Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 143

The Old City of Shanghai
Ying Wa College, Law, Cheuk Heng - 12
City of history
Full of mystery
Great wall outside
A ghetto and Yu garden inside
Foreigners arrived to trade
Their precious resources they made
Densely built and packed with buildings
Cuisines like Dim sum and dumplings
The sun began to fell asleep in its bed
So as this old city of Shanghai in its end
The time has changed
Skyscrapers remade
Old city was never old
Into a modern city with hanging logos
Who cares the history?
When all the people enjoyed luxury
Looks like the history got buried
Alive under the blurry
Of things in the past
Which has no longer last
Let’s say goodbye
To this old city of Shanghai