Now why man's soul was bleeding The had to understand So invisible, he by him And then touched his hand
Which caused the man to there still Despite the winter's And while he stood in that trance The angel his soul
It seemed the man was not always The man he had And angel wondered how that change had happened And when it had
The man had born to a kind and religious family And raised in the And all throughout his man, clearly, had been blessed
He grew up believing, other things Man was in the image of god He went to school, all rules working very hard
He had always tried to others Excelled at nearly every And when he'd graduated high Of course, he was the first one in his
And in his eighteenth When it was for him to leave He had offers from colleges All of them ivy
And at in all his studies He always received "a"s And when he tried his in theater He got the in the senior play
It appeared to everyone 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 become his With her, his world was now He had the perfect
When they had college They were wed in a ceremony grand Then they moved to new In a they seemed caught all had been perfectly planned
She decorated their avenue apartment In a art-deco style 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 have better And they had only just
Together they arrived early at the On the date The was taking no chances And did not want to being late
But waiting outside the delivery room He could tell that was going wrong For too many doctors rushing in With none coming out for too
When her own doctor finally out several nurses at his side He that his wife had started hemorrhaging And despite their best efforts, she
Then in an effort to him A nurse him his newborn to hold But the way the child felt limp in his arms He knew was still more bad news to be told
The doctor then the prognosis As as anyone could But he could finish explaining The only too well understood
The child had been cut off from For minutes, which is far too The was now irreversible His brain malformed
never hold a job, Learn to read or ever And it would be a If the child even how to walk
And with those the father felt His entire falling apart And he stumbled for the words to The inside of his heart
He cried out, why did god have to her While she was so young And as if to cut him deeper Leave this here as his son
"please explain to me god's How could he To take me my precious wife leaving this alive
There is no reason for this Why does he even And if he had never been There is no way he'd have ever missed
If man is made in god's Then something here is surely 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 into that night alone
And in world he found unkind He built a around his mind And every year add new parts Until it had also enclosed his
He kept his job and his debts As he slowly a silhouette Of a man walking among the While living his life his wounds
He distanced himself all his friends Even his and brothers And as time it went by, he his eyes So could only see the flaws in others
With this final glimpse, the angel away And the man shook out of his trance Then continued his walk back his home And few have given his soul half of a chance
And the angel himself felt As he that old man there So he did even humans do And he said a prayer
And as the flew to his lord The angel did To carefully the old man And stay by his side
For on this can one deny The gift of a sympathetic eye To cast our fellow man And on this to understand
The frailty of childhood fireflies over summer streams And if one dared to remove time's one retrace those childhood trails?
But in the winter's wind Told of rescued dreams, forgiven And who among us shall be To rescue forgotten dream?
So on night of christmas eve As once again the spirits Its snowswept dreams and colored With of magic into each life
And as the snow comes down Its soul intent to reach the To cover the world still feels Perhaps to them time to heal
For as men in money And professors in they know God in mercy Like invests in snow
[THE WISDOM OF