Enlightenment (lowercase “e”)

Hunger, thirst, lust

Desire, want, need

Aristotle from Greece, Beethoven on piano,

Voltaire through enlightenment, Pollock with cigarette

Reaching, trying to amount, achieve, attain

Without which there is nothing, unhappiness, lacking from nowhere about nothing only blackness, darkness, justified with emptiness

They who have tasted, sipped, felt, can’t let go – no

Longing, desire, insatiable hanker

Like the self-believed intellectual, nicotine addicted – apprentice alcoholic

More arrogant than Leonidas at Hell’s Gates

Criticizing, mocking and ungrateful – reaches

At last, for Aquinas