UNDEFEATED

My head may be bloody but it is unbowed
My sight may be lost but my vision isn’t altered

My strength may be gone but my spirit is willing
My legs may be weak but on my knees I stand firm praying

Amidst life’s uncertainties I have this undivided confidence
“I am undefeated”, and here is the undisputable evidence

I am undefeated, not because I have never lost
I am undefeated because each time I lose I keep fighting at all cost

When my head becomes too bruised to wear the crown
When my body becomes too wounded to wear the decorated gown

I listen to the inner voice to hear your words unspoken
“The battle is mine and I’m giving you the victory as a token”

Though to me, fear is not a stranger
Yet, with courage I meet every danger

My heart is sealed with this ultimate determination
To remain undefeated until I reach my destination.

-Amberacious poems© (2013)
Inspired by "Invictus" William Ernest Henley

http://amberacious./2013/10/10/394/

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