Now why this man's was bleeding The angel had to So invisible, he by him And then gently touched his
Which caused the man to there still Despite the cold And while he stood in that trance The angel his soul
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 to a kind and religious family And in the midwest And all throughout his This man, clearly, had been
He grew up believing, among other Man was in the image of god He to school, observed all rules While working hard
He had always tried to help Excelled at nearly task And when 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 them ivy
And at in all his studies He always received "a"s And he tried his hand in theater He got the lead in the senior
It appeared to nearly was no talent that he lacked And for three years on the team He was, the quarterback
And there he met the girl Who did his wife With her, his world was now He had the life
they had graduated college They were wed in a ceremony quite Then moved to new york In a dream they seemed all had been perfectly planned
She decorated park avenue apartment In a 1920's style And six months they had moved in She told him, would soon be having a child
And after their ultrasound He knew they having a son Their lives could not been better And they had just begun
Together they early at the hospital On the delivery The father was no chances And did not to risk being late
But while waiting outside the room He could tell that something was going For too many doctors were in With none coming out for too
When her own doctor came out several nurses at his side He said that his had started hemorrhaging And despite best efforts, she died
Then in an effort to him A nurse gave him his to hold But from the way the child felt limp in his He knew there was still more bad news to be
The doctor then gave the As as anyone could But he could finish explaining The father only too understood
The child had been cut off oxygen For minutes, is far too long The was now irreversible His brain malformed
He'd hold a job, to read 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 to express 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 this thing as his son
"please explain to me god's How could he To take from me my precious While this alive
There is no reason for this Why he even exist And if he had never born There is no way he'd have ever been
If man is in god's image Then here is surely amiss For is nothing of god of god of god of god of god in this"
And then he for the child To be placed in a run home And after he had the papers He walked into night alone
And in this world he found He built a wall around his And year he'd add new parts Until it had also his heart
He kept his job and his debts As he became a silhouette Of a man among the tombs While his life within his wounds
He himself from all his friends Even his and brothers And as it went 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 continued his back towards his home And few would have his soul half of a chance
And the angel himself felt As he watched old man there So he did even humans do And he quickly said a
And as the flew to his lord The angel did To follow the old man And stay closely by his
For on night can one deny The of a more sympathetic eye To upon our fellow man And on this night to
The frailty of childhood Like over summer streams And if one dared to remove veil Could one those childhood trails?
But whispers in the wind Told of rescued dreams, sins And who among us be deemed To some forgotten dream?
So on night of christmas eve As once again the spirits Its dreams and colored lights With of magic into each life
And as the comes gently down Its soul intent to the ground To cover the world still feels Perhaps to give them to heal
For as men invest in And in what they know God invests in Like winter in snow
WISDOM OF SNOW]