What is it with you guys and rock music? Look to a real poet. This is probably my favorite of all:

William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903

7. Invictus

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.




>My favorite is an excerpt from the Rush song "Marathon"
>
>"You can do a lot in a lifetime
>If you don't burn out too fast
>You can make the most of the distance
>But first you need endurance
>First you've got to last"