Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 177

The First Opium War
St. Margaret's Co-Educational English Secondary and Primary School
(Secondary Section), Kuar, Sukhpreet - 15
These awful three bloody years
Three years and five months we fought
No one thought of these fears
Not until we knew what we lost.
Which started in eighteen thirty nine
And ended in eighteen forty two
Nanjing was not anymore of mine
My majesty’s it was to give to.
All I had was two hundred thousand
But what they had was never mine to have
All happenings were on my homeland
And there was nothing that I could ever do.
Seven generals from them
Seven generals of mine
At the end of the long day
Nanjing is nothing of mine.
Although we might have lost
But bravely we have fought
And whatever that is thought
Remember we have fought.