Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 80

For Power and Glory
Delia School of Canada, Patcha, Rahul Zane - 14
Health, Wealth,
Power and Glory.
The Halcyon Days of my story.
Ricefields, silks and riches galore,
History, grandeur and some more.
Murky Huangpu slithered across,
Soothing, gathering, removing dross.
Crimson sails and columned halls,
Taichi greeting blushing dawns.
Vibrant strokes of baby blue,
Mark the sky, the artist’s cue.
That was then,
But now ‘renewed’.
Beaten, battered, and abused.
Full of light, smoke, and scrapers,
Narrow, dirty, Huangpu capers.
Squeezed in by the concrete parks,
Twisting highways, fashion marks.
Smog emitting cargo ships,
Reflecting on the tower tips.
Crashing through the dismal sea,
Oh, the Hu-vanity!
Hear the story of my fall,
Shanghaied by my friends and all.