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	by Sara Margaryan


	There are moments in life
	When things cease to matter.
	Such moments are rare and valuable,
	But they cause the worst of the pain.
	When sun burns with its utmost heat,
	When you hold a hand
	And it becomes the most precious thing in the world,
	When the degree of despair is uncountable,
	Yet there seems to be no grief acknowledging it.
	Thus comes the solemnity of the most banal paradox-
	The intermingling of the purity with evil,
	Life with death,
	Scorn with excitement.
	Memory turns into a petal and drops
	The minute passes away
	New life begins.


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Sara Margaryan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. She has graduated from
Yerevan State Linguistic University and the European Peace University,
Stadtschlaining, Austria. At present she studies for a Master program
of Asian Studies, Lund, Sweden, specializing in modern Japan. Sara has
been writing poetry since childhood and published a book in 1999.
She writes mainly in Russian, but also in Armenian and English.