The Bright Field.

" I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while and gone my way and forgotten it.

But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had the treasure in it.

I realize now that I must sell all that I have to possess it.

Life is not hurrying on to a receding future,nor hankering after an imagined past.

It is turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once

but is the eternity that awaits you."

R S Thomas