Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 - 2017 | Page 399

I went back to the past! Why I am here, what is that thing that I need to be completed? When I turned around, the granny disappeared! I looked around, but what I see is that on the ground there is a wooden box. I opened it and it consist of a piece of paper with a letter P and when I was still thinking what was that, a red small bird landed on my shoulder and it started to speak, “I will be your companion for the rest of your journey” After saying that, I was taken to another place which is that a unique place for all shanghai people --- the longtang, which has are neighborhood lanes populated by lilongs housings. This place have beautiful decoration and architecture before. But now it is very crowded and very dirty saw many patients waiting to get medical treatment in which I feel sorry for them because they are very poor and cannot buy food for themselves to eat. I even see children fighting for food and clothes. I feel distressed for them so I asked The Baby Red bird if he can make some food for them. The red bird looked at me while smiling, nodded his head and all the children in these village have enough food for themselves and their family. Then red baby bird chirped reminding me that something is right beside my feet. I took a look, it is another box! I opened it, this time the paper had the letter E and another bird, which is orange also landed on my shoulder saying that “ I will be our companion for the rest of your journey” I was then zoomed to another place. It is the most horrible thing I have ever seen! A pile of dead bodies stacked up together like a mountain! Beside that tall mountain, I saw a little girl crying hysterically shouting “Give me back my mama and papa!!!!” My heart was breaking, I went up and hugged the little girl and let her cry. I feel so sorry for her but I know I can’t resurrect the dead, so I asked orange baby bird to give her a couple to adopt her and hope that she can forgot the past and continue to live happily. And so, the couple took her away and I prayed for the little girl in my heart. Orange baby bird chirped just like what red baby bird had done. I picked up the box which always appear by my feet and this time the paper consist of two letters “A and C”. Baby Yell ow bird and baby Green bird came and I was zoomed to another place, which is the army camp. In here I saw many soldiers feeling sorry for what they have done to the citizens of Shanghai. When I saw this I felt angry but sorry at the same time because I believe that the soldiers wouldn’t had wanted to hurt the citizens because they had done nothing wrong and why did they need to suffer? These are government business. Why did the citizens need to burden the pain and feeling so helpless? So I ask both Yellow and Green Baby Bird to combine their power and asked God to wash away their sin and to feel not such a big burden for themselves. They both chirped together and while Blue and purple baby bird need some time to fly onto my shoulder. I bent down and picked up the box. This time it consisted of the letter E again. Then I group all that alphabets together “P-E-A-C-E …. PEACE! Yes, in my world or in this world, we need peace, nowadays the society have too much discriminations and such a disparity of wealth and the poor, among many other problems ! Yes, LOVE AND PEACE is the formula to cure everyone’s heart.” And suddenly I was zoomed back home and all the 6 baby birds disappear and the last bird, PHOENIX came and I made my last wish which is “to establish a charity organization and to help the poor!” I shouted proudly… smiling to myself understanding what needed to complete is now completed, that is… my heart.