2025/Jada-

I’m packing up my memories in a suitcase

There’s a guy in orange

An ace of hearts

A fortune-telling water bottle

And a trip to summerland

A book of poems and paint

With echoes of laughter on the pages

Three school dances and a mango duck

The taste of burger king hershey milkshakes

I won’t forget a single one

Not the endless rounds of speed or the selfies in bathrooms

Not Wednesday night dinners or watching Aladdin

Not the houses that were my other homes

Not my friends who are going or gone

Some to California, Arizona, Washington

But they’ll stay in my heart

Only one and a half years in Japan

And I already have a suitcase full of memories