A QUESTION OF QUESTIONS

There is a question
Unanswered for centuries and millennia
That has left us bewildered.
Scholars and prophets have asked
All for naught
And left it to be taken as faith
A divine cause.
 
Gypsies and dervishes dance to it, puzzled
Some look to the cosmos for clues
Others into a drop of water.
There are those, silently sitting
By the shore or mountain top
Pondering a metaphysical sign.
 
As to who are we?
Why are we here?
Why is here, here?
 
We answer as we grapple
With the end result
Not the root cause!
And that may be the reason for
The emergence of iniquities everywhere.
 
 
Reza Ghadimi
July 7, 2022