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