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.