A Simple Act of Kindness
©J.D. Carroll

It wasn't all that long ago

when I last saw your smile.
                                                   
So it came as some surprise to hear you'd gone.

I should have seen it coming,

They'd been talking for a while
                                       
still I hoped the news I heard was wrong. 

We didn't have a lot in common

but we knew each other pretty well
                                                          
Two different lives that sometimes crossed but not for very long.

You always stopped what you were doing 

when I came around 
                                          
and would ask me what I had going on.

Chorus

        That simple act of kindness, 
            
that you probably forgot,

meant more than you will ever know,

more than you will ever know,
                                                                                                                                                       
that simple act of kindness meant more than you will ever know to me. 

It's funny how some little things 
stand out in your mind
while others, maybe more important, fade.
One beauty of a memory
is each time it is recalled
it can drift a bit, like when great music's played. 

You would always have a story 
about some odd situation
Involving all your family and friends.
I don't know how you did it
but whenever I was there
You always found a way to weave me in.

         Chorus

I'm sitting here this evening
watching the fire burn
and I wonder if you'll ever hear this tune.
I don't think that I can send it,
although your address is quite well known 
I'm pretty sure it would come back postage due.

To me it's kind of special
and I know I won't forget
the memory of the laughter and the songs.
All times when we were singing
and I forgot the words
you'd make them up and we'd all carry on.

Chorus  

Last Chorus:
 
         Those simple acts of kindness
              
that you probably forgot
 
meant more than you will ever know,
 
more than you will ever know,
                                                                    
those simple acts of kindness meant more than you will ever know to me.