Read this when the world has you in its cruel grasp.

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Its about strength in the face of adversity..

INVICTUS
by
William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


When I read this, I'm ready to fight till the cows come home, and when they do, I fight the #%*%$%^ cows too!

That's beautiful!

awesome poem fuzzy, kind of reminds to take responsiblity for our own lives.

That is my favorite poem. I've got it memorized. I love that poem! It's on my wall, in my planner, and on my bathroom mirror. I find myself constantly repeating it while I'm at work these days.

Love this poem too. Should really get around to reading alot more then I do currently..

Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.