This week's take is on select sections of a poem that has tremendous meaning to myself, and I'm sure you've heard it in some shape or form in your adult life.
I love this poem and what it is about. It gives me a solid reminder about perseverance and resiliency in life. My problems are only minuscule. I have learned through my adaptation and repetition of this poem to welcome challenges and setbacks. These difficulties that may arise are merely challenges, an opportunity to overcome and show myself and others just how powerful and determined I am to be great. (Great is a loose term and tune in tomorrow for Wednesday Word on "Greatness".)
Take a look at this poem. Take a minute to break it down line by line. What are your initial feelings? What do you take from it? Who will you become after reading it?
Invictus
By William 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 or 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.
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