Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2020complete | Page 80

The Tale of the Greater Bay Area
St. Joseph's College, Lee, Cyrus Chi Hin - 12
On the south of China,
stands the Greater Bay Area.
Once prosperous and thriving,
now polluted and declining.
The pollution swept everything away,
it just seemed to happen yesterday!
Moments that I can still recall,
as the civilization began to fall…
People develop on advanced technologies,
which are also improving life’s qualities.
But none of us had paid attention or had the awareness,
of the contamination that will soon become endless…
When the government had the idea of industrial development,
our faces had shown of enormous delightment.
But we never cared about the mother nature’s howl,
within the living creatures unpleasant scowl.
The stain of the ocean becomes dark and disgusting,
yet humans creates toxic which are corrupting.
Their own factories dump them into the sea,
making every marine bay as dirty as they can be.
Acres and tons of trees were cut down every year,
further and further than the environmental groups can bear.
But the desertification had never been stopped,
no matter how the herbs and weeds sobbed.
People dug the rich gold mines in space too,
destroying soil and water conservation as we knew.
Poor exterminated soil and water quality under ground cover,
will have to spend forever and ever to fully recover.
Long and forgotten these awful time has passed,
still the human didn’t know the damage they caused.
Until they found themselves in terrible sickness,
they started to discover their own regretfulness.
But no matter how they wanted to return to the right track,
they can only find themselves in a painful flashback.
As people leaving and escaping from the area,
this emblemed the end of a tidal era.
Children and the elderly kept crying, sighing and saying goodbye,
since their brave and fearless loved ones die.
Now I am the last in this area to tell this tale,
but with no one alive person for me to retell to.
Now I must endure the hour of my death,
as it is even harder for me to take my last single breath
Farewell, Greater Bay Area,
farewell, Greater Bay Area.