Where I Come From

I am from a balance beam from the chunky dell computers from the smell of a freshly cleaned hospital. I come from several flights of stairs long dark hallways windows with heavy curtains and grills. I am from the extra bit of chocolate milk I drank for a year from the cosy fireplace in the corner of the living room I am from giant glass windows and the bright orange rope I used to swing across my pool. Riding my bike in the pouring rain uphill sitting in a hot Jacuzzi tub that’s where I come from too I come from the not-too-busy beach outside our house in Brazil the beach where my mum and I went nearly every day. I come from “Simon Says” From and Pictionary and Hide n Seek and Little Bear that would come on TV from Monday to Wednesday I am from the barbie dolls that I played with, painted and destroyed. from falling on my butt while skiing and falling on my butt off a horse and falling on my butt just casually walking I come from “break a leg!” and it literally happens and “do something useful with your life!” I am from curling up in blankets during a thunderstorm passing notes under the table and snow cones on hot days I come from screaming on the Great Wall of China And from walking on squeaky floorboards. I even come from the disgusting puke yellow armchair I am from the blue box locked in my cupboard full of all of these memories that I come from I am from the contents of that locked blue box. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This is a poem of my identity and I think anybody's identity is worth fighting for. Nobody should be ashamed of who they are and everyone has the right to their identity. Identities are worth fighting for because it's one of the only things that you will always have and your identity defines who you are. Stereotypes and Traditions often threaten people's identity by setting a different expectation from who they actually are. These types of things challenge them and ask people to become someone they aren't. This is where we have to fight for our identities.