Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2018 | Page 64

The Long Road
Ying Wa Primary School, Wong, Cheuk Yin - 11
Those days already bathed in dust,
the story just beginning to rust.
Oh friend do you still recall,
that great old tale again at all?
A monkey, a monk, a pig come out,
to the west they walk without a doubt.
Just to find those sacred scrolls,
not caring if there were any trolls.
Though determined, they fear,
to be killed on the journey, oh dear!
While they feared, monsters sang,
that they would destroy the holy gang.
Spiders, skeletons they try to destroy,
that heroes gang, oh boy!
Though facing countless threats,
the team never gave any regrets.
And finally, yet not easily,
after months of travelling busily,
They had finally reached their goal,
where the Buddha blessed their souls.
Now, my friend, the story has ended,
But that path they took hadn’t bended.
When you walk along that very road,
You’d see how they were very bold!