Stella
Mother’s lullaby drifted Stella to sleep. Mother let her hand rub against her back every night.
“Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are,”
Stella’s eyes flitted shut.
“Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky,”
Mother’s voice was so gentle...
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are...”
Before Mother could finish, Stella drifted off to sleep, full of peaceful dreams.