martes, 8 de febrero de 2011

Nelson Mandela is responding well to his treatment

According to ABS.CBN News, the 'Former South African president Nelson Mandela is doing well and responding to treatment at his home a week after his release from hospital, the government said Thursday citing doctors."The latest information we have is that former president Nelson Mandela is doing well. The team of doctors taking care of him say he is responding to treatment," Collins Chabane, minister for the presidency, told reporters. The 92-year-old anti-apartheid hero is receiving home-based care after being discharged from hospital last Friday, following treatment for an acute respiratory infection.
Officials said he was in stable condition after his release, but he continues to receive close monitoring and round-the-clock care from a team of specialists'.

I'm sure we are all with Mandela, wishing him the best. Here you have the famous poem which helped him to survive his long imprisonment. 

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.

INVICTUS

Más allá de la noche que me cubre
negra como el abismo insondable,
doy gracias a los dioses que pudieran existir
por mi alma invicta.
En las azarosas garras de las circunstancias
nunca me he lamentado ni he pestañeado.
Sometido a los golpes del destino
mi cabeza está ensangrentada, pero erguida.
Más allá de este lugar de cólera y lágrimas
donde yace el Horror de la Sombra,
la amenaza de los años
me encuentra, y me encontrará, sin miedo.
No importa cuán estrecho sea el portal,
cuán cargada de castigos la sentencia,
soy el amo de mi destino:
soy el capitán de mi alma.

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