Playspace: June 2007
While I don’t agree with this piece in its entirety (because I don’t believe that everything just rests with me) I do love the reminder about the courage and heart we all have, if we just choose to tap into it.
Invictus
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.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws
him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
–Hasidic saying