my brother could never
chase me through the
garden because he
failed to bloom
days flapped through
my hair
as the dirt
decided its day to sail
was when we pit
ourselves against
each other as if
god didn't mold us all with
the same hands
Sejal Akerkar is a woman of color and a junior at Sammamish high school. Born in New York City and after two pit stops in Philadelphia and India, sejal has finally made her home in Bellevue, Washington. She is the proud leadership ambassador of the Seattle youth poet laurette cohort at Seattle Arts and Lectures. She has a love for personification of inanimate species, but also indulges into the stillness of time. Her poems circle around the idea of reformation and giving back to society.