Strong

I am stronger than the tornado that destroyed my childhood home. I am stronger than the seasons that passed me on the road to nowhere. I am stronger than the heartbreak that often crept into my life. I am as strong as steel, I am as stolid as stone. I have seen it all, and done it all, and soon death may take my soul. But it will never defeat me. I will be a part of the sun and the rain, within the heartbeat of the forest, in the pulse of the wildest river. I will soar with the eagle and the hawk. Where the deer roams, I yet will be. I glow in the coals of the winter hearth. I flash in the lightning of summer winds. I am stronger than the mystery of stars.