My daughter, Sara Jain, knows this bedtime story well... we would read it to her almost every night...

Purple-Dark and Star Shine

Great Boundless Space was PURPLE-DARK
There was no World to make a mark
And not a single sound was heard
Not a whisper - not a word

No butterflies or sparrows winging
No moon or stars or children singing
No Sunrise - Rainbows - Morning Dew
No Earth for me - nor Earth for you

Way out there in Blue - Black Spaces
No beast nor Birds or People faces
Nothing WAS - just THOUGHT was there -
Only thought - no one to share

The PURPLE-DARK was lonely sad
Needing much to make it glad
"I want a WORLD - A UNIVERSE
To be alone - What could be worse?"

That thought got big and bigger still
And HUGE it grew, but not UNTIL
It's size was great like PURPLE-DARK
It BURST ALIVE in glory sparks

Sparks of SPIRIT - sparks of LIGHT
Sparks that showered in the night
Filling sky with star-bright dust
To make a Universe they must

They danced and whirled and spun around
They formed some Land without a sound
They flew so fast they froze like snow
Then melted down so seas could flow

Oceans and a newborn Earth

The World had come at last to birth

Seas and land and sky and stars
Venus - Mercury - and Mars
Pluto - Saturn - Jupiter
They hadn't been - and now they were

Planets, Stars and Galaxies
Suns and Moons and Rolling Seas
Now PURPLE-DARK was filled with glee
His THOUGHT became REALITY

But then he looked and said, "Oh, dear -
I have no Boys and Girls to hear
The Sparrows sing - to greet the Sun
I'm still alone - What can be done?"

PURPLE-DARK had one DESIRE
To make Mankind of fine star-fire
To make them Man and Womankind
To give them heart and soul and mind

To send them forth to fill the land
To give them thoughts both small and grand
To give them laughter - give them tears
Give them hours - days and years

Give ears to hear and eyes to see
And lips to speak and LIFE TO BE
And legs and arms and other parts
And best of all - full loving hearts

Then after newborn sun had set
And Stars with evening's hour had met
Sandman then would shut their eyes
And send this prayer across the skys

"Help us to do the things we should
To be to others kind and good

In all we do in work and play
To grow more loving every day"

And now it's time to close your eyes
And sleep the sleep to make you wise
Remember, Star-Fire - Star-Bright Child
To love all creatures tame and wild
To be a help when you wake
To all that lives - Then you will make
A world of Joy - one Family
So PURPLE-DARK may always see
His thoughts has come alive with Love
AS IT IS BELOW - SO IT IS ABOVE

PURPLE-DARK now says "Goodnight"
Tomorrow wake in SHINING LIGHT
- Ruth K. Sisson