Peter Blackburn's Poems
Themes | Alphabetical List | Home

Number One

I want
to be the best,
to get the best,
to have
the rest of the world
look up to me.
Surely
someone
has to be
Number One.
Why not me?

Then I see
Someone
truly
Number One,
truly humble.
The world
looks up to him
on a cross! -
proud
to be rid
of his uncomfortable
presence,
his incisive
teaching,
his perfect
life!

He’s alive!
Number One
indeed!
He is my Lord!


© Peter J Blackburn 2001
Back to Humility poems