Where I'm From Poetry Contest Second Prize Winner

By Heath Johnston

The ideal beau look of a city

Beauty from the Outset visitor

Landmarks within each kilometer

Yet to the insider, grim and gritty

Who cares of skyscrapers tall

The new years Lightning ball

Who cares of the city of Dallas

When the citizens are filled inwardly malice

My friends and brothers, lovingly close

Left in coffins from the streetly ghost

Gangs, violence, drugs and alcohol

Vices from few, affecting the all

Not to mention the horrendous human sort of traffick

I do not intend to be mindlessly graphic

These are the results and the designs of my city

Do not lose the facts within the publicity

I’m thankful for the opportunities that came

But I cannot help feeling nothing but shame

For the city to whence I once called home

The brutality masked by panels of chrome

Where I came from, hardly means anything now

My friends here are more than the city could allow

From where I was, to where I go, to me they are both the same

I am not the old person from whence I once came

So one may ask me, where are you from?

I am from whom I will become

Nothing past, nothing present

Forgetful growing adolescent

I am here, I am now, here to stay, and here to grow

So much more than the city, time will show

Hopeful for the future where I set my roots

In hopes of reaping those wondrous fruits

I have sprung forth on a new adventure

Far better than I could possibly conjecture

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