
Crimson Snowfall ’92
The streetlights hiss in the freezing dark, Snow drifting heavy over Dayton’s scars. ’92 still bleeding in the winter air, A cold so deep it teaches you to stare. Old wreaths hang crooked on forgotten doors, Silent nights shattered on the hardwood floors. Footsteps echo like a memory refusing to fade, Christmas lights flicker on the ghosts we made. All the carols sound hollow tonight— Like broken prayers trapped in the light. I hear the past like a choir off-key, Dragging chains where the joy should be. Crimson snowfall on a midnight street, Winter humming with a sorrowed heartbeat. Doomed December, where the truth cuts through, Shadows crawl back to ’92. Every chime rings heavy with the things we knew— Frozen echoes in a world turned blue. Icicles drip like a ticking clock, Frozen time locked in a neighborhood block. The city still whispers when the cold comes down, Like it’s warning every corner of this quiet town. Faces we lost still linger in the dark, As if the frost remembers every mark. And when the choir sings “peace on earth,” The air trembles under the weight of worth. Snow keeps falling like a pale disguise, But nothing hides the ache behind the eyes. Hope feels brittle as the branches bare, Snapping under memories we still wear. Crimson snowfall, heavy and true, Painting the rooftops in a painful hue. Cold winds whisper where the sorrow grew— Pulling us back to ’92. Every year the season breaks anew, As if winter never learned to heal that wound. If warmth ever lived here, it froze in place, A ghost in the window with a hollow face. But we light one candle for the lost and the few— A flicker of mercy in a world askew. No miracles falling with this December rain, Just snowflakes shaped like unspoken pain. Crimson snowfall on the year’s last breath, Hymns dissolving in the cold of death. The holiday hum feels colder than truth— A dirge still echoing from ’92. Yet we walk through the winter, battered but new, Carrying the names the night once knew.

