Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2020complete | Page 88

Greater Bay Area
Creative Secondary School, Kaur, Muskaan - 15
Boom. Another bomb goes off
As this civil war rages on we lose hope.
Hearing the clash of weapons. Living the clash of ideologies.
Greater Bay Area. An incredible megalopolis.
No. A warzone. A failure.
The sleeping giant has cut us off. It sleeps through this all. Not ignorant but unwilling.
It was a good idea. Was
Much like communism.
The collateral damage lay on the once marble floor.
Their guts spilled out. Heaving their last breaths.
Deprived of their right to aging.
For a culture that gives great value to the old, they don't seem to care much now.
Soldiers that never come home.
Children that go missing because hunger blinds all.
Constant terror.
This is the Greater Bay Area.
We are not people.
We are statistics.