Roller Coaster of Life

Upside Down -- Right Side Up -- Spinning Round and Round --  Highest Peaks -- Lowest Valley -- Standing Totally Still -- Flying Fast -- No Movement at all....



  Hurdling along on a roller coaster in total darkness.  Not knowing when the next curve or loop will be, only certain that something else is coming along the track.  Positive eventually the ride will end.  Hanging on with all our might, praying everything will turn out right.  Needing peace and serenity only Faith can bring.  Seeking answers that may never come.  This highway of life keeps on rolling along.  The ups and the downs, the turns and the twists, they keep on going and going, on and on and on and on.... seems to be winding down, no it's picking up to full speed again.... waiting on this roller coaster ride to end and the peace to begin... looking for the light that signals the end of this dark tunnel is near to allow us to close this chapter and truly start fresh with the next journey on this path of life.

Invictus, written by William Earnest Henley, 1849-1903

William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903

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.