Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Winners 2020 | Page 54

Winning Entries
as the train pulls into the station.
The dazzle of overhead lamps douses all;
the platform hurries forth in greeting.
As the crowd rushes in to displace those alighting
the flashes and buzz promise me of home away from home,
for this, this world before me, this unfamiliar familiarity
is simply home
extended.
Two hundred kilometres out
in the early morning hours
I see cities, scintillating,
as I draw near the heart
of a realm yet unnamed, but faintly glowing.
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