Godzilla1011

Another good book recommendation: 
          	
          	Beloved by Toni Morrison
          	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel) 
          	
          	Warning: It gets pretty graphic and weird in the book. Morrison does not pull punches.

Godzilla1011

Invictus by William Ernest Henley 
          https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/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.