Inspiration

I'm not a guy that is into literature as most of the time I would have trouble understanding what I read in poems or writings of similar kind. However, one has been stuck in my mind, after watching the movie "Invictus", which is based on the true story of Nelson Mandela, the poem interest me to a great deal. Maybe even more after hearing Morgan Freeman reciting it.

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.