in PH 2018 (School Poets) Poets of Gulf Asian English School

Harmony Must Revive

Ancient was the era acknowledged as history,

Contemporary is the phase of soaring sophistry,

Wars waged long and lasting,

Endowing its gloom with contempt casting!

Souls of valiant combatants were revered,

For they being slayers of foes who speared,

Ravaging battles were the antique art,

Bias and bigotry is what the folk of today cart.

Opulence exultant over oblivious mentality,

Conversations remain isolated of reality,

Not a stroke of valuable vigilance,

Is visible averse to vile virulence!

Where does decorous endearment dwell?

Forces and fiends of probity perhaps, make it quell?

Dukes and Duchess of distant lands,

Dressed in pelf and wearing bands,

Gone astray in revelries with arrant gusto,

While ravenous infants squall in sheer throe!

Indeed the overtaking orbs of mankind

Are yet abidingly blatant blind!

Leisure, for men, is excursion and expedition,

As for plebeians, it comprises not even of cognition!

The ones in clover and the ones in penury,

Are like the two poles of the world, afar a century!

This is the detachment of universal amity,

A primeval prejudice and an aspect of present vanity

Here is where the bridge entails building,

To tolerate disparities, we require its crossing!

Consonance must diffuse in intellects and thrive,

For harmony must revive, harmony must revive.

About The Poet

Zainab Mohammed is a grade 11, student Gulf Asian English School, Sharjah.  She is ardent about writing poetry to instill peace and harmony among hearts existing around the world!