Where I Am From Poem
I am from Assyria
I am from Nineveh
I am from Assur
I am from the snowcapped Mt. Ararat
From the fertile crescent to the Arabian Desert and the Sahara
I am from a place where violence is an everyday thing
I am from a nation whose enemies were flayed
I am from a nation that started as a city state, and rose to an empire
I am from the nation with the first library
I am from the first nation to collectively convert to Christianity
I am from a nation that hunts lions
I am from a nation of kings
From Assur-nasirpal II to Assurbanipal
I am from a nation built on conquest
A nation that sieged Jerusalem
A nation built on warfare
A nation that took over the Egyptian power
I am from a nation of science and technology
The nation that invented the wheel
I am from the first nation to use paved roads
I am from a nation with the first postal service
I am from a nation with many inventions
I am from a nation with power
I am from Assyria