Where I'm From | Kassie J. Runyan

Kassie J. Runyan

June 2, 2026 / 28:37/E40

Where I'm From #39

By Kassie J. Runyan

Inspired by George Ella Lyon

I am from a child’s dream

Formed of stars and sheep

I am from yesterday’s home

Always changing, painting patterns on the wall,

And smelling like lavender

I am from the dirt in the ground

As it runs through my fingers

And I imagine what it will grow

I am from music being sung in every room

From the lips of my mother and father

I am formed by dancing in the living room

And dreaming through the words of the storybooks

From the whisper that I can be who I was meant to be

And create my own future

I am from a realist and a dreamer,

Given a foot in both worlds

I am from gypsies living under the stars

And the worn hands of farmers far from home

I am from names written in worn out letters

On pages cut from old newspapers

And hidden in a record player

That travels from home to home

I am from a line on a tree

That grew for years

Each leaf impacting the life I would dream

All those years ago

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Alyson is an award winning screenwriter and essayist.