You broke the faith, and strangely, weakly, slipped apart. - June 2012
You gave in⎯you, the proud of heart, unbowed of heart!
the winter soldier
God knows 'twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath, Where hushed awakenings are dear... But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.