This poem was the third thing I ever posted, over 9 years ago. Thought perhaps time to do an accompanying video. It’s short but powerful and I like to think helpful to anyone who might just need a wee boost or a reminder that we’re all capable of astonishing things and have great powers of recovery.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/upJBc2vqRPnN9HWh9
What you’ll get on here is poetry, old and new. Ramblings, lots of them too.
In time, I’ll get my material on here, but on this occasion, I’ll let the words of Robert Service speak for me.
The Quitter by
Robert Service
When you’re lost in the Wild, and you’re scared as a child,
And Death looks you bang in the eye,
And you’re sore as a boil, it’s according to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and . . . die.
But the Code of a Man says: “Fight all you can,”
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe, oh, it’s easy to blow . . .
It’s the hell-served-for-breakfast that’s hard.
“You’re sick of the game!” Well, now, that’s a shame.
You’re young and you’re brave and you’re bright.
“You’ve had a raw deal!” I know — but don’t squeal,
Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.
It’s the plugging away that will win you the day,
So don’t be a piker, old pard!
Just draw on your grit; it’s so easy to quit:
It’s the keeping-your-chin-up that’s hard.
It’s easy to cry that you’re beaten — and die;
It’s easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hope’s out of sight —
Why, that’s the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling bout,
All broken and beaten and scarred,
Just have one more try — it’s dead easy to die,
It’s the keeping-on-living that’s hard.
