"Running Shoes"
Bri
Sunrise Elementary School
Jefferson County, MO
"Running Shoes" by Bri Sunrise Elementary School Jefferson County, MO This video was taken at the 2014 7GP 7th Grade Poetry Contest Winner Event in St. Louis, MO on April 16th, 2014. Read the poems of every 2014 winner at www.7gp.org. The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP) is transforming young lives and their classrooms through writing.
Black as night.
Light as day.
Why are you always running away...
From me?
What did I do?
Was it something I said?
What did I do?
Why won’t you stay?
I guess you’re running away...
in those running shoes again.
I hate Nike,
almost as much as I do you right now.
But, I hate you more
for buying those stupid running shoes.