☀️ The Daily Boost #879
The pearl is here
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THE BRIGHT FIELD
R. S. Thomas
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
treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the 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.
(My thanks to R. S. Thomas, via Mindfulness Association.)
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Here the poem itself seems to become that bright field.
I read it also with the last word as love.
Thanks for this!