2025/G.L -

I am from a state full of history and life,

From a island with fish and noodles

And a peninsula split by war.

I am from the land under the DMZ

It tasted like seafood and smelled of poor air quality.

I am from the places full of flying Dandelions,

The Purple events

Whose purpose is to define me and

I remember them as if they were my own.

I am from cold and warm,

From a Spouse and a Colonel.

I am from the bean bag chairs

And the sports fields,

From “Clear the table.” To “Let the dogs out!”

I am from the military with a few more bags to pack

And ten new places to move, where I can go myself.

I'm from McDonald’s and football,

BBQ and Xbox.

From the friends lost in the past places

To the new places used to make me happy.

Under my bed was a pile of spilling random stuff,

Including pictures of my old dogs

To drift beneath my dreams.

I am from those moments -

Where before the moving happened

I am a leaf stuck to the family tree.

- Inspired by George Ella Lyon