"Close Your Eyes", Paruyr Sevak (translated By Metamorphesque)

text id: It happens more often than not,
That a person shoots himself in his thoughts.
Shoots the self reflected in clear water, 
in the mirror,
text id: 
Shoots the self reflected in someone else’s eyes,
And dies there and then.
But the second specimen endures –
He himself remains – we ourselves remain.
text id: And burying ourselves without mourning,
We reawaken to life. 
First, as plants and animals,
And after many centuries,
Also, with a human life strenuous and tough.
text id: And all of this lasts
An endless moment perhaps,
Maybe an everlasting week,
Or a momentary year...
text id: My God, you surely must know
How many times I've traversed this road,
Studded with sharp pebbles and thorns,
Again and again,
Barefooted.
text id: I am tired,
so tired of
Killing myself,
And even more, of reliving…
text id: Is there a need
To try the same,
Only this time
By shooting myself
In the eyes of this girl?
text id: 
Close your eyes, my beloved,
I fear with dread
That this time too, I may not perish,
But instead, tear down your eyes.
text id: Close your eyes, my beloved.

"Close your eyes", Paruyr Sevak (translated by metamorphesque)

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