The Sudden Illumination

 (My Grandparents Kaler, 1920s)

The moments of happiness--not the sense of well-being

Fruition, fulfilment, security or affection,

Or even a good dinner, but the sudden illumination--

We had the experience but missed the meaning,

And approach to the meaning restores the experience

In a different form, beyond any meaning

We can assign to happiness

{From T.S. Eliot's The Dry Salvages}