Defeat - Kahlil Gibran (A Life Changing Poem for Dark Times)

Read by Shane Morris - Kahlil Gibran was the key figure in a Romantic movement that transformed Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century. - Full Poem: Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness; You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs, And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory. Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance, Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot And not to be trapped by withering laurels. And in you I have found aloneness And the joy of being shunned and scorned.