Medrik Minnassian: SOME TIMES

Some times in life you want to give up.
Some times in life you want to run away
And escape the scene.

Some times you are tired of loving an unreachable love.

Some times you want to break free
But you are too weak to flee.

Some times you want to say something
But the words just don't come..

Some times you want to know all the answers
But you never ask the questions.

Some times you look back and regret
Some times just before the end you tend to begin.

And some times, some where you look back
And see there were some times
Where you could have stopped but didn’t.

Medrik Minnassian: I KILLED MY FRIEND

I killed a friend,
And the whole world smiled at me.
I killed a friend
And denied my emotions.

I killed a friend
And all the feelings I had.

No one wept,
Neither did I.
No one felt the grief,
But me.

What was so great in their smiles?
A summit conquered on time,
Or an arrow hit the center of the foe.
Was that what they longed to see?
Was it a conspiracy?

It took a long time to tie this rope
And the twinkling of an eye to tear it.
Into the ashes of life has everything vanished?
Into the memories this story stands full of credit.

I stand alone on this tomb.
I stand undone on this stone.

I feel betrayed by my own trust.
I feel stabbed by my own dagger.

I killed a friend.
No one wept,
Neither did I.
No one felt the loss,
But me.


Eighteen year old Medrik Minnassian is a student at the Armenian College in Kolkata. APP thanks his teacher Gulnaar Gilhooly.

Medrik Minnassian: PATH OF LIFE

Did you ever try to walk along a road called life?
Did you ever try to look back and see what you did to all those whom you met?

And now on this road, on this wild road
People come and go
Are given birth and are called dead.

People live and people live
People live to love
And people love to live
People live to fight
And people fight to live

People live to rule and are cruel
People lay low and are so poor.

Genocide is the end of human reason
Shadows of the night are a cover for the light.

And when you turn out to be the only one
It’s terrible to be alone
No one seems to be around.

The wide road seems to be quiet
In the night and under the morning light
Even sun rays are a surprise
Those days are gone, when love used to last for long

No one says ‘I love you’
No one cares what others do
No one cares for the poor or the worse
No one does what is told
Orders are sold by those who toss

Everyone seems to be blind
Because no one looks back
To see what we have done

Failure is not the end
Success will never come

Greed is the only cause,
The good and the bad.