Portfolio Piece: Personal Expressive-Literary Writing: Senior Year High School

25 March 2010

Where I’m From

I am from a divorced family,
from Mom’s and Dad’s.
A house in Latonia -yard work, a dog, it is my only home
An apartment in Florence
first floor, last building
where most of my memories lie as if they had just occurred

I’m from many schools,
Latonia Elementary, to Holy Cross, to Covington Latin, to Holmes,
the Catholics
and the Public,
Religion class and Evolution in Biology
“Hail Mary full of grace”
to not saying “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance

I am from chickens and hermit crabs,
emus and a pig.
animals in the backyard and in the house,
always a mess around.

I am from a junior class,
friends and foes.
long nights of homework and stress,
nights of procrastination and laziness,
never hurts to wait until morning.

In my mind are my childhood memories
full of life and experience,
people long gone
always to be remembered.
I am from those times in life
where bad is followed by something good.