All I Need

Little I ask, my wants are few,
I only wish a roof and home -
a simple one this man will do
   that I may call my own.
To within its walls live and age
with a memoir to fill my page.

Plain fare is all I need for me,
a ration a day to hearty fill,
and oft to satisfy a thirsty plea
   water my dry lips to spill.
And so granted if I should ask
a cold stubbie or whisky flask.

I care not for gold and land,
nor chattel or title to obey -
just a mortgage and at hand
   money enough to pay.
I only this need ask and pose
lest the bank on me foreclose.

My clothes I do proudly wear,
no robes of bejewelled ties,
for king ‘n yeoman are I swear
   equal all in God’s eyes!
Nay, I am not of that noble ilk
and need no garments of silk.

I do not seek what I need not
like a rich man’s cars or toys -
my contentment is with my lot
   and in life’s simple joys.
A humble man beholden for
if this world favour me more.

Truly not I begrudge no man
his Hope, his Fate, his Love -
I seek truths none more than
   the word of God above!
And to behold if it is His will
His grace in life to death until.


     Written: May 2018


  With special thanks to 
  Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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