The Story In The Stars

This is a story that should start “once upon a time”
But the girl and the boy live in the Magic present Time
One day, when they have kids, the story will start “Once Upon a Time”
In beautiful Delhi, in the land that is the Heart of the World
A girl called Aru lived with her brother, Ashmit.
They were very special because their Mother was writing a story for them.
The story was on the Internet and lived among the stars where all the people
In the World could read it if they looked.
One day a lady in a place halfway across the World
On the southern-most tip of Africa, where, if you lean too far over the sea
You can fall all the way to the South Pole,
Was looking in the stars and saw the story.
When she read about the kid’s it was so interesting
Reading a story as it was being told is exciting
And almost never happens because most stories start
In the land of “Once Upon a Time”
The lady drew a picture of Aru telling her school
“Every night my brother says: I won’t dream tonight”
And then she saw that Mom, Dad and the two kids
Went on holiday to Jaipur, so Ashmit was in the picture
And the lady drew Delhi’s beautiful eagles that fly in the sky
And Rajastan’s desert camels that carry the people
Then, last, there were two elephants from Jaipur –
These she drew for Ashmit to dream about
And have happy dreams there in the sky with his story
That lived in the stars.