Poem: The Unneeded Dark History

By Nicholas Michael Krikorian

In the year of 1915,
Armenia was threatened,
And on April 24th,
The dark Ottoman Empire prevailed.

One million and a half lives were lost,
One million and a half tears contacted the dirt,
Because of black-hearted unconscionable warriors,
One million and a half houses were burnt.

There were very few survivors,
Who walked shoeless for miles and miles,
And then they separated with a few things in common,
They had no food, so they fell hungry and wept,
Their arms were skin rubbing bone,
But they all knew they would find peace,
Somewhere…

For a whole one hundred years,
This unneeded dark history has been unrecognized,
So the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey,
Has had the old Armenian joy and land,
No one has helped because of Turkish alliances,
Even after one hundred years,
We have been alone,
With one million and a half angry, lingering souls.

Nicholas Krikorian, 11, is a 7th grade student attending an academic achievement program in Virginia. He also attends the Hamasdegh Armenian School every Sunday. Nicholas’s hobbies include reading, writing poems and stories, acting in plays and musicals, playing the piano, and spending time with friends and family.