"I Watch" by Willie Fanning Middle School City of St. Louis, 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.

"I Watch"

Willie
Fanning Middle School
St. Louis City, MO

I watch you from afar,
your trials, pains and scars,
that made you who you are
You reached up and grabbed the stars
I watch,
I feel your personality
I see your dreams.
It’s beyond reality
I watch,
your story set in motion,
like the motor of a car
unaware of your own shadow
I watch,
from afar