Where I'm From

We started this year with poems in LA. We studied different poem and wrote one ourselves using the title and based on the poem "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon. Here it is.

Where I'm From

By Rex

Looking at the sky, thinking of where I’m from,

the stars and moon are the same,

but I am a world away from home. 

I am from skyscrapers that reach the sky,

racing with the mountains which surround them,

where beneath is crowded streets with thousands and thousands of different customs of people,

where shops, restaurants and offices are all located,

where busy business by days and nights knits a network all over.

I am from beeps and vrooms and pings.

I am from fast speeds,

of twenty-five-minutes lunches,

and tons of statements an hour.

I am from a school among schools,

where schoolmates were like neighbours.

I am from an estate among estates,

where neighbours were like families.

I am from a flat among flats,

where lived a family which never gave up one another.

I am from a flat,

where lived a dreamer,

who worked with his studies till dinner,

and watched television later.

I am from watching television for quarters, 

while wishing Dad would come home earlier,

just like a dog waiting for its owner.

I am from swimming pools and amusement parks,

from weekly family gatherings with arts, crafts and darts,

which in my mind they’re marked.

I am from the clock which annoyed me in class,

from the clock which frightened me during tests,

from the clock which rushed me at weekends,

from the clock which gave me new chances every morning.

Because I am from stories and experiences of time.

This is where I’m from,

I am from my home,

where the stars and moon are the same.

But home seems a world away.