Now why this soul was bleeding The had to understand So invisible, he by him And then gently touched his
Which the man to stand there still the winter's cold And he stood there in that trance The read his soul
It the man was not always like The man he had And that angel wondered how change had happened And when it had
The man had been to a kind and religious family And in the midwest And all his childhood This man, clearly, had blessed
He up believing, among other things Man was in the image of god He went to school, observed all working very hard
He had always tried to help Excelled at every task And when he'd graduated school Of course, he was the first one in his
And in his summer When it was for him to leave He had offers several colleges All of ivy league
And at in all his studies He always received "a"s And when he tried his in theater He got the lead in the play
It to nearly everyone There was no that he lacked And for three years on the football He was, the quarterback
And he also met the girl Who did become his With her, his world was now He had the perfect
When had graduated college They were wed in a ceremony quite Then they to new york In a dream seemed caught Where all had been perfectly
She decorated their park avenue In a art-deco style And six months after had moved in She told him, would soon be having a child
And after their first He they were having a son Their lives could not been better And they had only begun
Together arrived early at the hospital On the date The father was no chances And did not want to being late
But while waiting outside the delivery He tell that something was going wrong For too many doctors rushing in With coming out for too long
When her own doctor came out With several nurses at his He said that his wife had started And despite their best efforts, she
in an effort to console him A nurse gave him his newborn to But from the way the child limp in his arms He knew was still more bad news to be told
The doctor then the prognosis As gently as anyone But before he could finish The only too well understood
The had been 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 learned how to walk
And with words the father felt His entire world apart And he stumbled for the words to The tearing inside of his
He cried out, why did god have to her While she was still so And then as if to cut him this thing here as his son
"please to me god's wisdom How could he To take from me my wife While leaving this
is no reason for this life Why does he even And if he had never born There is no way he'd have ever missed
If man is made in image Then something is surely amiss For there is 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 he had signed the papers He walked into that night
And in this world he unkind He a wall around his mind And every year he'd add new Until it had enclosed his heart
He kept his job and paid his As he slowly became a Of a man walking the tombs While his life within his wounds
He himself from all his friends Even his and brothers And as time it by, he developed his eyes So they could only see the in others
With this final glimpse, the angel away And the man shook himself out of his Then his walk back towards his home And few would have given his soul of a chance
And the angel felt helpless As he that old man there So he did even humans do And he quickly said a
And as the prayer flew to his The angel did To follow the old man And stay closely by his
For on this can one deny The of a more sympathetic eye To upon our fellow man And on this to understand
The frailty of childhood Like fireflies over summer And if one dared to remove veil Could one retrace childhood trails?
But whispers in the wind Told of rescued dreams, sins And who among us shall be To rescue forgotten dream?
So on night of christmas eve As once the spirits weave Its snowswept dreams and lights With bits of magic into life
And as the snow gently down Its soul to reach the ground To scars the world still feels to give them time to heal
For as men invest in And professors in what they God invests in Like winter invests in
[THE WISDOM OF