Ah! Ah! Ah!
The morning sun was bathed in bright blue
The sky with the warmth of action.
Before your heart, bloody of a wounded bird
It beats desperately like a chest.
What is this pain that you give yourself?
To have a love affair,
Why does he beat the wounded bird?
A heart fighting for life,
While his blood is on the feathers
Longing to live, to love, to be loved.
Isn’t it through this wound that people build faith?
To convince their inner world,
And they build lush temples to pray,
To comfort, to learn and to believe.
To believe in something that needs to exist
Had thought in truth,
And for a moment, it seemed to exist for real
More specifically, magical.
In a vision, inexplicable, irreparable,
Unremembered, significant only in blood.
But in the present today, real and accurate
How can one feel or remember?
How to break the sun into action?
The rays of heat are realistic,
Especially when the sun shines
Somewhat warm and clear
Drops of blood flow from wounded hearts
Stained the coffee with a splash,
Deep with red sorrow, whose loathing
A flycatcher flies an invitation.
Go out and a new morning d:with this sign.
Go ahead and look for new eyes with these vain tsolks.
Work and build a new life with this bloody mortar.
But you can bear it, if you believe, be strong, old man
Khaltea of the Gods.
George Galajjian
--Kevork K. Kalayjian, Jr. is a graduate of the AGBU's Melkonian Educational Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ, a M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology, from WilliamPaterson University, Wayne, NJ, and CPA requirements completed at Pace University, NYC.An auditor by profession, Kevork resides in NY and likes to paint and write. Some of his poems have been published in literary periodicals such as "Ararat", as well as The Literary Armenian News on Armenian News.org and at www.poetry.com.
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