Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2020 | Page 25

Poetry – Group 5
Paper Planes
International College Hong Kong, Ho, Clarissa – 16
China’s sun
Exhaled a
Breath
Of light.
This blinding
Brightness,
Reflected on
An imaginary
Sea bridge.
Spirited heat,
Moving like an
Unchained
Dragon,
Setting fire
To the earth.
Moulding and
Shaping,
Kneading and
Caressing,
Moving the mud,
Firing soft clay,
Crafting it
Into small
Workers.
Aimlessly,
The workers
Wander
Unconsciously.
Dragging their
Lifeless bodies,
Carrying the
Indescribable weight
Of a future,
Walking on an
Endless imaginary
Bridge.
Blood, sweat and tears,
Penetrating through
The scratches of their
Now
Rugged
Clay bodies.
Like fire
Burning the flesh,
Alive.
Dreaming dreams
They never had.
The statuettes
Of terracotta,
Now
Children.
Infinite children,
Folding their dreams
Into a paper plane,
Willing the
Paper planes
To fly
Just like
Phoenixes.
Standing high
On a bridge,
Towering above
China,
Standing on the tips
Of their dainty feet,
Looking from the
Top of the world.
Declaring,
“The Greater Bay Area,
Where the sky’s the limit!”
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