A Sinister Twinkle

There once was a twinkle that resided in a young boy's eye,
whose sparkly shine doubled whenever the boy started to cry.

So in order to increase his captivating shimmer,
he made sure the boy's days grew constantly dimmer.

That way, he figured, it'd be easy to make him shed a tear,
And it had been easy--easier still every year after year.

Well one day, this sinister twinkle was shocked in surprise,
He couldn't believe his very eyes!

Hitherto this moment, he never had seen,
another child's eyes that possessed such a sheen.

They were positively radiant, these little girl's eyes,
Then the twinkle thought, "I wonder if that's because she always cries?"

His curiosity was enormous, GIGANTIC in size,
for he just could not figure out how someone else could steal his prize.

He'd ALWAYS been the brightest, the shiniest, the best,
everyone else knew to dull themselves on his behest.

Yet this little girl had a brighter twinkle than he,
"Well," he thought, "We'll just wait and see."

And so the sinister twinkle resolved that he would spy,
so that he could figure out what other methods to try.

He watched and waited, day by day, but never saw the girl made sad,
it was so very annoying to him, and made him very mad.

"The girl's not sad, yet still,"
"The twinkle in her eye beats me every time...What could it be? Mere skill?"

The sinister twinkle continued to ponder,
his mind never left free to wander.

Then, just like that, his boy made a friend,
the very girl on whose eye the infuriating twinkle did depend.

"But, this is good for me,"
the sinister twinkle thought with glee.

"Now I'll truly uncover the secret of her shine,"
and then a triumphant, "And it shall be mine!"

However, upon inspecting the girl at a closer range,
he thought he'd finally figured out what he had to change.

"So that is the secret..." he thought with disbelief,
"Well with a treasure like that, it's a good thing I'm such a cunning thief."

The secret, it seemed, was happiness--who knew?
and all along he'd been making the boy so blue...

"Alright!" he thought, a changed twinkle,
"I'll make him so happy his heart will tinkle"

And so the once malevolent twinkle became the epitome of joy,
and no longer resorted to any misguided ploy.

And quickly, he noticed, with still growing surprise,
that he was becoming the alpha twinkle again, out of everybody's eyes.

The machinations dropped that once he wore,
and he shines more brightly than he did before.

Inspirational Quote:

"And he shines more brightly than he did before," A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein