Fiction Adaptation Unit: From War to the Nursery

Another idea I have had is to do an adaptation of the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but in an inverted way, so instead of it being an innocent children's nursery rhyme, it has a darker subject, perhaps around the afterlife. The lyrics from the nursery rhyme come from a 19th century English poem called The Star, published in 1806 and written by Jane Taylor. Here is the poem:

 Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
     How I wonder what you are.
     Up above the world so high,
     Like a diamond in the sky.

     When the blazing sun is gone,
     When he nothing shines upon,
     Then you show your little light,
     Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

     Then the traveller in the dark,
     Thanks you for your tiny spark,
     He could not see which way to go,
     If you did not twinkle so.

     In the dark blue sky you keep,
     And often through my curtains peep,
     For you never shut your eye,
     'Till the sun is in the sky.

     As your bright and tiny spark,
     Lights the traveller in the dark.
     Though I know not what you are,
     Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

     Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
     How I wonder what you are.
     Up above the world so high,
     Like a diamond in the sky.

     Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
     How I wonder what you are.     How I wonder what you are. 

My main reasons for choosing this piece are that it holds happy childhood memories for me, and it also tells a good story which has a lot of potential to be very different to anything else that has ever been done before.