"My Escape" by Claire St. Clare of Assisi School St. Louis County, MO Read the poems of every 2015 winner at www.7gp.org. The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP) is transforming young lives and their classrooms through writing. We provide free school-based poetry contests to every 7th grade student, in every type of school, in every community.

"My Escape"

Claire
St. Clare of Assisi School
St. Louis County, MO

I seek a different world,
found between the covers of a book.

My imagination runs wild,
and I unleash the thoughts that crowd my mind.

Ideas, dreams, aspirations,
they all find a place in the lines of ink.

I allow myself to forget,
flaws, imperfections, who I truly am.

And in that moment,
I feel I can be anybody I want to be.