Now why man's soul was bleeding The had to understand So invisible, he by him And then touched his hand
Which caused the man to stand still Despite the cold And while he stood in that trance The angel read his
It seemed the man was not like The man he had And that angel wondered how that change had And when it had
The man had been born to a and religious family And in the midwest And all his childhood This man, clearly, had been
He grew up believing, among things Man was made in the of god He went to school, all rules While working hard
He had always tried to others Excelled at nearly task And he'd graduated high school Of course, he was the first one in his
And in his eighteenth When it was time for him to He had offers several 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 senior
It appeared to nearly There was no that he lacked And for three on the football team He was, the star
And there he met the girl Who did become his With her, his world was now He had the perfect
When had graduated college were wed in a ceremony quite grand Then they to new york In a dream seemed caught all had been perfectly planned
She decorated park avenue apartment In a 1920's art-deco And six months after had moved in She told him, they would soon be having a
And after their first He knew were having a son Their lives not have been better And they had only begun
Together they early at the hospital On the delivery The was taking no chances And did not to risk being late
But waiting outside the delivery room He could tell that something was wrong For too many doctors rushing in With none coming out for too
When her own doctor finally out several nurses at his side He said that his wife had started And despite best efforts, she died
Then in an to console him A gave him his newborn to hold But from the way the felt limp in his arms He knew there was still more bad news to be
The doctor then the prognosis As gently as anyone But he could finish explaining The only too well understood
The had been cut off from oxygen For minutes, which is far too The damage was now His permanently malformed
He'd never a job, Learn to read or ever And it be a miracle If the child learned how to walk
And those words the father felt His entire world apart And he stumbled for the to express The tearing of his heart
He cried out, why did god to take her While she was so young And as if to cut him deeper Leave this here as his son
"please to me god's wisdom How he decide To take me my precious wife While leaving this
There is no for this life Why does he exist And if he had never born is no way he'd have ever been missed
If man is in god's image Then something here is surely For is nothing of god of god of god of god of god in this"
And he asked for the child 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 around his And every he'd add new parts it had also enclosed his heart
He his job and paid his debts As he slowly a silhouette Of a man walking the tombs While living his life his wounds
He distanced from all his friends Even his sisters and And as time it went by, he his eyes So they could only see the flaws in
With final glimpse, the angel stepped away And the man himself out of his trance Then continued his walk back his home And few would given his soul half of a chance
And the himself felt helpless As he watched old man there So he did what humans do And he quickly a prayer
And as the prayer flew to his The did decide To follow the old man And closely by his side
For on this can one deny The gift of a sympathetic eye To cast our fellow man And on night to understand
The frailty of childhood Like fireflies summer streams And if one dared to remove time's Could one retrace those childhood
But whispers in the wind Told of dreams, forgiven sins And who us shall be deemed To rescue some forgotten
So on night of christmas eve As again the spirits weave Its snowswept dreams and colored With bits of magic into each
And as the comes gently down Its soul to reach the ground To cover scars the still feels Perhaps to them time to heal
For as men invest in And professors in what they God invests in Like winter invests in
[THE WISDOM OF