The question he asked is “Where are you from?”

But I have no idea who I have become

I sit here with no thoughts coming to my head

About where I’m from, what I’ve done, or the life that I’ve led

After 14 years of living I don’t have a clue

What I’ve been in my life, or what I can do

Where I live is St. Paul but that’s not where I’m from

Where I’m from is inside of me, not from where I come

My life isn’t built on material things

It’s all built on love, and all that it brings

So I don’t have a wish list that I wanna show you

I guess what I’m made of is about what I’ve been through

It’s about the experiences I’ve had with a friend

Those amazing memories that never will end

Those inside jokes we share and we’ve said

Like Briana’s sock jokes and Veronica’s “STUPIDHEAD!”

I try to hold on to every little moment

Or it’ll pass me by and I’ll wonder when it went

‘Cause small things for us could be another’s all,

Just bein’ there for them to catch ‘em when they fall

The friends I’m talkin’ ‘bout you can’t get at Wal-Mart

You can’t buy ‘em you get ‘em by love from the heart

Maybe not all my friends and I will last together

But the footprints they leave on our hearts are forever

I’m only a freshman there’s a lot I donno yet

There’s a lot of life lessons that I haven’t met

I can’t answer exactly where I’m from

But I know it’s those experiences from which I’ve come

I know it’s those people who’ve showed me love

I know it’s those things that come from above

So where I’m from shows who I am to you

And who I am makes what I do

But life isn’t measured by how good I live

Life is measured by the love I give

-AMI D. ANDERSON