Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 116

The Opium War
St. Margaret's Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School
(Secondary Section), Mak , Chloe - 13
Waves Crash,
Lightning booms,
Illuminating the boat gliding to doom.
Carrying the drugs,
The citizens wait with a buzz,
To get their hands on the goods.
Everyone’s addicted,
And We awaited,
The chance to break the trade.
A letter was sent,
Pleading the stop of the dispense,
although the Queen did not agree,
We transpired and
head to the sea.
The boats are docked,
They are deadlocked.
The ambush succeeded,
They conceded.
Lime and salt, to burn,
Mixed with hope and concern,
Of the disciplined rest,
To rid the drugs others were obsessed.
We started a war and we fell.
Soldiers crumbled and lost ones dwell,
But some matters have yet to rest.
The second time Britain came,
Allies and foreign attain.
We fell once again,
To Queen Elizabeth I’s reign.
Now the dust has settled,
China’s empire has regrown.