Great
and small
spiritual teachers
glowingly preach
and promise disciplined pilgrim creatures
Nirvana,
Paradise,
Heaven,
Blissful Features.

A timelessly perpetual climax
no natural teacher
this side of Eden’s regenerative garden
would dare speculate
we might reasonably anticipate
some great rewoven day
of universal redemption.

It is this Bliss,
too univocal
too monochromatic,
I begin to question

If this climatic experience
is like a deep bright pond
stagnantly enclosed,

Rather than a continuously flowing river
of multicultural
multigenerational
poly-regenerational sensory experiences
spouting out from Here as Now
back to light’s first flicker

And forward
to bright’s most blissful moments
reflected
inflecting constant flowing functions
of energies robustly positive,
cooperative
compassionate changing paradise
returning me to this river
never entered
or exited
exactly this same fluid nirvana
twice.

Not only because eco-rivers
continuously flow
but also because ego-identities
continue to curiously grow
sometimes far beyond
any happy shores
our natural and spiritual teachers
have hoped to personally know.