They killed a poem.

They killed a poem with tea-stained pages.
They killed a poem still bleeding when touched.
They killed a poem unfinished.

They killed one that’s yet to be thought.

They killed a poem inside of a poem.

A poem knee-deep in its mother soil.

A poem still learning to live.

A poem trembling at the edge of the mouth.
A poem asleep inside the ink.

A poem silenced before its first breath.

They killed a poem inside of a .
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Tathev Simonyan

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Genocide

They killed a poem.

They killed a poem with tea-stained pages.
They killed a poem still bleeding when touched.
They killed a poem unfinished.

They killed one that’s yet to be thought.

They killed a poem inside of a poem.

A poem knee-deep in its mother soil.

A poem still learning to live.

A poem trembling at the edge of the mouth.
A poem asleep inside the ink.

A poem silenced before its first breath.

They killed a poem inside of a poem.

And you, readers,

And you, self-proclaimed worshippers of words...
“Silence has a right to be,”

and so it does.

Until silence is all that is left,

with heaps of dead poems

and your living dead.
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