The call me "Tahina", a Malagasy word meaning "to be protected" or "blessed",
I am also being the given name of Anne-Tahina Metz, after the family that found me in 2008

My home is Madagascar
The only piece of Earth from that survived from the lost continent Lemuria

I am related to Africa, India, Srilanka, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia in a way before we drifted over millions of years.

I grow 59 ft tall and Live a 50 years before I fall
I am unique
With fifty summers and winter
But with only one Spring and Fall

I bloom once as best as I can
and with all the nutrients I saved
I give my full on this day
The day of my dream and purpose

They say I choose to die;
The truth is that all of us die to live.

They want to protect me, supposedly endangered;

Who is not?