put out a gentler light,
and that is why we see the Stars so brilliantly at night.
Wove from wondrous melodies, those mingling, tuneful keys,
Keyva’s music knits the stars that soar away upon the breeze.
High up and higher still, towards the sky-vault up above,
ever-glowing, twinkling Stars, that hold our dreams and hopes and love.” AE
by Annastine Ersley