Yasmeen Wafa

About the Poet

Yasmeen is a 15 year old student studying in year 10 from Al Salam Private School and has many interests in the field of literature and language. She has been writing poetry for about three years and finds it to be an excellent way of self expression and reflection.

Her poem, Prepossessing Calamity, talks about the struggles of an ordinary person living under the power of manipulative politicians and the determination of not giving up against the face of cruel humanity in order to regain peace.

Prepossessing Calamity

Why can’t we respire

Without burning everything else

Man had discovered fire

Now it is what they regret

Why can we not have peace

And live in dreams of harmony

Let the conflict quiesce

Play the melodic symphony

Devious politicians

In malicious elections

To gain fake positions

To make atrociaous volitions

You say, the children of today

Are the future of tomorrow

Your words decorated like a bouquet

Yet their meaning is hollow

Your eyes are rheumy

Your mind is perilous

That explains your cruelty

Your actions are merciless

This needs to end

How many people’s lives will you rob

Till when will you pretend

That you are good, when you are a snob

Peace is not unfeasible

Unfeasible peace is not

Stopping you being formidable

For that our people fought.

About the School

Al Salam Private School & Nursery is a British Curriculum private school located in Dubai, UAE. Its original site was established in 1985 as a nursery, located in the historic communities of Dubai, in Al Rigga, to Al Muteena and later Hor Al Anz, from which the school opened in 1988.