The Road Not Taken

 

 ROBERT FROST, (One of my favorite people).

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Until the 7th Grade, I thought poems (poetry) was for sissies. Then came THE TEACHER (You know the one, the one who can inspire) Mrs. Melissa Grill. Oh she was quite the disciplinarian. Kept me in after class many times to clean the erasers, But she had a way of quoting poetry to make it SWEET and real.  The class was mountain kids, she taught hygiene and manners, along with the regular 7th grade material.

She emphasized the lines I have in color. i.e. And sorry I could not travel both. Decide and do one thing well she said.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back. 

You may tell yourself you can travel both roads, but recalling a moment in time is not possible.

She said choose well in life:

and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

The poet hints he is happy with his decision, it makes a good poem, but choose well, not everyone is happy on a road less traveled by. 

I have learned she is right, not every old person is happy with their life and want to go back and FIX something. You can make some repairs, you really can, but you cannot change it.

Nite Shipslog

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