ARMENUHI SISYAN

ARMENUHI SIYAN

Peer Of  Love.

I was in love with you since the time I was slave

And had to carry water from the banks of the Nile

Pouring it into your clay pot;

I was in love with you since the time when I was  queen,

And you would knock the terrible bull down at the circus

Then bow your head down before me;

I was in love with you since the time

When you were a pagan god

And wine and blood would mix into our pagan love,

I was in love with you since the time

When you were a crusader

Our love of Jesus would bless our love

And make us follow it;

I bring love to you from the depth of centuries

For I simply was born with love

And you must mix with the eternity of love

Then rise from the centuries being forever new.

***

In place of the love which I donated you

I received  pain.

I can’t deny: generous you are:

the pain you gave me was much more

than my love was.

***

If I manage to escape

from  the race of the time

that follows me,

I’ll go to gather poems,

where the trees blossom

and wait for me:

(so many poems are there!)

ARMENUHI

SISYAN

ARMENUHI SISYAN- writer, poet from Armenia. Professor of Armenian language at Yerevan State Medical University. Her works  are translated into 11languages and published in different literary magazines, anthologies and newspapers around the world: Russia,  Iran,  Poland, Germany, Taiwan, Argentina, Japan, Italy, Lebanon, Paris, Spain, Albania, USA, India, Georgia, ets. Author of  9 books, last 2 were published in Kyoto (Japan) in Japanese. Participant of different International literary festivals and programs. (Аustria, Switzerland, Italy, Japan), winner of different  literary prizes. Member of Writers’ Union of Armenia.  Board member of  International Writers Association  in Brussels (IWA). Member of Japan Universal Poets Association, Kyoto.