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 field that had
the treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to the receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the bush, to the brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but it is eternity that awaits you.
R.S Thomas
Ángel Marroquín 