My heart is a desert – dry, brittle, and unforgiving my heart is an ocean – windblown at the surface, but silent and deep below my heart is a forest – ever green and alive with sound my heart is a field, swaying in the breeze my heart is a mountain – steep and strewn with boulders and scree my heart is a river, ever-flowing my heart is a lake, taciturn and still my heart is a hurricane, fierce at the edges and gentle in the center my heart is a volcano, explosive and fiery my heart is whatever it needs to be that’s how i know it’s my heart…