Sunlight Leaks Through Snow

By Rena Lin

Sunlight Leaks Through Snow is a book about love, loss, pain, and picking yourself back up when no one is around to do it for you. It was started on a whim, with the hope of it inspiring someone. It was written in between school days and three-hour tennis practices and heaping amounts of homework, and it was a dream in word form that became a reality. Sunlight Leaks Through Snow is meant to help those who are in need of it and to teach them that they are not alone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543470406

Rena Lin

About the Author: Rena Lin is a sixteen-year-old writer and tennis player who lives in Los Angeles, California with her family. She is a junior in high school, and enjoys the art of creation in any form. She will be attending Yale University when she graduates and will play for their tennis team. Though she enjoys poetry the most, she also writes contemporary fiction and fantasy.

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Copyright © 2018 by Rena Lin.

ISBN:                  Softcover                  978-1-5434-7039-0

                            eBook                        978-1-5434-7040-6

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Interior Photos Credit: Ajuni Singh

Rev. date: 01/13/2018

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Dedicated to my family

for being my sunlight in the snow

whoever is reading this right now,

you are holding in your hands

a piece of my soul,

my mind,

my heart

you are holding in your hands

something i have hid away

my entire life

it’s the finished product

of the heartache

the pain

loving

and hating

and fighting

this is all i’ve lived for

and all i’d die for

i’ve written this

with a hope

that somewhere

sometime

someone

who is giving up

maybe will hang on

a little longer

-    what i started with

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in every word i write

there is an echo

of your name

ricocheting around the walls

and the voices

are trying to talk over each other

they are so loud

and at the same time,

so quiet

and they beat against my edges

until you are all i hear

-    unstable

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it is not the sun’s fault that it is too bright

to be looked at

that is why it rises

and falls

it tells itself that maybe next time

we won’t take it for granted

-    past the darkness

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i remember the day you walked away

so clearly.

i remember everything about it:

the grass

tickling my ankles

the wind

and the drizzle

of rain

on the top of my head

i remember wondering

if i’d ever meet someone like you again,

and how i could continue to live

with the knowledge

that someone like you existed

i remember everything about that day.

-    square one

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i want to be myself

but i don’t want to be the me

that does not love you

-    you are (1)

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through the world i can see myself

if i am a lover of the universe,

i am also a lover of me

and if i would not hurt the flowers in my garden,

then i should not hurt my body either

but although i wish i could live

by that philosophy,

there is something in me

that always prevents me

from loving myself

the way i love everything else

-    the sacred places

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i know there was a reason

i fell in love with you

the only problem is that now,

the reasons all string together

-    blurred

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i believe

it is essential

to watch people.

and try to understand

what they

are going through

just by the way they carry themselves

just by the way they dress

just by the way their eyes look

try to understand

why they do

what they do

why they are

the way they are

and why they live

the way they live

-    see, not just look

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when

will