{"id":4925,"date":"2021-06-13T02:14:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T02:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambassadors.ucsiuniversity.edu.my\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2021-06-13T02:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T02:14:26","slug":"my-proudest-song-poem-a-poem-for-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambassadors.ucsiuniversity.edu.my\/index.php\/2021\/06\/13\/my-proudest-song-poem-a-poem-for-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"My Proudest Song\/Poem (A Poem for Yemen)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Writing has always been my huge passion since I was young. Having very few friends during childhood, books were the ones that accompany me through my school years. I loved to get lost in books. I started writing short stories when I was around six. I able to create tiny and beautiful worlds with my pen and it was a kind of joy that delighted my heart. When I was a teenager, I had developed an immense interest in poetry and started to read the works of Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Sylvia Plath before putting pen to paper to write my own poetry. Every time I write poetry, I feel like I am my true self: raw and vulnerable. There are no filters in my poetry and I am able to project my feeling onto paper better than how I do with words. Most of my poetry stems were from my own inner sadness, I had made it a dream of mine to use my words to help others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My social life began at UCSI University and this is the place where I found friends for life. I enrolled in university at the young age of seventeen and I was very lucky to meet many kind people along the way. Two of my very first two friends are two Yemeni students, Yahya and Al-Hassan \u2013 both of them were my seniors in the chemical engineering program. I had met them both in the prayer room in my hostel. We bonded by sharing our experiences with ongoing conflicts in our countries. As my days in the university progressed, I get the opportunity to know more people from the Yemeni community. Three of my best friends who were Yemen natives helped me integrate into the community. I had strong friendship bonds with my friends and I made it a priority to keep myself updated on everything going on in their lives. It breaks my heart every time when I hear the terrible news of the situation in the homeland as well as how bombs and gunfire were taking the lives of innocents. Although it wasn\u2019t much, I wanted to use my gift of language and poetry to raise awareness of the crisis in Yemen. I wanted to write a song\/poem to convey the grief I shared with my friends, their families, and the population of Yemen. Thus, on 18th<\/sup> December 2020, which is World Arabic Language Day, I put up a song called \u201cLegacy\u201d which was written by keeping the warm-hearted, benevolent, and generous Yemini community in my heart and mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n