Now why this man's soul was The had to understand So invisible, he by him And then gently touched his
Which the man to stand there still Despite the cold And while he stood there in that The angel his soul
It the man was not always like The man he had And angel wondered how that change had happened And it had begun
The man had born to a kind and religious family And raised in the And all his childhood This man, clearly, had been
He grew up believing, among other Man was made in the of god He to school, observed all rules While working very
He had always to help others Excelled at every task And when graduated high school Of course, he was the one in his class
And in his eighteenth When it was for him to leave He had offers from several 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 lead in the senior
It to nearly everyone There was no talent that he And for three on the football team He was, the quarterback
And he also met the girl Who did become his With her, his was now complete He had the perfect
When they had graduated They were wed in a ceremony grand Then moved to new york In a they seemed caught Where all had perfectly planned
She decorated their avenue apartment In a 1920's art-deco And six months after they had in She told him, they would soon be a child
And after their first He they were having a son Their lives could not have better And they had just begun
Together they arrived early at the On the date The father was taking no And did not to risk being late
But while waiting outside the room He could tell that something was going For too many doctors rushing in With coming out for too long
When her own finally came out With several nurses at his He said his wife had started hemorrhaging And despite best efforts, she died
in an effort to console him A nurse him his newborn to hold But from the way the felt limp in his arms He knew there was still more bad to be told
The doctor gave the prognosis As gently as anyone But he could finish explaining The father too well understood
The child had been cut off from For minutes, is far too long The damage was now His brain permanently
He'd never a job, Learn to read or ever And it be a miracle If the child learned how to walk
And with those words the felt His world falling apart And he for the words to express The tearing of his heart
He cried out, why did god have to her While she was so young And then as if to cut him Leave this here as his son
"please explain to me god's How could he To take from me my precious While leaving this
There is no 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 here 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 run home And after he had the papers He walked that night alone
And in this world he unkind He built a around 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 among the tombs While living his within his wounds
He distanced himself from all his his sisters and brothers And as time it by, he developed his eyes So could only see the flaws in others
With this final glimpse, the stepped away And the man himself out of his trance Then his walk back towards his home And few have given his soul half of a chance
And the angel himself felt As he watched old man there So he did what even do And he said a prayer
And as the prayer to his lord The angel did To follow the old man And stay by his side
For on night can one deny The of a more sympathetic eye To cast our fellow man And on night to understand
The frailty of childhood Like over summer streams And if one dared to remove time's Could one retrace those childhood
But in the winter's wind of rescued dreams, forgiven sins And who among us be deemed To rescue some forgotten
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 comes gently down Its soul to reach the ground To cover scars the world feels Perhaps to give them time to
For as men in money And professors in they know God in mercy Like winter invests in
[THE WISDOM OF