‘Hostile Environment’ by Fiona Trinh, age 14, Year 9, Soham Village College

Deafening.

Cold.

Inferior.

 

The same thing. Same schedule. Same treatment. That’s what happens here , when  I open my eyes,  a deafening eerie silence  followed  by  the clanking of machinery. Cold  hard stares peering into your soul analysing you but no emotions found. And  the  feeling  of  being  inferior. Here  in  this  hierarchy, humans  come  dead  last.  A  close joke.  A  conclusion  to  the  ridiculous story. And  the  end  of  an  insult. Last,  minor,  second-class, nothing.

 

This  intellectual  city  used  to  be  so  captivating,  bewitching  people  worldwide filled  with  talent  and  integrity. Once  a  beautiful  prosperous  region  that  had the objective  to  be  affluent; a  vibrant  home  that  sheltered  all.

 

But  not  anymore.

 

A  bitter megalopolis  that  was  just  once  filled  with  this  warmth  but  now segregated  between  robots  and  humans. Not  a  part  of  live  vegetation  found  in this  blanket  of  piercing  metal. No  one  here  is  really  conscious  or  bothered about  the  discrimination  we  face  and  to  the  people  who  are,  they  fear   to oppose  the  so-called  normalities  of  this  indisputable  city; leaving  future adolescents  a  world  with  institutionalised  racism  ingrained  into  them. Nobody reminisces  about  the  past  because  no  one  remembers  the  beauty. But  I  do.