Watching through a window from her room at ten o'clock

A child saw a falling star

It seemed to fall forever far

And in the grass beside her house

It tumbled to a stop.

The girl slid fuzzy slippers on and quickly ran outside

Her sleepy eyes swept through the grass

And landed on a piece of glass

And when she saw the tiny thing

She knew it was alive

What the girl had thought was glass stood up and dusted off

It fluttered silver fairy wings

Its crystal body twinkling

It flew up to the child's ear

And then politely coughed

It whispered in a dusty voice from far beyond our time

"I have come from far away

and through the starry milky way

to grant you any wish you ask

so let me know your mind."

Her young sapphire eyes aglow the little lady smiled

She thought of what her wish might be

and she decided, finally

"I wish to see the stars with you."

The star said "Come then, child."

It conjured her a sailing boat to sail into the sky

The boat set off into the night

The star providing it with light

And so they sailed the universe

And waved the world goodbye

The dawn of the next day the child woke up with a yawn

Leaning on her windowsill

She'd drifted off against her will

And dreamed a starry sailboat

And a fairy on her lawn