I Am Sturdy
Poet: Jade Terriss Talamo, Age 8

I am sturdy.

I am sturdy as a mountain,

as vast and deep as an ocean,

as powerful as the pull of gravity.

And yet, the fire within me

does not strike and

yet I do not help, I just sit

with no power against what is

but I do have power against what lays ahead

and so do you.