<p>In celebration of World Poetry Day 2021 &nbsp;Recited by Vika Stankovic Original Music by Yann Keerim - Small Steps &nbsp;TMC on poetry &nbsp;IF - Rudyard Kipling &nbsp;If you can keep your head when all about you &nbsp;Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, &nbsp;If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, &nbsp;But make allowance for their doubting too; &nbsp;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, &nbsp;Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, &nbsp;Or being hated, don't give way to hating, &nbsp;And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: &nbsp;If you can dream - and not make dreams your master, &nbsp;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; &nbsp;If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster &nbsp;And treat those two impostors just the same; &nbsp;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken &nbsp;Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, &nbsp;Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, &nbsp;And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: &nbsp;If you can make one heap of all your winnings &nbsp;And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, &nbsp;And lose, and start again at your beginnings &nbsp;And never breathe a word about your loss; &nbsp;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew &nbsp;To serve your turn long after they are gone, &nbsp;And so hold on when there is nothing in you &nbsp;Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" &nbsp;If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, &nbsp;Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, &nbsp;If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, &nbsp;If all men count with you, but none too much; &nbsp;If you can fill the unforgiving minute &nbsp;With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, &nbsp;Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, &nbsp;And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! &nbsp;Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)</p>