2025/Eliana -30925

I am from a republic in Central Europe

From a place with deer and you can hear birds.

I am from the great power under the strong economy

It smelled like good air.

I am from a black, red and, white flag

Whose dandelions I remember

as if they were my own

I am from coffee and hot dogs

From Jen and Duke.

I am from the beaches

And my family

From charades and Clue

I am from the busy kitchen

with a recipe

And ten creations I can make myself.

I’m from volleyball and cooking,

not doing homework and sitting on my couch

From the best friend lost to the past

To the seeds used to keep a little garden.

Under my bed was a purple drink spilling under my bed

A short feeling of sadness to losing people

To drift beneath my dreams.

I am from those moments -

Meeting my family before I turned 10

I am a leaf growing from the family tree.

- Inspired by George Ella Lyon