Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2020 | Page 18

Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2020
minutes across twenty-four kilometres;
We welcome you aboard the journey
across the Shenzhen-Zhongshan bridge.
It had been four
years.
Four years, and he hadn’t seen
her pink cheeks
smiling eyes
once.
Even twenty minutes:
too long.
vi. the river
There she was.
Squinting eyes body braced
neck craned, searching
amongst the hustle and
bustle
for that
familiar
face
Where was he?
Eyes scanning
among the crowd,
Overwhelmed
The constant chatter of the city
The pitter-patter of a thousand layers footsteps
Where was that
familiar
Face?
Then, she hears a
yell.
“Hai zi!”
She turns.
Eagle eyes; softening
“Ba!”
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