The Wisdom of Snow
Now why this man's soul was bleeding
The angel had to understand
So invisible, he stood by him
And then gently touched his hand
Which caused the man to stand there still
Despite the winter's cold
And while he stood there in that trance
The angel read his soul
It seemed the man was not always like
The man he had become
And that angel wondered how that change had happened
And when it had begun
The man had been born to a kind and religious family
And raised in the midwest
And all throughout his childhood
This man, clearly, had been blessed
He grew up believing, among other things
Man was made in the image of god
He went to school, observed all rules
While working very hard
He had always tried to help others
Excelled at nearly every task
And when he'd graduated high school
Of course, he was the first one in his class
And in his eighteenth summer
When it was time for him to leave
He had offers from several colleges
All of them ivy league
And at college in all his studies
He always received straight "a"s
And when he tried his hand in theater
He got the lead in the senior play
It appeared to nearly everyone
There was no talent that he lacked
And for three years on the football team
He was, the star quarterback
And there he also met the girl
Who did become his wife
With her, his world was now complete
He had the perfect life
When they had graduated college
They were wed in a ceremony quite grand
Then they moved to new york
In a dream they seemed caught
Where all had been perfectly planned
She decorated their park avenue apartment
In a 1920's art-deco style
And six months after they had moved in
She told him, they would soon be having a child
And after their first ultrasound
He knew they were having a son
Their lives could not have been better
And they had only just begun
Together they arrived early at the hospital
On the delivery date
The father was taking no chances
And did not want to risk being late
But while waiting outside the delivery room
He could tell that something was going wrong
For too many doctors were rushing in
With none coming out for too long
When her own doctor finally came out
With several nurses at his side
He said that his wife had started hemorrhaging