Ignition

The flame of our enlightenment

Is lit by many means

As lightning strike or rubbing sticks

The same combustion brings

From solar radiation

Focusing through lens the light

To chemical reactions

All a fire can ignite

So too a soul is quickened

By variety of things

Through logic and philosophy

Ethics and empathy

Through conscience and humanities

Or sociology

Psychology, religion

Even creativity

By way of mysticism

Or a mix of all of these

Kindles illumination

In the oneness of all being

One’s recipe for fire

Cannot change the valid flame

How we achieve enlightenment

Does not alter the same

The dawning of connection

To the one eternal truth

Is scripted into every life’s

Unique and proven route