Where I'm From, an Original Poem

Where I’m From

I am from the spotlight,

from song lyrics and broadway.

I am from my obsession with One Direction

and their music that I connect with.

I am from the open fields and kiwi’s.

National anthems that speak the beauty of

         the country.

I am from 1 school just 3 different campuses

           that I can all call home.

I am from barbie dolls and

numerous numbers of skirts and dresses.

Walking down the stairs all dressed up,

pretending it was a fashion shows where I was the star.

I’d do this for hours with my friends.

I am from the baby blanket that was my company whilst I dreamt at night,

a old sarong and a stuffed monkey,

that I still sleep with every night.

They hold the memories of my childhood,

and the childhood i'm still living.

The memories that I sometimes forget because of the new ones

I gain every single day.

I am from horsey rides, piggy backs,

and the times spend riding shoulders.

I am from the artist, the principle, and the caregiver.

I am from beliefs and values that stay with me in all that I do.

I am from the blisters, bruises and scars representing

hard work, commitment, pain and strength.

the same blisters that remind me to keep going,

that remind me to work hard for what I want.

I am from the mental scar that reminds me of the day

where the truth was revealed, and the demon inside of him was uncovered.

I am from the replay of that day.

It haunts me like a shadow sometimes.

but it keeps me going.

I am from that memory that tell me to keep going

and that not everything is what it seems.

I am from a place where nothing is as bad as it seems.

I am from the constant belief that everything happens for a reason.

Good or bad, it happened for a reason.

I am from those time when you’d think the whole world

was against you and you had no way out.

Then I remembered all the amazing things in life

and how much people loved me and how much I loved them and life.

I am from love and lost.

Win some lose some.

I was from pink and now i'm from purple.

Both represent different things that are within me

and what I love doing.

I am from a loud, free, active, bouncy, upbeat, complicated, painful, amazing, fabulous

life and thats just my world and my life.

And it’s everything about me and my past

that makes me who I am and where I’m from.

I wrote this poem about myself and where I come from. It was inspired by the original “Where I’m From’ poem by George Ella Lyon. This poem is really about my life and the memories and experiences I have had over the years. It mostly focuses on what I did as a child and the games and experiences I had. What I did is I didn’t want to hide everything in the poem because otherwise the poem would make no sense if it didn’t have any clues as to the meaning. So I just wrote out the truth. But in some parts where it gets more personal and the parts that were a big part of my life, I was more protective over it. I used metaphors and link what I was trying to say to other things to say what I wanted without showing too much. Throughout the poem I share things that have happened over to me over the ears and the things that I believe in.