Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 87

My Two-Faced City
Delia School of Canada, Wakita, Tsubasa - 14
Time flies, but nothing remains
Memories form as the surface, will disappear
Where traditions and emerging adjoin each other, like a border
That is Old Shanghai, two-faced city has a fullness of a fragrance
Glorious building with a red peony where shanghainese get-together,
shining at daytime with hustling and bustling
White and shiny towers where businessman get-together,
shining at night with profound silence
Two-faced, European and Chinese culture
Both paths can meet again and again
That is old shanghai, soaking up other cultures to move forward
We live in a mixed city, Old Shanghai