I was hoping I’d find that person <br />The one I once knew you to be. <br />But the one I found that your life has made <br />Is not the one I thought that I would see. <br /> <br />You’re not anything like I’d remembered <br />You’re different in many ways. <br />I can not place my finger on it <br />But I know I will some day. <br /> <br />I might have changed in your view too <br />However; you’ve never mentioned so. <br />But if I had and it wasn’t good <br />I hoped that you’d tell me so. <br /> <br />I know that years do change a man <br />Can make them better or maybe worse. <br />But with God in my life now my dearest friend <br />I choose to take Him over any friendship first. <br /> <br />He has always kept his promises to me <br />Something you I’m sorry will never be able to say. <br />He never tells me good bye, fair well <br />His love for me doesn’t work that way. <br /> <br />So all I can do from here on out <br />Is to love you from afar. <br />Because I am the way I am now <br />And you are now the way you are.<br /><br />Linda Winchell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-was-hoping-2/
