My Desire

My Great-Great Grandmother Hannah Cropper Ashby was a wonderful poet. I was recently reading the book of poems she had published and stumbled across this little gem:

MY DESIRE

I want to walk the way of life 

Steady and unafraid.

I want to walk the way of life

With men that God has made.

Not with the proud and haughty few,

Who boast of wealth and power;

But with those who bear the heavy load

Of every day and hour. 

I can't wait until this is me!