Changing the Poems

I seem to always write about death, destruction and genocide.

Or pen something about emigre Diasporans’ longing to return to ancestral lands.

Or their frustratingly long quest for overdue justice.

I wish I could write on something else.

Perhaps a poem on joy, love or peace.

Someday perhaps.

Someday…

In the meantime,

another poem has appeared in my notebook.

It is about conflict and discord.

It seems

I am a quintessential Armenian poet.

Alan Whitehorn

January 19 – 24, 2021

Alan Whitehorn is an Armenian-Canadian poet and a professor emeritus of political science.