Fwd: a stone has rolled from my mind

[Gabrielle Dean]

The Answer R.S. Thomas

Not darkness but twilight
In which even the best
of minds must make its way
now. And slowly the questions
occur, vague but formidable
for all that. 

There have been times
when, after long on my knees
in a cold chancel, a stone has rolled
from my mind, and I have looked
in and seen the old questions lie
folded and in a place
by themselves, like the piled
graveclothes of love’s risen body.

R.S Thomas, often called "The Poet of the Cross," was a Welsh writer and Anglican priest.  His body of work, neither easily orthodox nor pretty, is now recognized as among the most important religious poetry of the twentieth century.