whilst leila sleeps

• moving, packing, turning

  rhyme - suggests pace and a sense of urgency
• dead of night

  suggests something secretive , dead introduces a sense of dread and that she is scared to be moving at this time as bad things can go wrong at night
• boxes: i cant see out the back window

  claustrophobic atmosphere inside of the car , suggests no going back
• maybe it is not innocence after all

  worries for a moment that leila is dead, suggests paranoia
• my headlights are paranoic eyes

  personification - suggests being alert on the lookout , scared of being caught
• their smiles tighten my stomach

  the smiles are uncomfortable, unsettling, not friendly
• the men in plain suits

  cold authority figures - her fate is signed over to them now
• leila stirs

  she has woken up , suggests they arent in a safe, quiet situation
• my voice is a house with the roof blown off

  metaphor - she is very exposed and without protection
• there is a need to worry

  not the usual comforting phrase from a mother to daughter , suggests the situation is very serious and not safe that she cannot lie to her daughter
• i whisper her cradle song and she holds on

  tries to comfort her, shows a close bond between the mother and daughter