A tribute to all the "Elemental Women" I've known throughout the years... |
The Elemental Woman stands tall as the proudest tree Deriving beauty from wisdom as plants derive their life from beneath The Elemental Woman is a noble woman A being of faith and kindness She knows when to follow her own truth Letting it guide her against the current And when to let go, accept and just follow the flow The Elemental Woman is a paragon of generosity And a beacon of diversity Her gifts - patience and knowledge She showers down with glee Upon those who’ll have a listen and try to understand The Elemental Woman is like the shifting sand Scattered about, but always together The Elemental Woman was built to weather She is forged into courage like iron As hard as need be when strength must be seen And a furious storm when one greets her with scorn The Elemental Woman has a strong flame inside Burning more brightly than all the stars in the sky In passion, she is heat Making desire concrete The Elemental Woman reacts with frost when stung By the barbs of careless words in her direction flung She is a swirl of air - laughing, free and breezy Expanding like a patch of earth when she needs to stretch To mold herself like clay To the demands of every day The Elemental Woman is light shone through a prism Unleashing from within, a spectrum of creative vision The Elemental Woman is all around the world In blue jeans or burqas, in high heels or flats Of different creeds and colors, from this nation or that For The Elemental Woman is one vast sea of life Flowing up, as vapor, to one united sky. |