리나 한 Rina Han

Until the Snow Brings You Back

The snowfall drifts in silence

Across a city fast asleep

And I walk these empty sidewalks

Holding memories I keep

Your voice still warms the winter

Like a fire I used to know

But the echoes fade to shadows

In the places we would go

I light a single candle

In the window where you stood

And I watch it flicker softly

Like you always said it would

If Christmas has a heartbeat

Mine is trembling in the cold

For the love we never finished

For the words we left untold

I still hear distant laughter

From the houses filled with cheer

But the joy inside their windows

Never seems to reach me here

Still the snow keeps falling gently

On the heart you used to hold

Painting every step in silver

Like a story half-unfolded

And though you’re gone this winter

I can feel you in the light

Every star becomes a whisper

Of a promise burning bright

So I’ll place my hopes together

With the wishes that I make

That the love we lost this Christmas

Finds a place it won’t break

And if heaven hears my longing

Let it guide you through the night

’Til the songs of distant angels

Bring you safely to the light

For this Christmas feels like sorrow

Yet it’s beautiful somehow

’Cause the snow that falls around me

Feels like you are here right now