Invictus Poem, A Will to Survive Acrylic Print

This wall print has a beautiful image of a tree silhouetted against a dark orange sky with sunlight peeking through the clouds, and the inspirational poem Invictus 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. Invictus is about a will to survive, and was written in 1875 when Henley was in the hospital saving his only remaining leg from being amputated. Invictus has inspired so many, including Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela.