Childhood Shop
Today I mourn
For my childhood shop
A shop of snacks and toys
Biscuits and FingerPop

Dressed in green
I barely could walk
My grandma would carry me
To that shop on the block

My favourite snack
The Attap-chee
Sweet and chewy
Just like me

Then I grew up
And left the suburbs
Drawn to big shops
Bright lights and Brewerk's

Occasionally I went back
To the snack shop
Grabbed my biscuits
And went off to the new blocks

The government decreed
And despite their pleas
The shop did bleed
And my heart doth freeze

Now I know
That it is gone
For my childhood shop
Today I mourn


In memory of my favourite childhood snack shop at Hougang St. 21...