Gopika is a student from GEMS Our Own English High School, Dubai. She is an avid reader with an uncanny interest towards anything related to arts and aesthetics. Writing, sketching, and the occasional composing, happen to be her dabbling centers. Khaled Hosseini, Mitch Albom, Patrick Ness etc. are a few of those one in a million people who have managed to tug at her heartstrings and have allowed her to see the world in a different perspective.
Through His Eyes
A juncture of unsettling haze
A brume of wretchedness, of bitter woes
The raucous laughter of deranged foes
The silent screams of slaughtered souls
Tarnished hands yearning conception
Sworn to the soldier’s creed,
But with a core of clemency
He brushes away the remnants
Of a once beating heart, his comrade
He remembered those days
Of subtle smiles and gentle laughs
Of an unscathed mind and guileless eyes
A suckling’s life, an unrehearsed mime
Then came the comber
Of noxious lies and rebuking cries
Of wars and incomprehension
A world brewing mayhem
What he longed for was not transcendental
But rather, a bout of rectitude
Where origins and chronicles
Stratums and cachets
None mattered
He sat beside the ageing grave
A gnarled finger tracing the epitaph
There was a sadness to his eyes
But a happiness to his heart
For when his compeer,
Walks down Heaven’s lane
He will see Peace from afar
And he’ll smile, at his turn of fate.
One of the oldest schools in the country, GEMS Our Own English School – Dubai, has been providing outstanding education and support to students from across the globe for almost four decades.
Affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, India, we currently have over 10,000 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12, representing over twenty-two nationalities – making us a truly international community that epitomises multi-cultural Dubai at its finest. Classes are mixed through for boys and girls from Kindergarten to Grade 4 and then only for girls from Grades 5 to 12.
