Now why this man's was bleeding The had to understand So invisible, he by him And gently touched his hand
Which caused the man to stand still the winter's cold And while he stood in that trance The angel read his
It the man was not always like The man he had And that angel how that change had happened And it had begun
The man had been to a kind and religious family And in the midwest And all his childhood This man, clearly, had blessed
He grew up believing, among other Man was in the image of god He to school, observed all rules While working hard
He had always tried to others at nearly every task And when he'd graduated school Of course, he was the one in his class
And in his eighteenth When it was time for him to He had offers from colleges 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 lead in the play
It appeared to everyone was no talent that he lacked And for three years on the team He was, the quarterback
And there he also met the Who did his wife With her, his was now complete He had the perfect
When they had graduated They wed in a ceremony quite grand they moved to new york In a they seemed caught Where all had been planned
She decorated park avenue apartment In a 1920's style And six months after had moved in She him, they would soon be having a child
And their first ultrasound He knew they having a son Their lives could not been better And had only just begun
Together they early at the hospital On the delivery The father was no chances And did not to risk being late
But waiting outside the delivery room He could tell that was going wrong For too doctors were rushing in none coming out for too long
When her own doctor finally out With nurses at his side He said his wife had started hemorrhaging And despite their best efforts, she
in an effort to console him A nurse gave him his to hold But from the way the child felt limp in his He knew there was still more bad to be told
The then gave the prognosis As as anyone could But he could finish explaining The father too well understood
The had been cut off from oxygen For minutes, which is far too The was now irreversible His brain permanently
He'd hold a job, Learn to or ever talk And it would be a If the child even learned how to
And with words the father felt His entire falling apart And he stumbled for the to express The tearing of his heart
He cried out, why did god to take her she was still so young And as if to cut him deeper Leave this thing as his son
"please to me god's wisdom How he decide To take from me my precious leaving this alive
There is no for this life Why does he even And if he had never been There is no way he'd have ever been
If man is in god's image something here is surely 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 signed the He walked that night alone
And in this world he found He a wall around his mind And year he'd add new parts Until it had also enclosed his
He kept his job and paid his As he slowly became a Of a man walking the tombs living his life within his wounds
He distanced from all his friends Even his and brothers And as it went by, he developed his eyes So they could only see the flaws in
With final glimpse, the angel stepped away And the man shook himself out of his Then continued his walk back towards his And few would have his soul half of a chance
And the himself felt helpless As he watched that old man So he did what humans do And he quickly a prayer
And as the flew to his lord The angel did To carefully the old man And closely by his side
For on this night can one The of a more sympathetic eye To cast upon our man And on night to understand
The frailty of childhood Like fireflies over streams And if one dared to remove veil Could one retrace childhood trails?
But in the winter's wind Told of rescued dreams, forgiven And who us shall be deemed To rescue some forgotten
So on this night of eve As once again the spirits Its snowswept dreams and colored With of magic into each life
And as the snow comes down Its soul intent to the ground To scars the world still feels to give them time to heal
For as men in money And professors in what know God invests in Like winter in snow
[THE OF SNOW]