Crossed The One Lakh Mark In This Blog

Now with that one hit, this blog registers its crossing the one lakh visitors mark. The journey was long, sometimes tough and during those tough and trying times, writing was my only way through those crooked and tiring roads that kept me going. I have not written the best pieces; yet, I believe, this blogging business just got my writing get better than what I started off with and I wish to learn to read and write a lot better in the future. At times I wrote for others and mostly just for myself and have been glad to get the feedbacks, comments and criticisms that helped shape my writing and those that did more in shaping me. Thank you all!

With that, here is a song that is quite important and close to my heart for it helped me in a day when I needed to restore one of the most important relationships in my life. Incidentally this song  also reminds of the journey I had with this blog. At the end of the day, not too heavy cos it just made me strong enough to carry... 

Here is that song for you (the lyrics and the video at the end):

The road is long

With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where

But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there

For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share

And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy he's my brother

He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

- by The Hollies 

Invictus

This is a poem that is said to have kept President Nelson Mandela going during his time in prison. Perhaps the one that helped save a nation at the end.

A beautiful poem that I just adore that I have recorded and am presenting in the form of a video. Most of the clippings were shot around the place where I stay and the voice is a result of an experimentation in my make-shift studio. 

This poem is titled "Invictus" - a short Victorian poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). It was written in 1875 and published in 1888.

Out Of The Night That Covers Me  (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.

- By William Ernest Henley  (1849-1903)