I Am One Feisty Courageous Woman

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I am one feisty courageous woman, let me tell you.

I wonder where I am going even when I’m hell bent

            For leather on my way.

I hear my roadmap on the wind, in the sway of cedar branches.

I see the way before me and set my feet.

I want time to bend to my desires; I want to bend to time.

I am one feisty courageous woman, let me tell you.

I pretend that I am the wind, the tree, the stone and I am.

I feel the earth’s spin, the motion of the stars, silent.

I touch your center even as you touch mine, and you, enigmatic world,

            Become my lover.

I worry that your love might spirit me into madness, yet,

I cry in the night wanting to fly beyond every boundary of reason.

I am one feisty courageous woman, let me tell you.

I understand my limitations—

            They are the same as yours.

I say a thing and it is so.

I dream new worlds into being.

I try on all my selves and they fit.

I hope it is enough to be.

I am one feisty courageous woman, let me tell you.

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