"The Spark"

Michael
Long Middle School
St. Louis City, MO

"The Spark" by Michael Long Middle School City of St. Louis, 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.

As I walk on the sidewalk
And I reach that small park
My brain started drifting
And I felt a small spark
I gazed and I drifted till I swallowed my tongue
I was so restless so stupid and blatantly dumb
To have not of seen what I could have become

So smart I was to not do as I was told
To forget all of this and go run back home
To let go of my dreams
and go home in a dome
Unable to get out all trapped and alone
But I will find this flame
And ignite this small spark
Then I’ll fight off this darkness and light up this park

20 Years later I remember that park
And that flame that ignited this spark
and created all of light
So I made this world happy
And lit up the dark
Until one day the darkness was too much for this spark
So I leave this flame for whoever is next
To take on the darkness and finish my quest