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Monument
Today, let every one of us for one second forget tears.
And we will not have two million sorrows.
Today, this once, let every one of us have only kindly thoughts
and we will have two million feelings that are pure.
Today, let every one of us keep a pulsating star in mind
and we will have a sky of two million stars.
Today let every one of us plant a seed into this red earth our
vein's earth and we will have a wreath with two million blossoms.
Today let every one of us awaken the child within us
and we will have innocents, two million strong.
Every year upon this day let every one of us find a star, a flower,
a child and we will multiply again, again two million flowers,
children and stars.
By Arevshad Avakian,
Armenian poet living in Yerevan, Armenia
(Translated by Diana Der-Hovanessian)
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