• Shadows slide stealthily across the alley snow
    Silently embracing the solemn space
    Snaking eerily while staying slow
    Slavishly showering sadness on the little girl's face

    Wishing to wile away the long winter night
    Woefully wondering whether she would make it through
    Weeping with her sorrowful small candlelight
    Willing in all her small strength to keep it true

    Remembering ruefully of what used to be
    Reminiscent remains of her reality run away
    Rash winds of winter rake her wholly
    Sending her shivering till there's nothing she can say

    Clutching candles tightly in frostbitten hands,
    Striking all in hope for some memory of heat
    Ravaging winter relinquishes not its plans
    Snuffing the flame of feat

    Delusioned by dreams of daily desperation
    Dropping the candles like dreams of her life
    Dreading now all her aspiration
    Desire to fall into death's arms no longer seems a strife

    Lampposts' light lingers on the lifeless shell
    Laments of love for the little soul
    Who had never felt love nor begun life to tell
    Lying so forlorn, never to grow old