Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Military Commander and Leader

. . .

Sulky and sullen we often are,

Defaced, unhappy, all joy we bar.

We live as though promised infinite tomorrows,

Till reminded of death and allied sorrows.

The world we say is a putrid cesspool,

Built of, and by, and for the cruel.

We drown within the squalid waters,

Floundering for air, our spirit totters.

In this struggle our resolve is tested,

Resolve we must, to not be bested.

Broken spirits are frightful things.

Yet mended, they rise on Phoenix wings.

When life turns hostile, when you fall off the horse,

Dust off the dust and go show life who’s the boss!

. . .

Granville D. Austin