Now why this man's was bleeding The angel had to So invisible, he by him And then gently touched his
Which the man to stand there still Despite the cold And he stood there in that trance The angel his soul
It seemed the man was not always The man he had And that angel wondered how change had happened And when it had
The man had been born to a and religious family And raised in the And all his childhood man, clearly, had been blessed
He grew up believing, among things Man was in the image of god He went to school, all rules While working very
He had tried to help others Excelled at nearly every And when he'd graduated school Of course, he was the first one in his
And in his eighteenth When it was for him to leave He had from several colleges All of them ivy
And at in all his studies He always straight "a"s And when he tried his hand in He got the in the senior play
It appeared to everyone was no talent that he lacked And for years on the football team He was, the quarterback
And there he met the girl Who did his wife With her, his was now complete He had the life
When had graduated college They wed in a ceremony quite grand Then they to new york In a dream they seemed all had been perfectly planned
She decorated their park apartment In a art-deco style And six months they had moved in She told him, they would 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 want to risk being
But while waiting outside the delivery He could tell something was going wrong For too many doctors were in none coming out for too long
When her own doctor came out With several nurses at his He said that his wife had started And their best efforts, she died
in an effort to console him A nurse gave him his to hold But from the way the child limp in his arms He knew there was still more bad news to be
The doctor gave the prognosis As gently as anyone But before he could explaining The father only too understood
The child had been cut off from For minutes, which is far too The was now irreversible His brain malformed
He'd never a job, Learn to or ever talk And it be a miracle If the even learned how to walk
And those words the father felt His entire world apart And he stumbled for the words to 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 thing here as his son
"please explain to me wisdom How he decide To take me my precious wife leaving this alive
There is no for this life Why does he even And if he had been born There is no way he'd ever been missed
If man is made in god's something here is surely amiss For is nothing of god of god of god of god of god in this"
And he asked for the child To be placed in a run home And after he had signed the He into that night alone
And in this he found unkind He built a wall around his And year he'd add new parts Until it had also enclosed his
He his job and paid his debts As he slowly became a Of a man walking the tombs While living his life his wounds
He distanced himself all his friends Even his sisters and And as it went by, he developed his eyes So they could only see the in others
With this final glimpse, the stepped away And the man himself out of his trance continued his walk back towards his home And few would have given his soul half of a
And the angel felt helpless As he watched old man there So he did what even do And he said a prayer
And as the flew to his lord The did decide To carefully the old man And closely by his side
For on night can one deny The gift of a more eye To cast upon our man And on night to understand
The frailty of childhood Like fireflies over summer And if one dared to remove time's Could one those childhood trails?
But whispers in the winter's Told of rescued dreams, sins And who among us shall be To rescue forgotten dream?
So on this of christmas eve As once again the spirits Its snowswept dreams and lights With bits of magic into each
And as the snow comes gently Its intent to reach the ground To cover the world still feels Perhaps to them time to heal
For as men invest in And professors in what know God in mercy Like winter in snow
[THE WISDOM OF