Now why this soul was bleeding The angel had to So invisible, he by him And then gently his hand
caused the man to stand there still Despite the winter's And while he there in that trance The angel his soul
It the man was not always like The man he had And that angel wondered how that had happened And it had begun
The man had been born to a and religious family And raised in the And all throughout his This man, clearly, had been
He grew up believing, among other Man was made in the of god He to school, observed all rules While working hard
He had always to help others at nearly every task And when he'd graduated school Of course, he was the first one in his
And in his summer When it was time for him to He had offers from colleges All of ivy league
And at in all his studies He always straight "a"s And when he tried his in theater He got the in the senior play
It appeared to nearly There was no that he lacked And for years on the football team He was, the star
And he also met the girl Who did his wife With her, his world was now He had the perfect
When they had graduated They were wed in a quite grand Then moved to new york In a dream seemed caught Where all had been planned
She decorated their park apartment In a 1920's style And six after they had moved in She him, they would soon be having a child
And after first ultrasound He knew they having a son lives could not have been better And they had only begun
Together they early at the hospital On the delivery The father was no chances And did not want to risk being
But while waiting outside the delivery He tell that something was going wrong For too many were rushing in none coming out for too long
When her own doctor came out With several at his side He said that his wife had hemorrhaging And despite their best efforts, she
Then in an to console him A nurse him his newborn to hold But from the way the child felt limp in his He knew there was more bad news to be told
The doctor then gave the As gently as anyone But before he finish explaining The father too well understood
The child had been cut off oxygen For minutes, which is far too The damage was now His brain permanently
never hold a job, Learn to or ever talk And it be a miracle If the child even learned how to
And with words the father felt His entire world apart And he stumbled for the to express The tearing inside of his
He cried out, why did god to take her While she was still so And as if to cut him deeper Leave this here as his son
"please explain to me wisdom How could he To take me my precious wife leaving this alive
There is no reason for this Why he even exist And if he had never born There is no way he'd have been missed
If man is made in god's Then something here is amiss For there is of god of god of god of god of god in this"
And then he asked for the To be in a state run home And he had signed the papers He walked that night alone
And in this world he unkind He built a wall his mind And every he'd add new parts Until it had also his heart
He kept his job and paid his As he became a silhouette Of a man walking among the While living his life his wounds
He distanced from all his friends Even his sisters and And as it went by, he developed his eyes So they could see the flaws in others
With this final glimpse, the angel stepped And the man himself out of his trance Then his walk back towards his home And few would have given his half of a chance
And the angel felt helpless As he watched old man there So he did even humans do And he quickly said a
And as the prayer flew to his The angel did To follow the old man And stay closely by his
For on this can one deny The gift of a sympathetic eye To cast upon our man And on this night to
The frailty of dreams Like fireflies over summer And if one to remove time's veil Could one retrace those trails?
But whispers in the wind Told of dreams, forgiven sins And who among us shall be To rescue forgotten dream?
So on this night of eve As again the spirits weave Its snowswept and colored lights With bits of magic into each
And as the snow comes down Its soul intent to reach the To cover scars the world feels Perhaps to give them time to
For as men invest in And in what they know God invests in winter invests in snow
[THE WISDOM OF