Now why this soul was bleeding The angel had to So invisible, he by him And then gently touched his
Which caused the man to stand still the winter's cold And while he stood there in trance The angel read his
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 and religious family And in the midwest And all throughout his man, clearly, had been blessed
He grew up believing, among other Man was in the image of god He went to school, observed all working very hard
He had always tried to help at nearly every task And when he'd 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 in all his studies He always straight "a"s And when he tried his in theater He got the lead in the senior
It appeared to nearly There was no talent that he And for three years on the 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
they had graduated college They were wed in a ceremony grand they moved to new york In a dream they caught Where all had been planned
She decorated their avenue apartment In a 1920's style And six months after had moved in She him, they would soon be having a child
And after their ultrasound He knew they were a son Their lives could not have better And they had just begun
Together they early at the hospital On the date The was taking no chances And did not want to being late
But while waiting outside the room He tell that something was going wrong For too many doctors were in none coming out for too long
When her own doctor came out several nurses at his side He said that his wife had hemorrhaging And their best efforts, she died
Then in an to console him A gave him his newborn to hold But the way the child felt limp in his arms He knew was still more bad news to be told
The doctor then gave the As gently as could But he could finish explaining The father only too well
The child had been cut off from For minutes, is far too long The damage was now His brain malformed
never hold a job, Learn to read or ever And it be a miracle If the child even how to walk
And with those words the felt His entire world apart And he for the words to express The inside of his heart
He cried out, why did god to take her While she was so young And then as if to cut him this thing here as his son
"please explain to me god's How he decide To from me my precious wife While leaving this
There is no reason for life Why does he exist And if he had never born There is no way he'd ever 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 after he had signed the He walked into that alone
And in world he found unkind He a wall around his mind And year he'd add new parts Until it had also his heart
He his job and paid his debts As he slowly a silhouette Of a man walking the tombs While living his life within his
He himself from all his friends Even his and brothers And as it went by, he developed his eyes So they could see the flaws in others
this final glimpse, the angel stepped away And the man shook out of his trance Then continued his back towards his home And few would have given his soul half of a
And the angel himself felt As he watched old man there So he did what humans do And he said a prayer
And as the prayer to his lord 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 our fellow man And on this night to
The of childhood dreams Like fireflies over streams And if one dared to remove veil Could one retrace those childhood
But whispers in the wind Told of rescued dreams, forgiven And who among us shall be To rescue forgotten dream?
So on this of christmas eve As once the spirits weave Its snowswept dreams and lights With bits of into each life
And as the snow comes gently Its intent to reach the ground To cover scars the world 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]