I am from me

For my creative writing class, our first in-class assignment was to write a "I am from" poem. My teacher read us several examples that blew my mind away with their complexity and thought. Then she said to take the next seventeen minutes and write one of our own. Here's what I wrote:

I am from myself, in myself
I am two letters, three, seven
Where is but one answer, but yet two
I could say Virginia, born on an old Naval Base
I could say North Carolina, a town between here and the sea
And a third is here, but where is one question
Who I am from is easy: my parents,
Their parents, and theirs before them
Interesting Patrias like...America, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Corsica
Names made of letters a world wide
What I am from is hard: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur
Love, joy, togetherness, family
A collection of books spanning Austen to Rowling
Writing, drawing, singing, painting, learning, speaking
A class before this one
A day before today
The moment before now; now too
All this I am from, and still so much more
I am from movies with puppets, Judy Garland, Johnny Depp
I am from a room with no walls, only posters and color
I am from the dust of before, of life lived long ago,
I am from collecting eggs, feeding chickens, hungry goats, cats, dogs, fish
I am from fear, desperation, panic, gloom
I am from courage, calm and light
All this I am from, and one thing is constant:
I am.

Not my best, you can see. It doesn't even rhyme! Hopefully my next work will be better.