Now why man's soul was bleeding The had to understand So invisible, he by him And gently touched his hand
Which the man to stand there still Despite the cold And while he stood there in trance The angel his soul
It seemed the man was not always The man he had And that wondered how that change had happened And it had begun
The man had been born to a kind and family And raised in the And all throughout his This man, clearly, had blessed
He grew up believing, among other Man was made in the of god He to school, observed all rules While very hard
He had always tried to help Excelled at every task And when graduated high school Of course, he was the first one in his
And in his eighteenth When it was for him to leave He had offers from colleges All of ivy league
And at college in all his He received straight "a"s And he tried his hand in theater He got the lead in the play
It appeared to everyone There was no talent that he And for years on the football 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 had graduated college They were wed in a ceremony quite Then moved to new york In a dream seemed caught all had been perfectly planned
She decorated their park avenue In a 1920's style And six after they had moved in She told him, they would be having a child
And after their first He knew were having a son Their lives could not have been And they had only begun
Together they early at the hospital On the delivery The was taking no chances And did not want to risk late
But while waiting outside the room He could tell something was going wrong For too many doctors rushing in With none coming out for too
When her own doctor finally out With nurses at his side He said his wife had started hemorrhaging And despite best efforts, she died
in an effort to console him A nurse gave him his newborn to But from the way the child felt in his arms He knew was still more bad news to be told
The doctor then gave the As gently as could But before he could explaining The father only too well
The child had cut off from oxygen For minutes, which is far too The was now irreversible His permanently malformed
He'd hold a job, Learn to read or ever And it be a miracle If the child even learned how to
And with words the father felt His entire falling apart And he for the words to express The tearing of his heart
He cried out, why did god have to her she was still so young And then as if to cut him Leave this thing as his son
"please explain to me wisdom How could he To take me my precious wife While leaving alive
There is no for this life Why does he exist And if he had never been There is no way he'd have ever missed
If man is in god's image Then something 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 state run And after he had the papers He walked into night alone
And in this he found unkind He built a wall his mind And every year add new parts it had also enclosed his heart
He kept his job and his debts As he became a silhouette Of a man walking the tombs While living his within his wounds
He distanced from all his friends Even his and brothers And as time it by, he developed his eyes So could only see the flaws in others
this final glimpse, the angel stepped away And the man himself out of his trance Then continued his back towards his home And few would have his soul half of a chance
And the angel himself felt As he that old man there So he did what humans do And he said a prayer
And as the prayer flew to his The did decide To carefully the old man And closely by his side
For on this night can one The of a more sympathetic eye To upon our fellow man And on night to understand
The frailty of dreams Like fireflies summer streams And if one dared to remove time's one retrace those childhood trails?
But in the winter's wind Told of rescued dreams, sins And who us shall be deemed To rescue some dream?
So on this night of eve As once again the weave Its snowswept dreams and lights bits of magic into each life
And as the snow comes down Its soul intent to the ground To cover the world still feels Perhaps to give them to heal
For as men in money And professors in they know God invests in Like winter invests in
[THE WISDOM OF