Oh dear Armenians - you whom <br />Mother America took to her bosom, <br />helped so many of you to become <br />rich and powerful... <br /> <br />if the Turks acknowledge the ethnic cleansing <br />as we call it now, of so many years ago, <br />when so many erred - <br /> <br />will that assuage your grief? will that <br />soothe your soul? Must you ask this <br />of an America not without its own blemishes <br />in ethnic cleansing, over a longer term... <br /> <br />when the guilty men have long since met their God; <br />met His justice and his mercy; who - if some <br />faiths are to be believed - have been reborn <br />to live out the fruits of their good deeds and their bad... <br /> <br />yes, it is wrong for Turks to bring injustice to today <br />and say, we'll only help you if you dropp this call <br />for 'apology, admission' - from whom to whom? <br /> <br />equally wrong, to demand this of the Turks <br />who today are blameless of their past... <br />will admission help them too? <br /> <br />Should Adam forever apologise to Eve, <br />forever, Eve to Adam, and the serpent, thus, to both? <br /> <br />Koha - you the beautiful, who shone behind <br />the counter there at Macy's - may we look <br />into each others' eyes, and drink the future's love?<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/armenian-americans-american-armenians/
