Invictus

A small quote to start....

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.

-William Ernest Henley

You'll find that i have emboldened my favorite parts of the verse. Its an old one, published some 150 years ago in an obscure book without a title... Someone must've found it gathering dust in a corner of a library and put it up to some big-shot publisher before it reached fame.. But that's that about it.. more about me now :-D

Fight! Fight! Fight!
Never give up my right!
Pummel me to the ground
Up for the second round!

There is no force in Heaven or Hell
No weapon of Strength or Magical Spell!
I have to face one still
That can but stand over my Will!

The weapon I hold has no form
It is naught but a herald of the storm
The sharpest sword is the Mind at the start
The hardest shield is a Strong Heart!

Tis not my game to govern the world
But I will not silently watch the curtain unfurl
It is in my place to put up a fight
Victory or Loss is veiled from sight...

There is a place upstairs
For those who made their stand
Who did not keep looking up
For someone to give them a hand!

The world is no place
For the weak of mind
To the suppressed
It is not kind!!

Survival of the fittest
That is the chief of laws
The loser but rots
On his flesh the victor gnaws

Reach out for the stars

That is worth aiming for
Bend them before you
This is Open War!!

PS: This is guy is the greatest inspiration i have ever seen!!