'I Was Hoping' Poem by Linda Winchell

I was hoping I’d find that person
The one I once knew you to be.
But the one I found that your life has made
Is not the one I thought that I would see.

You’re not anything like I’d remembered
You’re different in many ways.
I can not place my finger on it
But I know I will some day.

I might have changed in your view too
However; you’ve never mentioned so.
But if I had and it wasn’t good
I hoped that you’d tell me so.

I know that years do change a man
Can make them better or maybe worse.
But with God in my life now my dearest friend
I choose to take Him over any friendship first.

He has always kept his promises to me
Something you I’m sorry will never be able to say.
He never tells me good bye, fair well
His love for me doesn’t work that way.

So all I can do from here on out
Is to love you from afar.
Because I am the way I am now
And you are now the way you are.