Twinkle twinkle little star
Up above the world so far,
I found one lying in the grass
It was warm and it had mass
It was not a star at all
It was a fingernail that fell
From the hand I keep in jars
Twinkle twinkle little star
I asked my mother what you are
She said a diamond in the dark
I asked my father he said shush
The basement has a funny hush
I went downstairs to count the teeth
The ones I pulled from underneath
The floorboards where the bad men sleep
Twinkle twinkle little star
I wonder if you wonder too
What it feels like to be glued
To the ceiling of a room
Where no one comes to change the moon
Where the only light is small and red
From the clock beside the bed
Where the girl who looks like me lies still
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
A hole that lets the darkness through
An eye that blinked and never grew
A piece of sky that learned to fall
Into a well behind the mall
I keep your sisters in a row
They do not twinkle anymore
They just stare
Just stare
Just stare
Up above the world so bright
I drew a face on you last night
You blinked at me with ash and bone
And whispered you were not alone
That someone else was in the sky
A shape that matched the one I hide
Beneath my ribs behind my tongue
Twinkle twinkle little star
I think you are a silver scratch
A button from a dead man's patch
A shard of mirror from the crash
A tooth I lost and never found
It sank into the frozen ground
And now it lives up there with you
Rotting in a cradle too
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
If I could reach you from the yard
If I could pull you down and hard
Would you be soft? Would you be warm?
Would you fit inside my palm?
Would you hum a song I used to know
Before I learned that stars could grow
Inside the bellies of the ones
Who stare too long at the sun?
Twinkle twinkle little star
I have a ladder and a car
I have a rope and I have time
I have a reason and a rhyme
I will climb the tallest tree
I will carve your name in me
I will eat the light you give
I will learn the way to live
Inside the space where nothing is
Twinkle twinkle little star
I am not afraid of the dark
I am afraid of what leaves a mark
What twinkles is not always good
Sometimes it's blood on broken wood
Sometimes it's eyes behind the door
Counting freckles on the floor
Sometimes it's you
Sometimes it's me
Twinkle twinkle
Can't you see
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
I wonder if you wonder too
What it feels like to be true
To be the thing that children sing
When they don't know about the string
That pulls the stars down from the sky
And strings them up to watch them die
Twinkle twinkle little star
I know exactly what you are
You are the light that never reaches
You are the lesson no one teaches
You are the word I cannot say
The game I play
The price I pay
The star that fell
The wish I ate
The door that opened much too late
Twinkle twinkle
Little scar
Twinkle twinkle
Little star...
Twinkle twinkle little scar
How I wonder what you are.











