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where i'm from

December 24, 2019
By katiekliu BRONZE, Irvine, California
katiekliu BRONZE, Irvine, California
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where i’m from

the streets smell like sun-drowned petrichor,

     the moon is always half-full

and the sky half-empty, yet 


where i’m from 

we smile at ourselves only 

     you’re the other other other

and no one else cares, yet 


where i’m from?


i am from neither china nor america, yet

i love like a dragon 

     too much too fast too terrifying to last

yet

i am not extinct.


The author's comments:

I wrote this poem based on the struggles I sometimes feel about finding a homeland to identify with and call myself a part of, and how I'm not alone in that struggle.


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