Enlightenment

Heaven: I don’t want to go there unless everyone else can go there too.

If I attained enlightenment,
would I still
suffer enjoyment?

If my long employment,
greasing the till,
gained enlightenment,

would disappointment
linger, supposing I might feel
regret for some enjoyment

I was supposedly done with—
scent I could no longer smell
in my dreamless enlightenment—

impossible fulfillment
of the life dreamt the day I fell
in love with YOUR enbrightenment.

Can enlightenment
turn a mill
of lost enjoyment?

Enjoyment IS suffering,
a grinding-wheel;
but we trade enlightenment

for more sustained enjoyment
(fiddling a reel
of loving endearment),
suffering so that ALL may attain enlightenment.