"So Alone"

Porscha
Marian Middle School
City of St. Louis, MO

Porscha Marian Middle School St. Louis, Missouri "So Alone" "Poetry on Their Terms, Winners of The 2013 7GP 7th Grade Poetry Contest" is an event and poetry anthology sponsored by The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP). On April 17, 2013, winning poets from 92 schools in 20 counties in 7 states were united in a livestreamed event from the Central Library in the St.

Why?
Why did you have to be taken away?
I thought you’d be here,
For so long, to stay.

What did I do,
To deserve this punishment from you?
Nothing to hold onto,
Nothing to believe in,
No longer can I have,
A single word to send.

In this dark zone,
It feels so wrong.
Never did I think I’d be so alone,
Without the smooth shell of my nice cell phone.