Friends Without Faces
A Bag Of Tools
Invictus
We sit and we type,
 we stare at our screens
We all have to wonder,
what this possibly means.
With our mouse we roam,
through the rooms in a maze
Looking for something or someone
as we sit in a daze.

We chat with each other,
we type all our woes
Small groups we do form,
and gang up on our foes.

We wait for somebody,
to type out our name
We want recognition,
and it is always the same.

We give kisses and hugs,
and sometimes flirt
In cyberlife we chat deeply,
and reveal why we hurt.
We do form friendships -
but - why we don't know
Yet some of these friendships,
will flourish and grow.

Why is it on screen,
we can be so bold
Telling our secrets,
that have never been told?
Why is it we share,
the thoughts in our mind
With those we can't see,
as though we were blind?

The answer is simple,
it is as clear as a bell.
We are living our lives,
and need someone to tell.

Not always heard offline,
yet tell someone we must
So we turn to the 'puter,
and to those we can trust.

Even though it is crazy,
the truth still remains
We are Friends Without Faces,
and odd little names.

R. L. Sharpe

Isn't it strange
how princes and kings,

and clowns that caper
in sawdust rings,
and ordinary people
like you and me,

are builders for eternity?

Each is given a list of rules;
a shapeless mass;
a bag of tools.

And each must fashion,
ere life is flown,

A stumbling block,
or a Stepping-Stone
.

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*** Success (You'll Get It) ***

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace
and your sleep for it

If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things
tawdry and cheap for it

If life seems all empty
and useless without it
And all that you scheme
and you dream is about it,

If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it, Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of
God or man for it,

If you'll simply go after
that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,

If neither cold poverty,
famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from
the thing that you want,

If dogged and grim
you besiege and beset it,
You'll get it!

Published in:
Things as they are, 1916

William Ernest Henley 1849-1903

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 cluth 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.
























A special thank you to
a chat acquaintance known as
Nelson for his inspired photograph.
Page created 5/15/05
It's a window into my soul.




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