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MONUMENT
By Arevshad Avakian
Translated by Diana Der-Hovanessian and
Reprinted from the Christian Science Monitor
(A poem for the April 24th anniversary of the genocide by the Turks)
Today let everyone of us
for a minute forget blood and tears
and we will not have
two million sorrows.
Today, this once, let everyone
of us have only kindly thoughts
and we will have two million
feelings that are pure.
Today let everyone of us keep
a pulsating star in mind and
we will have a sky of two million stars.
Today let us all plant a seed into
this red earth, our vein's earth
and we will have a wreath of
two million blossoms.
Today let everyone of us awaken
the child within us and we will have
two million innocents, two million strong.
Every year on this day let everyone
of us find a star, a flower, a child and
we will multiply again, again
two million flowers, children and stars.
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Arevshad Avakian is a well known poet and painter living in Yerevan.
He was born in Ashdarag in 1940 and has been active in Karoun
Magazine, Radio Yerevan, and as president of the Cultural Foundation.