Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 111

Walls
St. Margaret's Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School
(Secondary Section), Ho, Sam - 13
Dark stone walls on the perimeter
guarding men within.
Pirates at the base
finding a way to get in.
People separated by walls,
walls are separated by men.
Buildings grow like grass
men live out their lives in them.
An army at the base.
In the city, the army arrives.
People once safe in buildings
now running for their lives.
Bombs at the base
Debris filled the sky.
Workers grew up inside the walls,
hoping for a new Shanghai.
People walk on streets
the city's always alive.
They live above the ruins
of the walls of old Shanghai.