Vahan Terian (January 28, 1885 – January 7, 1920) was an Armenian poet, lyrist and public activist. He is known for his sorrowful, romantic poems, the most famous of which are still read and sung in their musical versions.
HOW TO STOP DEATH
Vahan Terian
When seductive voices call out,
alluring, sweet as flutes,
when hands soft as falling snow
reach tenderly to you,
when they beckon from a distance
toward the unmapped deep
trying to pull you forward
tempting you with sleep,
shake them off with poems.
Tell death to go away.
Don’t think it won’t be beaten back.
Songs keep death at bay
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FATE
Vahan Terian
There is an invisible chain in the skies
unseen, as pain is unseen
except in the eyes.
The chain settles with the galaxies
of night to buckle the stars
each to each.
They flicker like sacred candles
and reach, but are tied
to order, and held separate by sight.
Like the stars, you and I are tied together
by dreams, not by want
Always together, always separate
on the same course, but orbits apart.