SpaceAce

I'm very picky about the poetry I like. I find most of it to be either boring or obtuse. I was recently reminded of a particularly good piece of verse that I feel like sharing. For various reasons that I am sure most of you are not interested in, these lines mean a lot to me. If you have a poem, verse or rhyme that has some personal meaning for you and you'd like to share it, please post it here along with any story you might want to tell about it. I respectfully request that you not post popular song lyrics, though.


This is "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.


SpaceAce