Fergus McMullan — Highly commended (equal), Year 11 Uniform

Uniform

In this school we all wear blue. We have no uniform, no dress code, So every day they line us up to list our names, but to them it’s all the same: There’s no one there. Who could stand to stay? We’ve all drifted off to thoughts on what to wear, But in this school we all wear blue. We wear the blue of deep seas on rough nights, The blue of a broken robin egg. We wear the blue of shattered dreams, The blue that rests beyond your eyes. At this school we all wear blue. So feign a smile and crack a joke, Look alive, no one cares what you wear, Because at this school we all wear blue on the inside.

— Fergus McMullan, St Kevin’s College