Looking down from F.5C's 4th floor classroom window

was

A small fan of sea

framed by two slid open aluminium windows

Cut up by running cars, City & KMB buses, container trucks full and empty

on three flyovers sloping up and down, north and south

Twelve tall residential buildings blocking a farther away hill formed the background

See how industrialization encroaches on nature?

I told myself

A sea like this is just not worth loving

Then I took up my red ball pen

and drew this small picture, and reasoned

After all, it is a view from a window

And a sea, no matter how small

Why should I not love it

Is it because too many painters and poets

have painted too many pictures glorifying the big sea

and not taught us to love this small one?

But must things always be like this?

Can't we spare a little sentiment

on every moving and stationary thing outside our small window

You once took pleasure watching cars racing each other after the yellow turn green traffic signal

Your son loves cranes, motorbikes and car models

Why then must you yearn only for things that are natural?

And with the almost finished piece of sketching on my single line F4 paper,

I finally learnt to appreciate what I an hour ago considered 'ugly' from a different angle

Was not my aesthetic view too artificial

because too many painters and poets have over glorified the Big Natural