PoetryLiterary Corner

Do not run

Do not run Armenian, you’ll only die tired.
For the mountains of our homes are just cruel imagery of our tombstones.

Do not run Armenian, you’ll only die tired.
Those cursed to leave watch from afar
and suffer at the loss of their mother tongue
forced to wear their identity as scars. 

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Vika Dzhobadze

Vika Dzhobadze is a first generation Armenian-American from Charlotte, North Carolina. With a degree in History from North Carolina State University, Vika has not only a personal connection to diasporic studies but an education in it, as well. She began reporting on the forced displacement of Artsakh-Armenians in 2020, which affected her family, in NC State's newspaper and contributed poetry to the Armenian charity magazine, Split Pomegranate. Vika plans to pursue diasporic studies or public history in the hope of preserving and promoting Armenian history.
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