Robert Frost.....and me....

[katnmouse]

I remember being in high school and I read this poem....and it had a different meaning to me then...more carefree and anti-authority feeling in a graceful way.....now today as an adult this poem rings of a sort of melancholy...yes we take the road less traveled...but we also understand that it is not the easy road.... sometimes the road we choose...the people we love... the lives we lead.....are the ones Not Taken...which lead to not only adventure....but personal challenge....it's what happens on that Road that will last a lifetime........

The Road Not Taken

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 marked 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.