Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 119

The Secret of Old Shanghai
St. Margaret's Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School
Secondary Section), Ng, Tiffany – 13
The secret of Old Shanghai is this -
You will never know what happened behind the wall.
You will never know what happened outside.
And then you realize.
You will always feel trapped inside.
Back to those terrible days.
People were all afraid.
Pirates came to fight.
Everyone wanted to escape.
Come and see this city.
It is all a pity.
See soldiers come to fight.
Everyone felt scared.
The pirates kept attacking us,
Soldiers hands were full of blood.
The only wish you had,
was to make war stop.