You sprinkle star dust on my pillow case; Texas

[Sparrow]

And I see colors in a different way
You make what doesn't matter fade to grey
Life is good and that's the way it should be

Her mother looks bewildered, but it doesn't worry her. She knows that he will take care of her and she waits with patient confidence as he thinks. Her dark eyes follow the length of his leg to the ground where the greens stuff she has been lying in sways in the wind. This stuff is food? She looks back up her mother incredulously, in a 'you first' manner.

Luckily she doesn't have to try the suspicious plants. Her mother walks a few yards away and points out a pretty, many petaled flower. It looks less suspect than the first offering and the little girl takes a couple tentative steps forward. The food, whatever it is, didn't make her mother gag. And surely the bay horse wouldn't try to poison her.

With brave determination, she lunges forward and takes a bite, wrinkling her nose at the taste. After a minute her mouth gets the hang of the bitter-sweet juice of the pink flowers and she grasps eagerly at the ground. She eats until her tummy is full, and sighs happily.

“Thank you mama,” she pipes up, her voice sincere and shy. “Where are we? Is this our home?”

Impulsively, with childish affection, the girl snuggles into her mother's chest. A satisfied nicker escapes from her lips. Her hunger is sated, her mother is back and the world is right.

sparrow

texas x redbird