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23 July 2012

The Road Not Taken


When I was younger, I loved to read poetry. Recently I have rediscovered my love of poetry and even have written some myself, though I rarely share my own. This is one of my old favorites by Robert Frost. Someone gave me a copy of it when I started on my road to recovery. So now it's even more special to me. :)

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.

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