Calmer Waters Poem by Jan E Smith

I said a prayer for you my friend before I fell asleep.
Asking God to care for you and then my soul to keep.

Funny how I thought before that you could care for me.
But now I know the truth my dear as other people see.

I gave too much of me to you with little in return.
And now the lesson tears me up, it was so hard to learn.

I only saw the good in you, refused to see the bad.
Now I feel like such a sap, as though I have been had.

I tried so hard to lift you up. I thought you needed me.
But all this time I was wrong and just too blind to see.

I remembered you on Holidays and times you might be sad.
Tried to rid your thoughts of pain and all that had gone bad.

My fault was that I learned to love and now I'm in too deep.
God help me to forget you now so I can get some sleep.