Poem Fragment

... the eyes of your heart
being darkened,
blinded
by tinsel and neon
to the star
which has risen
in the east
and points the way toward dawn.

Visible
across the vast
expanse of eternity,
you can glimpse it
even here.
But you must close
your inner eye
to this world's
false twinkling,
and step outside
your little self
into the shining darkness
of world without end.

(Part of a poem by Bonnie Thurston, quoted in Lost in Wonder, p. 72)