Foresight: The One Field

'Enclosed Field with Rising Sun', Vincent van Gogh, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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'The Bright Field' by 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
the treasure in it. I realize 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.

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Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was a Dutch painter.

R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) was a Welsh poet and an Anglican priest.