Where I'm From

I am from the stage

Music, lights, curtins, applause

The cheering, laughter, inside moments

The block I went trick or treating on every year

The playground around the corner

Where I wrote my first poem

I am from the pages

The stories found deep within the cover

Mysteries hidden in the attic, romance waltzing through the ballroom

Fantasy on a shelf in the library

The smile that awakes with me in the morning

A force field, keeping away all evil

A warm light, shining on my friends

I’m from the writing

Letters from the heart 

A flowing river of verbs and adjectives, spilling from my mouth

A waterfall, splashing on the pages far below

I am from the languages

Born to english

Adopted by spanish and now hebrew

The culture seeping into me 

Filling my insides, a feeling of home

I am from the trees

Shady afternoons, a book in hand

The water

To which I take to like a fish

The air

I feel under my wings as I soar, high above all my troubles

The fire

A burning flame, deep inside, that keeps me going

The magic of all combined

I am from the earth, please don't take her away