“We Shall Say to God"
Should it happen we do not endure
this uneven fight and drained
of strength and agonized
we fall on death’s ground, not to rise
and the great crime ends
with the last Armenian eyes
closing without seeing a victorious day,
let us swear that when we find
God in his paradise offering comfort
to make amends for our pain,
let us swear that we will refuse
saying No, send us to hell again.
We choose hell. You made us know it well.
Keep your paradise for the Turk.
-Vahan Tekeyan(1917)
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