You can find my heart in the middle of the sea

Not in the body meant for me

You can find my soul deep within the trunk of a tree

Because the roots are growing inside me

You can find my mind amongst the wildfire that can engulf entire towns

Because my ideas create the loudest sounds

You can find my voice in the incessant pounding of thunder

Because the roar of my breathe could tear you asunder

You can find me surrounded by a cyclone

Because the raw power of nature is all I’ve ever known

You won’t find me hunched in a dark corner shrinking myself

Because my body is not small enough to contain on a shelf

I belong to no one

Because my ferocity will not be silenced

You cannot stake a claim over my body

Because you can’t own something that was never yours

You cannot tear me down

Like the mighty sequoia, I will grow again

You cannot have me because I am a force of nature

Too powerful for you

Do not call me weak because I am a woman

I was raised by nature herself