Midnight Lullaby

Little stars,
dancing in the midnight velvet sky,
where the darkness presses all around us,
and you're our only source of light.
Crescent moon,
won't you smile down at me?
Waning back where we can't see,
and you soon become too new
to show your face.
Here where I lie,
singing my midnight lullaby,
I smile back at you and sleep.
I know when morning dawns,
my crescent moon will then be gone,
and I'll hope as I stretch and yawn
that you come, and smiling wider,
you'll settle where you belong.