Simply This Poem by La Janine Garrett

“As I lay down to sleep
I ask the lord for my soul to keep…”
I had once said these words
These very words
As l had lay down to sleep
A peaceful dream is what kept me
Freed of the world and all its things
I stopped that day, that day
Those words that had once brought
An ease to my mind, stopped me cold
“As I lay down to sleep
I ask the lord for my soul to keep…”
I had once said these words, these
Very words so long ago
This day I had to stop as I realized
Those words were sliding as if crystal water
Let no one say to you I hold no hope,
For as I lay down to sleep those words
Still hold strong on the tip of my tough
As time goes on as everything in this world,
They fade
So I had to stop, so that I can remember,
So that you may say in this you know
That I had dreams, that I had hopes
Though they may had slightly change
These years there meaning still hum true.