Mi a droaf yn awr | Turning aside

Nid brysio yw bywyd
at ddyfodol sy’n cilio, na chwantu
am orffennol y dychymyg. Ond troi
yn awr fel Moses i weld y berth
yn llosgi’n dân, a gwyrth
y goleuni a welaist gynt ar wib,
ar doriad gwawr,
ac a fydd dragwyddoldeb dy fachlud.

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.

o | from “The Bright Field”
gan | by R. S. Thomas (1913–2000)

I’ve written our diocesan Lent resource this year, Turning aside, which can be downloaded here.