No More Insecurities

Pink and Blue | by Jasmine Kareem-Robinson | digital art

No More Insecurities Today by Emerson Delfin

Today I will

write a poem

about a 17-year-old girl going to the gym.

It will not be a metaphor for anorexia.

It will not be an allegory

for pushing the pedophiles away.

But rather about the

back & forth of her ponytail

as she dances in between sets lifting weights

heavier than most of the arrogant ¨gym bros.¨

But rather about her newfound confidence

flexing for herself, not the

imbeciles who want weak women

for their own sad self-conscious strength 

to reassure their douchebag selves.

But rather about the way,

she works out in pink and purple

sports bras to show off her killer abs.

But rather the way she counts

her reps as she squats, curls, and kills.

How the slam of the bar to 

the rack sounds

like all the women in the room are

giving her a round of applause.