Najwan Darwish Quotes

Armenian Cognac

A Bottle Of Cognac From Yerevan
is On My Kitchen Table
as Closed As That History
and As Silent
If I Broke It Down I'd Lose A Hundred Years
of Love
and If I Opened It The Ancestors
hanging Here In Black And White
would Come Down From The Walls
to Have A Glass With Me
I Know A History That's Been Forgotten
and I Know Why That Bottle Of Cognac
stands With Such Singular Pride....

If I Broke It Now I'd Lose A Hundred Years
of My People's History

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