Now why this man's was bleeding The had to understand So invisible, he by him And then touched his hand
Which caused the man to stand still the winter's cold And he stood there in that trance The angel read his
It seemed the man was not always The man he had And that angel how that change had happened And when it had
The man had been born to a kind and religious And in the midwest And all his childhood man, clearly, had been blessed
He grew up believing, among things Man was made in the of god He went to school, all rules While very hard
He had tried to help others Excelled at every task And when graduated high school Of course, he was the first one in his
And in his eighteenth it was time for him to leave He had offers from several All of them ivy
And at college in all his He always received "a"s And he tried his hand in theater He got the in the senior play
It appeared to everyone There was no talent that he And for three on the football team He was, the quarterback
And he also 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 ceremony grand Then they moved to new In a dream they seemed all had been perfectly planned
She decorated park avenue apartment In a art-deco style And six months they had moved in She him, they would soon be having a child
And after their first He knew were having a son lives could not have been better And had only just begun
Together arrived early at the hospital On the delivery The father was taking no And did not want to risk late
But while waiting outside the delivery He could tell something was going wrong For too many doctors rushing in With coming out for too long
When her own finally came out With nurses at his side He said that his had started hemorrhaging And despite their best efforts, she
in an effort to console him A gave him his newborn to hold But from the way the felt limp in his arms He there was still more bad news to be told
The doctor then gave the As as anyone could But before he could explaining The father only too well
The had been cut off from oxygen For minutes, is far too long The was now irreversible His brain permanently
He'd hold a job, Learn to or ever talk And it would be a If the even learned how to walk
And with those the father felt His entire falling apart And he stumbled for the words to The tearing inside of his
He out, why did god have to take her While she was still so And as if to cut him deeper Leave this thing as his son
"please explain to me wisdom How could he To take from me my wife While leaving alive
is no reason for this life Why does he even And if he had never been There is no way he'd have been missed
If man is in god's image Then something here is amiss For is nothing of god of god of god of god of god in this"
And then he asked for the To be placed in a run home And after he had the papers He into that night alone
And in world he found unkind He a wall around his mind And every year add new parts Until it had also his heart
He kept his job and his debts As he slowly a silhouette Of a man walking the tombs While living his within his wounds
He himself from all his friends Even his and brothers And as time it went by, he his eyes So they could only see the flaws in
With this final glimpse, the stepped away 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 himself felt helpless As he that old man there So he did what humans do And he quickly said a
And as the prayer to his lord The angel did To carefully the old man And stay closely by his
For on night can one deny The gift of a sympathetic eye To cast upon our man And on this to understand
The frailty of dreams Like fireflies over streams And if one to remove time's veil Could one retrace those trails?
But whispers in the winter's Told of dreams, forgiven sins And who among us be deemed To rescue some dream?
So on night of christmas eve As again the spirits weave Its snowswept dreams and colored bits of magic into each life
And as the snow gently down Its soul intent to reach the To cover scars the still feels to give them time to heal
For as men in money And professors in they know God invests in winter invests in snow
[THE WISDOM OF