Derenik Demirjian - WHAT IS LOVE ?

What is love’s fake happiness?

-- Just one black, sadistic serpent…

And he, whose heart turns into its nest,

Shall bear its grievance in dim darkness…

Love is a nasty spring-awakened snake

So do stay away, lest you get pricked…

Look at my sad heart, about to break,

And all the dark tears that I shed…

Derenik Demirjian

Translated by Tatul Sonentz

Derenik Demirjian - GOD! THESE PEOPLE ...

God! People took me for a fool,            

They cast at me many a stone.                

The rocks hit me in the heart,        

And the wounds still linger on…        

But the big rock that you threw        

During my madcap days of love,                

I still conceal deep, deep inside,                      

                                 In my heart’s most hidden cove…

Derenik Demirjian

Translated by Tatul Sonentz