Maybe

    Maybe I will know

                the truth

    maybe
                excellence is no more
    than the sun
                playing meadows
    soon I will know
    the rain
                the tears of Life
    but I am
                naked O World
                spilt into the Ocean
                crying seagulls seagulls
                only the wind.

                                        July 29, 1986
                                    --Alexander Shaumyan