A FEMALE OAK TREE She's an oak tree Stronger then any man I've ever seen She's real woman So brave Not afraid to love And won't frighten you by insulting you She will respect and understand you You battle the war of women's rights A war you never volunteered for Just trying to be yourself You've been through it all Did not fall You stand tall and strong Ready to fight some more Yet so softly you hug me I don't mind being your little bear Your arms are like a home A place safe from harm Your kiss is soft and warm Food to a bleeding heart Someday we will meet again In a better place At a better time You can tell me all about it then I'm listening Hoping the best for you Until we meet again By: Roger Harkness
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This was the third woman I fell in love with in Antarctica during my second austral summer in 1987.? After my awakening when I learned to love myself. It was a powerful love.? It was during a party.? This chief would get drunk and hug on all the women just so he could get a feel and I was so embarrassed watching this.? Last he was hugging on her.? So I told her I was sorry that some men act that way and she said she didn?t mind.? She was proud that women her age and what she called a spare tire, could still attract men.? She was a bit older than me I must admit.? But that answer impressed me.? So we began to talk and she told me how she had been aboard a tender out at sea in a storm and we laughed as we talked about walking on the bulkheads (walls) as the ship turned sideways and I was in love, because she was in love with the sea just like me.? That?s something I?m going to have to explain some day.? She had been the third person in other relationships and really enjoyed it, and understood where I was coming from.? Though I hardly knew her it was like I knew her all her life and it seemed like she knew me too.? It was powerful.
She was the Fire Chief of the McMurdo Station Fire House and as the only women in the Fire House, she would be wintering over after I went home, I was just a part of the summer support crew.
She invited me to the Fire House and I would watch a movie with her, then she would see me to the door before I left and give me a kiss, so soft and gentle I would melt, it was like medicine to a broken heart and I would visit the Fire House about three times a week for the rest of that summer just to watch a movie with her just so I could have that kiss.
Even after I left her there for the winter, it seemed like I could communicate to her in my mind.