Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 131

The Old City
St. Margaret's Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School
(Secondary Section), Yip, Tina - 13
Old Shanghai lies behind the hidden wall
Where new one will be coming like a ball
People crawling out the city
But they don’t want your pity.
City God Temple of Shanghai
People look to it for protection
They hide inside its walls of old,
And pray to the God of Gold.
Old Shanghai disappeared in 1912
Although it gone away
Memories will still be in everyone’s heart
They will never fall apart.