Autograph Poem by Samvel Mkrtchyan

A hundred doves ago
The rainbow was at hand
I had the magic wand
A hundred loves ago

No matter what I did
I’d never be subdued
Because we weren’t dead
A hundred deeds ago

Time was the word was ‘bliss’
These days it’s meaningless
Yet there was no ‘alas’
A hundred lies ago

We felt that we still lived
Whether we wept or laughed
Or when we kissed and left
A hundred lives ago

We heard the flutes of Pan
Foreshadowing the pain
Of a broken heart in pawn
A hundred pangs ago

So granted under seal
Away I gave my soul
There was no buy and sell
A hundred sales ago

The sun would go insane
Above the threatening scene
It started all too soon
A hundred sins ago

And you could never tell
Why it befell until
The church bells ceased to toll
A hundred tales ago

Or could it be we messed
Around with dreams that must
Have vanished in the mist
A hundred myths ago?

A hundred doves ago
The rainbow was at hand
I lost the magic wand
A hundred loves ago