Hrachia Saroukhan - LOVE SONG

The night has countless shadows

And a cold body…

The pallid ghost of the moon

For an instant went astray.

They have hidden my love from me,

Taken her far away.

I’m on my way to the fields in the dark

To look for my love.

There is a yellow sadness

Over the autumn grass.

I was told my bitter tears

Were unseemly…

The night has countless shadows

And a cold body…

The moon’s pale specter

Is a crimson slayer.

 Hrachia Saroukhan

Translated by Tatul Sonentz

Hrachia Saroukhan - FORGIVE ME

Forgive me

Gentle, stern saints,

Roslin, Greco and Raphael,

For my daring

Thus

To erase with tears

The dust of hues and hide in my soul.

My fingers sob for what is lost.

This desertion is horribly heavy.

Although Leonardo is my entire soul,

Narekatsi is casting me aside…

Take me in your stride,

Dante, Lorca and Charents,

And christen me with holy liquid…

What my brush did not do in my pious life,

My pen shall render –

Skilled and slender.

Hrachia Saroukhan

Translated by Tatul Sonentz