Invictus

Three posts in one day! WHEW. I just watched the film "Invictus" by Clint Eastwood. I already knew it, but Nelson Mandela, BOY what an amazing human being. There are a few words that helped him to survive his time in prison and the words have stuck with me.

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.