I'm Here To Stay Poem by Sossi Khachadourian

I cannot sleep tonight

Outside it's snowing pain and life

You don't know how it feels like

Living between death and life

Abroad the lights are turned off

The voices of the war are melted with the sneezing snow and sufferings, poverty and tears

Across the darkness the shadows of the past

Are slipping one by one

My loved ones my friend

Those who have run away since the war begun

Some separated us the time

But all were here tonight

Their shadows and their souls

I could feel their breaths
Ah how much I wanted to hold them tied and cry

But they've disappeared throughout my night

I'm not scared of the war

Somehow I used to act the hero of these horrible nights

Since the war begun it took from me lots

Sincerely i admit it gave me lots of pain yet a courage to bear it's vain

So I'm here to stay.