What is This Word Enlightenment?

What is this word Enlightenment?

What is this word Enlighetnment?

At first, I just set off to make friends with Death

Yet, then, a kindly Daoist priest asked me to make a wish

The words were out before I could think:

To Understand Life,

Not to be happy, famous or rich

Just this: to Understand Life, whatever that means

What is this word Enlightenment?

I set off to look for Peace of Mind

The Buddha path appealing, yet hard

I constantly fall and get up

A yearning growing stronger in my mind and heart

What is this word Enlightenment?

In a thousand dreams I never thought it would apply to me

The darkness so dense, so bright with brilliant light

A torrent of golden silver rays crashing through my mind, retracting though my every cell

A peace, a joy, a bliss so short lived

Glimpses of the Divine