Winner of the 2015 Year 8 Leonardo Poetry Prize

The winner of the 2015 Year 8 Leonardo Poetry Prize is Alice Marchant.

The Green-Eyed Monster

She walked past me

Money in her bag

Food in her stomach

I wished I was her

And she kept walking

In her designer shoes

Until she reached her warm house

I wished I was her

I sat by the road

Catching coins in my hat

Rummaging for food scraps

I wished I was her

A monster grew on my back

Green eyes

Bright as emeralds

I wished I was her

It weighed me down

Wherever I went

Wherever I saw her

I wished I was her

And I wished

And I wished

And I wished

I wished I was her.