Survivor

Call her names
and she flings them back
her words much sharper
more biting
than yours

Insult her
and she sneers
confident that no other
can judge her
can know her true being

Attack her
and she retaliates
hitting you much harder
than you struck her
to begin with

Try to break her
and she holds firm
laughing in dark amusement
at the very thought
that you could destroy her

Hurt her
and she weathers it all
she survives anything
you could give her...
if embittered.