Now why man's soul was bleeding The angel had to So invisible, he by him And then gently his hand
Which caused the man to stand still Despite the winter's And while he stood there in that The read his soul
It seemed the man was not always The man he had And that angel wondered how that change had And when it had
The man had born to a kind and religious family And in the midwest And all his childhood This man, clearly, had been
He grew up believing, other things Man was made in the of god He to school, observed all rules While very hard
He had always tried to help Excelled at every task And he'd graduated high school Of course, he was the one in his class
And in his summer When it was time for him to He had offers from several All of ivy league
And at in all his studies He always received "a"s And when he tried his hand in He got the lead in the senior
It to nearly everyone was no talent that he lacked And for three years on the football He was, the quarterback
And there he met the girl Who did become his With her, his world was now He had the life
they had graduated college They wed in a ceremony quite grand they moved to new york In a dream seemed caught Where all had been perfectly
She decorated their park apartment In a 1920's art-deco And six after they had moved in She told him, they 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 they early at the hospital On the date The was taking no chances And did not want to risk late
But while waiting outside the delivery He tell that something was going wrong For too doctors were rushing in none coming out for too long
When her own finally came out With several nurses at his He said that his 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 news to be
The doctor gave the prognosis As gently as could But before he finish explaining The father only too well
The child had cut off from oxygen For minutes, is far too long The was now irreversible His permanently malformed
He'd hold a job, to read or ever talk And it be a miracle If the child learned how to walk
And with words the father felt His entire falling apart And he stumbled for the to express The tearing inside of his
He cried out, why did god to take her she was still so young And then as if to cut him this thing here as his son
"please explain to me wisdom How could he To take from me my precious While leaving this
There is no reason for this Why does he even And if he had been born is no way he'd have ever been missed
If man is in god's image Then something here is 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 world he found unkind He built a wall around his And every year he'd add new Until it had also his heart
He kept his job and his debts As he became a silhouette Of a man walking the tombs While living his life his wounds
He distanced himself all his friends Even his and brothers And as it went by, he developed his eyes So they only see the flaws in others
With this final glimpse, the angel away And the man shook out of his trance continued his walk back towards his home And few would have his soul half of a chance
And the himself felt helpless As he that 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 closely by his side
For on night can one deny The gift of a sympathetic eye To cast our fellow man And on this to understand
The of childhood dreams Like fireflies summer streams And if one dared to remove veil one retrace those childhood trails?
But in the winter's wind Told of rescued dreams, sins And who among us shall be To some forgotten dream?
So on this night of eve As once again the spirits Its snowswept and colored lights With bits of magic into life
And as the comes gently down Its soul to reach the ground To cover scars the world still Perhaps to give them to heal
For as men in money And in what they know God in mercy winter invests in snow
[THE WISDOM OF