6 May 2012

Fate slew him, but he did not drop;

She felled — he did not fall —

Impaled him on her fiercest stakes —

He neutralized them all.

She stung him, sapped his firm advance,

But, when her worst was done,

And he, unmoved, regarded her,

Acknowledged him a man.

~Emily Dickinson~

DelilahOpuss № I