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underdogs MAG
June 28, 2021
theirs is not the quick fuse
of a white father teaching his son
to fight back
(Between the eyes is where it hurts most)
but a slow burn,
the crackling roll of a wildfire.
their feet grew roots
in a land that rejected them
they won the war of words
and have the scars to show for it
their hair, dark as midnight,
burns a trail through the crowd.
© Mark A., Phoenix, AZ
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Jemay Leow is a 14-year-old queer dreamer. They are the grand prize winner of the Metropolitan Library's Youth Poetry Contest, and they have been a writing editor for their school yearbook for 2 years now. They enjoy jazz, shag carpet, and finding someone who will love them for who they are.