Great Poem

Success

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 the opposition for it
 
,If you'll simply go after the 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
With the help of GOD
You will get it

Berton Braley