Under the Starry Sky

Salihah Clayton
6 min readJul 2, 2022

There once was a girl who loved the sound of the piano. She lived in a house far removed from others with her loving father. Her name was Lowa, and she so desperately wanted to make music with her fingers. While sitting in front of the open fire, she turned to her father and asked for a simple request.

“Dad, may I have a piano for my next birthday?”

Her father looked at her and thought about this. Lowa fidgeted in her sitting position, she was anxious for a yes.

“Tell you what,” He says with a loving and warm smile,

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