force of nature

[Just some thoughts.]

I like to dance when I feel like this--
to pull at my muscles like they're a dogsled team, running horses,
that feel exactly like I do--
a force of nature. When the trees
strain at their roots in the wind
and the water rises up to meet the air,
when aerial sun battles grounded ice,
the dirt keeps in the force of a thousand hurricanes below,
standing triumphant against molten counterpart and simmering,
burning, holding it back for
the life that rests upon it.