Second Star in the Snow

Whispers in the night… a call to take flight.

Valentine sky… but I was born to survive.

Born on a night meant for love and red roses,

February air where the cold never closes.

Youngest of three, with a weight in my chest,

Mother in storms, father at work—always less.

Big for my age, too loud in the room,

Counting my pennies like shelter from doom.

They called me names, I stayed kind inside,

Learned how to stand there and swallow my pride.

One friend beside me when hallways turned cruel,

Two “different” kids under hard school rules.

We stood back to back when the world threw stones,

Learning young how to carry our own.

I was quiet, but I felt everything,

Carried hearts like they were my own.

I gave my love without conditions,

Not knowing I was standing alone.

I love too deep, I break too slow,

Hold on long after I should let go.

I bleed in silence, I burn inside,

Still choosing love every time I’m denied.

If this is the cost of a heart that’s true,

I’ll pay it all—yeah, I always do.

Best friend found new arms, I faded from view.

I ran to my mother—she was drowning too.

Teen love was poison in velvet disguise,

Pretty smiles, empty eyes, sharp goodbyes.

I changed my body, the mirror stayed cold,

So I wore a mask, did what I was told.

Heat of the kitchen, pressure, speed—

But my hands kept dreaming brickwork and need.

2017: dust on my skin,

Her eyes said “breathe,” so I let her in.

We lived on dreams we couldn’t afford,

Laughing while debt beat down the door.

Spring 2019 screamed my mother’s name:

Unconscious, broken, nothing the same.

We signed years in ink, a farmhouse of hope,

But love pulled her back to the edge of the rope.

Engaged but empty, 2022 tore,

Two ruined futures on a quiet floor.

So I climbed a mountain dressed in white,

Sat in the snow and surrendered the fight.

I begged the stars, “Just let me sleep,”

But morning found me still breathing deep.

I crawled back home, told my dad the truth—

He said, “Pain doesn’t choose you. You choose.”

[Bridge – Death / Rebirth] (drop to piano + strings)

So I climbed a mountain dressed in white,

Sat in the snow and gave up the fight.

I begged the stars, “Just let me sleep,”

But morning found me still breathing deep.

Frozen and shaking, I crawled back home—

Told my father, “I can’t do this alone.”

He said, “Son… pain doesn’t decide who you are.

What doesn’t kill you lights the match in the dark.”

[Final Chorus – World Shaker] (full orchestra)

I love too deep, but I stand my ground,

I turned every wound into solid ground.

I turned self-hate into fuel, turned grief into flame,

I carved out my spine and I carried my name.

Let the world fall down—let it break, let it shake,

I’ll build it back up from the pieces you take.

From Valentine’s midnight to the edge of the snow,

I died in that silence… and came back to glow.

I’m becoming. And now you know.

Whispers of the night a call to take flight.

I found the second star and I chose life