Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 126

A Sad Story of Old Shanghai
St. Margaret's Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School
(Secondary Section), To, Mei - 13
There was a place called old Shanghai
There the walls and tall and high
Witness a fight between Japanese and Chinese
The gunpowder smoke made you cough and sneeze.
For their own lives, people cry
Bodies lying between each side
Dead soldiers in their armour everywhere
There's no safe place anywhere.
And that's the end of the story
Which made people so sad and worried
To the death let us say goodbye
The sad story of old Shanghai.