Now why this man's soul was The angel had to So invisible, he by him And then gently his hand
Which caused the man to there still Despite the winter's And while he there in that trance The angel his soul
It seemed the man was not always The man he had And that angel wondered how change had happened And it had begun
The man had been born to a and religious family And in the midwest And all throughout his man, clearly, had been blessed
He grew up believing, other things Man was made in the of god He went to school, all rules While working hard
He had always tried to others Excelled at nearly task And he'd graduated high school Of course, he was the first one in his
And in his eighteenth When it was time for him to He had from several colleges All of ivy league
And at college in all his He always received "a"s And when he his hand in theater He got the lead in the play
It appeared to nearly There was no talent he lacked And for years on the football team He was, the quarterback
And there he met the girl Who did his wife With her, his was now complete He had the perfect
When they had college They were wed in a quite grand Then moved to new york In a dream seemed caught Where all had been planned
She their park avenue apartment In a 1920's art-deco And six months after had moved in She told him, they would soon be a child
And after first ultrasound He knew they having a son lives could not have been better And they had only just
Together they arrived at the hospital On the date The was taking no chances And did not to risk being late
But while waiting outside the room He could tell that something was going For too doctors were rushing in With coming out for too long
When her own finally came out With several at his side He said that his wife had started And despite their efforts, she died
in an effort to console him A nurse him his newborn to hold But from the way the child felt in his arms He knew was still more bad news to be told
The doctor then the prognosis As as anyone could But before he finish explaining The only too well understood
The had been cut off from oxygen For minutes, is far too long The damage was now His brain permanently
He'd never a job, to read or ever talk And it would be a If the child even learned how to
And those words the father felt His entire world falling And he for the words to express The tearing inside of his
He cried out, why did god have to her While she was so young And then as if to cut him Leave this here as his son
"please to me god's wisdom How he decide To take me my precious wife leaving this alive
There is no reason for this Why does he exist And if he had been born There is no way he'd ever been missed
If man is made in image Then something here is surely For is nothing of god of god of god of god of god in this"
And then he for the child To be placed in a run home And he had signed the papers He walked into night alone
And in this world he found He built a wall his mind And year he'd add new parts it had also enclosed his heart
He kept his job and his debts As he slowly a silhouette Of a man walking among the living his life within his wounds
He distanced from all his friends Even his sisters and And as time it by, he developed his eyes So they could only see the in others
With final glimpse, the angel stepped away And the man shook himself out of his Then continued his back towards his home And few would have given his soul of a chance
And the angel himself felt As he watched old man there So he did what even do And he said a prayer
And as the prayer flew to his The did decide To carefully the old man And stay closely by his
For on night can one deny The of a more sympathetic eye To cast our fellow man And on this night to
The frailty of dreams Like fireflies summer streams And if one dared to remove veil Could one retrace those trails?
But in the winter's wind Told of rescued dreams, forgiven And who among us be deemed To rescue forgotten dream?
So on night of christmas eve As once the spirits weave Its snowswept dreams and colored With bits of magic each life
And as the snow comes down Its soul to reach the ground To cover scars the still feels Perhaps to give time to heal
For as men invest in And in what they know God in mercy Like winter invests in
[THE OF SNOW]