by Louise Leung

Rusted iron, expired toxins
Gunpowder chafes against deluded air
Probability calculation on who and what was shot
Suffocating in my speechless words

Left a trail of red on the concrete road
It didn’t stop there
Vaguely seen, the numbers without meanings
Known only to whoever cares to know

Black is not your colour
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
To kill fire with fire
And to break walls with eggs
Black is not your colour

Louise Leung is a local second-year BA student studying at the University of Hong Kong. She is majoring in English Studies and German, and minoring in Philosophy. Inspired by a poetry collection of Oscar Wilde, she performed her first poem “Wild Green Carnations” while co-hosting the HKU Slam & Jam Night 2018 with Lap-Chee College. Her poem “That Photo on Your Coffee Table” has been published in LINK 2019 by English Society, A.A.H.K.U.S.U. She is also the Publication Secretary of the German Association, A.A.H.K.U.S.U., Session 2018-2019.