A hauntingly beautiful song by Eva Cassidy comes to mind as we walk through Fields of Gold…

 
Many years have passed since those summer days

Among the fields of barley

See the children run as the sun goes down

Among the fields of gold

                    

A young couple, still with childhood innocence, hold each other tightly as they discover the beauty of nature and each other.  At this moment, as they walk  through meadows of endless yellow flowers, there is no way of knowing the pain that will follow the absolute joys of a first love; not in this wonderful place where the earth reaches up to wrap them in its colorful warmth.

So she took her love

For to gaze awhile

Upon the fields of barley

In his arms she fell as her hair came down

Among the fields of gold

Will you stay with me, will you be my love

Among the fields of barley

We’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky

As we lie in fields of gold

 

Summer ends and with it so does the young love that began with the sunburst of yellow in the meadow.  As she sits, alone, grasping the flowers who hold so many secrets, a girl desperately tries not to lose touch with the magic that made a summer affair seem so special.