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After the War
February 27, 2019
Going to school, filled with dread,
Knowing what was coming.
I switched schools
Three times
But they were everywhere.
Waiting.
Waiting for me in the bathrooms
At my locker
Outside of my class.
Waiting.
Waiting to punch me
Pull my hair
Kick me down
Call me “Jap.”
And I thought it would never end.
Yet
One day, he came.
Dark brown eyes, darker brown hair
He yelled at them.
And I thought
Maybe people aren’t so bad after all.
© Cassandra Z., Sunnyvale, CA
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Even years after World War II had ended, the Japanese-Americans were
still discriminated against. One speaker spoke of her brother and how
he was bullied and called “Jap” at every school he attended, often
coming home with bruises and black eyes. One day, someone stood up
for him, and the bullying stopped. This story moved me, and I decided
to write a poem from the perspective of the brother.