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.


William Ernest Henley
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Faint Light

The faint lights make me stare
Lost love can never be bound
Everything is gone, now I am bare

I have nothing left for my care.
Just leave me on this uneven ground
The faint lights make me stare

I am left in a world with no air
In this world I feel no sound
Everything is gone, now I am bare

Should I go back? I do not dare
In this life I am only a background
The faint lights make me stare

I know I'm lost but I don't know where
my last dying wish is to be found
Everything is gone, now I am bare

I realize life isn't fair
If you haven't guessed yet, I have drowned
The faint lights make me stare
Everything is gone, now I am bare

Jerick Ibias

A Brief Discourse on Related Dynamics In Inner-work Poetry

This is the process,
The excess, on into
The Recess, the pit
The bad-ass abyss,
Where the things you thought
You killed all got wings
And stings, like wasps,
And you remember
You better remember
That childhood day
When you got stupid
And took a fig tree stick
To that gray paper nest
Under the cobwebbed eave
Then screamed like a girl
For a block and a half
Because they ain't bees
And they don't die
And they don't give a fuck
About you being stupid.

Martin Williams