Question the Question by Vivek Sharma

How unfair is your fair skin – face question?
I ask for love. You say, don’t – race question?

By taking a stand I – raise question.
You dislike my ideal, but praise question?

But when ‘?’ is buried alive, is ‘?’ – a courage question?
There are no answers apt, so erase question?

“Charged dismissed, released!” but the disgrace question?
Is accusation an insult? Or is it a phrase question?

Who owns this country? Is it a space question?
Must we ask the gravediggers? Is it a grave question?

You seek truth or beauty, not just the surface (question?)
Why isn’t to answer as simple as is to graze question?

Silence me, condemn me, force me to retrace question.
But whatever Vivek asks, isn’t that an always question?

Indian Literature | Indian Review Author | Vivek Sharma‘s first book of verse The Saga of a Crumpled Piece of Paper (Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 2009) was shortlisted for Muse India Young Writer Award 2011. His work in English appears in Atlanta Review, Bateau, Poetry, The Cortland Review, Muse India, Reading Hour among others while his Hindi articles and verses appear in Divya Himachal (Hindi newspaper, India), Himachal Mitra and Argala. Vivek grew up in Himachal Pradesh (Himalayas, India), and moved to the United States in 2001. Vivek is a Pushcart nominated poet, is published as a scientist and he lives and teaches in Chicago.