ya-got-ta-wanna...author unknown

Found this sah-weet poem in an old journal of mine...I don't know who it's by, and the name I have on it is 'ya-got-ta-wanna'...I hope that's really what it's called. Enjoy!

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 the desire of it

Makes you mad enough never to tire of it

Makes you hold all things tawdry and cheap for it

Life seems all empty and useless without it

And all that you scheme

and dream

Is about it

If gladly you'll sweat for it

fret for it

plan for it

Lose all your terror of devils and men 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, famish or gaunt

Nor sickness nor pain

of body or brain

Can keep you away from the thing that you want

If dogged and grim and beseech and beset

You'll get it.  You'll get it. -Author Unknown