Disclaimer: OK, so I took some liberties with certain characters that don't belong to me. If they did, I'd be rich grin
This has been rattling around in my brain since last winter when one Tuesday night, the weather gods decided to dump two feet of perfect snow in the few hours before dawn and so, everyone was snowed in. The morning dawned clear, cold, and sunny. Since there was so much snow, no one went to work and it was silent.
Now I live near woods but there were no planes in the air, no cars on the road, not even the sound of church bells in the center of town.
Later on, it started to snow again and it was so quiet, I could actually hear the snow falling. I spent the day curled up next to a roaring fire, listening to Sarah McLachlan's "Song For A Winter's Night" and came up with this story.
Even though the lyrics to the song are about separation from the one you love, I couldn't help but just see this little place out in the woods in the middle of the winter. Enjoy
Song For A Winter's Night
by Sarah McLachlan
The lamp is burning low
upon my table top
The snow softly falling
The air stills in the
silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling
If I
could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be
happy just to hold the hands I love
On this winter's night with
you
The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is
almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The
words of love you send me
If I could know within my heart
That
you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I
love
On this winter's night with you
The fire is dying,
my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are lifting
The
morning light steals across my windowpane
Where webs of snow are
drifting
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or
two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
And to be
once again with you