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“Where are you from?”

The question sounds simplistic.

We move every one to three years,

Can I have a home?

Am I from Mississippi,

Where I was born?

Am I from Arizona,

where I moved from?

Am I from Italy,

Where I loved the culture,

Where I traveled,

Where I lived my favorite years?

Am I from Nebraska,

Where I started swim,

Where I learn to tie my shoes,

Where I started school?

Am I from Colorado,

Where my parents met,

Where they went to college,

Where I want to go to school?

Should I go farther back?

My family has roots in Ireland,

Or was it Scotland?

Am I just American?

Why can’t I just say one place,

Why can’t it just be easy?

Every time I find a home,

I am moved to another place.

I may not know, where I am from

But I know where home is

Home is where my family is

So that is where I am from.