Wanderers

[bterzian]

Wanderers

copyright @ 2006 Brenda Terzian

 

The desert became a home

For those made homeless

Forced to wander,

wander, and wander

 

Like a circle has no beginning

The desert has no end

But there many found ending

Those forced to wander and wander

 

Agony, desperation and fear

That was all was allowed

But all had to keep walking

To wander, wander, and wander

 

All kept trying their best

For many it wasn’t enough

But the rest had to keep on

To wander and wander

 

How I thirst for a glass of water

How I hunger for a piece of bread

How I long for peaceful rest

How long must I wander, wander, and wander

 

How long am I to be in misery

Has the caring world eluded me

The forced march takes a long and winding path

Where will destiny carry us

 

Dead bodies fall before my feet

Their suffering has ended

They will no longer

Wander and wander

 

But the merciless keeps ours going on.

Why are we to be punished so

Are we to perish without a trace

Into the trenches of wasteland

 

We who were so loyal

And always so devoted

We must remain brave

For we have to keep the Faith

 

For God, for the world,

For Christianity sake

Many with God’s help

Found the strength to carry on

 

Through death or through life

In the hope of a new day

We continue the journey

To wander, wander and wander.

 

But the memory of tragedy lingers

Pictures of innocents remain

Ones who were martyred

‘Cause they had Christ faith

 

Few of us survived

The tortures of adversaries

Living remnants of the past

Destined to tell the truth

 

That present day generations

Can know ever present dangers

Let never the martyrs

Have died in vane

 

Let not others be made to die

‘Cause they have faith

Or be forced

To wander, wander, and wander

 

 

---by Brenda Terzian ,

actress, screenplay writer, international book author, artist

"Let us all be blessed for remembering the past, that we be not doomed to relive

sad events!"

http://rhymster.com/members/Brenda_Terzian

http://www.writesight.com/writers/bterzian

[Takoush]

Dear Brenda:

 

Thank you for your poetry dedicating to our perished martyrs. Thank you for remembering them!!!

 

 

Best,

 

Anahid

[bterzian]

Anahid,

 

I'm happy that you are pleased with my poems. Hope you have a chance to go to my site,

 

http://rhymster.com/members/Brenda_Terzian

 

and read others, especially "Land of Buzzards" which says the whole story.

I am posting on this same web site another poem, which many have contacted me about saying they

are touched by it, which comes from my book, " Warrior Poet Verses: Aram the Great " a book with

a lot of my Armenian poems. The poem is called "Butchery". Perhaps you'll read and care for that

one too.

Before I close, let me say your name, Anahid, is one of my favorites. I named two of my books after the

Armenian goddess, Anahit (same name different spelling as you know), "Anahit, Warrioress: Princess

of Hayasdan" and "Anahit's Sojourns at Ararat", which are both fictional, with embedded truths of Armenian

culture.

 

Best regards, and let us all remember the martyrs always.

Brenda