My Sanity

By: Ramya Chilappa

There is a little place in my mind…

that is my favorite place…

in the whole world.

It is my creativity.

My imagination.

There I escape to other lands.

To other worlds and kingdoms.

I become anything I like.

Anyone I like.

This place writes my stories.

This place takes me away…

from the chaos in the rest of me.

Friends, school, boy troubles…

Appearance, cliques, and clothes.

I can forget them all,

if only for a little while.

This place saves me,

from the constant, clanging headache…

that is the world.

This little place in my mind?

It’s the only thing keeping me sane.