Day 10 - The Will To Win

Well, if this isn't a mighty fierce poem, I don't know what is.  Thanks to "Uncle Jay" White for forwarding this. I never would call myself "dogged" or "grim" and I'm not sure I could "beseige and beset" if I tried, but I like the buildup and the happy ending.  Enjoy!

"The Will to Win"
    by Berton Braley

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 and brain
   
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
   
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
   
You'll get it.