First snow falls soft on the empty
street
A color I’ve never dared to meet
The kind of white that doesn’t stain or
speak
Just covers all the cracks where the
silence starts to leak
It’s not the kind of white that blinds
the eye
It’s quiet like the sky forgot to try
To hold onto the height it used to know
And let the light come down where the
cold winds blow
It falls like a secret I can’t keep
A purity that cuts right through me
I reach out my hand but it slips away
Just like the first snow melts into grey
Niveous the white of the first snow
Falling when the sky forgets how high to
go
Niveous the quiet kind of glow
Painting my world with a color I don’t
know
Niveous pure and cold and slow
A beauty that I’m scared to hold
Niveous the white of the first snow
Leaving me breathless where the cold
winds blow
I’ve seen white walls and white lies
before
But never something that feels so raw
No stain no shadow no trace of fight
Just pure unbroken and out of sight
I trace it on my window with a sigh
A moment that will melt before my eyes
The sky bends low just to let it land
And I’m just here watching it all end
It falls like a secret I can’t keep
A purity that cuts right through me
I reach out my hand but it slips away
Just like the first snow melts into grey
Niveous the white of the first snow
Falling when the sky forgets how high to
go
Niveous the quiet kind of glow
Painting my world with a color I don’t
know
Niveous pure and cold and slow
A beauty that I’m scared to hold
Niveous the white of the first snow
Leaving me breathless where the cold
winds blow
The sky remembers now how high it is
And all the snow is gone with the mist
But the niveous mark still lingers on my
skin
A color I can’t wash away can’t define
Niveous the white of the first snow
Falling when the sky forgets how high to
go
Niveous the quiet kind of glow
Painting my world with a color I don’t
know
Niveous pure and cold and slow
A beauty that I’m scared to hold
Niveous the white of the first snow
Leaving me breathless where the cold
winds blow
Niveous
The white of the first snow
Fades to silence
