Lullaby

The mother says angrily, "sleep tight, sleep tight" and the two sons hug each other loosely.

A song saying, "Love shall die, but shall live tonight" is playing loudly under the pillow on which the two kids rest.

And they dream,

" A middle aged woman wearing a yellow face enters a dark room constantly blinking her eyes"

the dream ends.

The two kids whisper into each others ears, they say incomprehensible words and smile in the air. The song ends concluding, "If a woman can love, she can put dreams into your eyes."

The kids unwrap themselves from each other and dismiss the pillow. They look with thoughtful expressions at the ceiling concluding "If a woman can love, she can put dreams into your eyes."

3 hours past midnight, a yellow eyed girl of 3 comes in the room with a doll carefully held in her hands. She says, "Brothers, can my daughter sleep here tonight?"; the brothers gaze at the ceiling which to them now is the sky. The girl to her doll sings a lullaby,

"When the fairies see light

when the angels fall from the sky

my only

in her yellow blanket sleeps tight"

The girl of 3 repeats this thrice and then thrice again. The two brothers hug each other, throw the pillow at the girl and sleep tight.

Shringi

Feburary 08, 2012