Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 109

Welcome to Old Shanghai
St. Margaret's Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School
(Secondary Section), Cheung, Jacqueline – 13
Behind its tall gates and walls
Are stories that will shock you all
Pirates, corruption and lies
Bodies and secrets buried inside.
Welcome to the old Shanghai
Where citizens starve needlessly and die
A place so cruel, no one survives
A place where even their soldiers run and hide.
Look at this place of pride
Now look back to when governors cowers behind
The lies and schemes that they have made
While their people suffer Pirate raids.