Anush Krikorian’s “Like so many others”
Like so many others…
Like many others,
I too
Arrived to this world
for a brief visit.
I too saw
the land and the sky,
I too felt the gentle caress of daisies
in sun-kissed fields.
I too saw
humanity,
viscous and cruel,
Roaming the planet like barbarians.
I too felt
Like so many others,
joy and sorrow.
And
I too will
one day
become dirt –
Like the the dirt of many, many others…
Anoush Krikorian, 1994
I am thrilled to finally be able to read this most beautifully written prose;written by a most remarkable man..
Thanks for your kind words Araxi !! Keep on reading. I am also planning on publishing a book of previously untranslated Roupen Sevag poems [Armenian and their English translation side by side]. Keep a eye out for that. Also, if you have any favourite poems that you’d like for me to translate, please let me know…