Blest Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

I am more interested in buying
Or collecting books than reading.
With my iPad, in enlarging
iBooks library than in reading!

With music too, in downloading
Rather than playing the music
Is it ambition or acquisitiveness
Or a remnant of ambitions?

I preach to others about how
Substance should be more important
And not technology or success
Or having more knowledge.

Of either books or composers
But that I know a moment of true joy
From a piece of music
Or a page of prancing poetry.

Should life lift me as a wave,
Make me realize the purpose of life
And fall before Lord god Almighty
Who gave me the capacity to live this way.

01 September 2013