Invictus – Get it in Your Soul, Nelson Mandela
There is a movie by the name of Invictus, it is about Nelson Mandela and their Rugby team. In the movie Nelson Mandela refers to this Invictus poem and how it is what kept him going through the 27 years of prison. It is powerful and a great poem to take the time and make part of our lives.
Here is the text of the poem:
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 (18491903)
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:11 pm
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February 23rd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for the comment
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Thanks for sharing that very important reminder. The human spirit is stronger that we realize, we just do not reach to the depths of our essence to experience it often enough.
Peace…
Kathy Sammons
February 26th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
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March 23rd, 2010 at 5:58 am
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