Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2020complete | Page 101

spirits yet to be defeated
shout out: you want to be red
(and not blue like the others)
you want to
paint the sky red,
paint the town red
you want to set fire to something,
you want to feel something burn inside
you are a wildflower growing from the ripped
edges and broken corners of this concrete jungle.
you are a wildflower
growing from the ripped edges
glowing from the broken corners
of this concrete jungle
of this gilded cage