The Road First Taken

Inspired by Sunday Scribblings prompt #160: Follow -- and based on Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken.

The Road First Taken
(following Frost)

The yellow wood has turned to green,
The road less traveled overgrown.
My journey's end remains unseen.
And here I stand, lost and serene
Beyond the space where reason's flown.

The path well-trodden boasts its wear:
See! Greater souls have walked this way.
Place your mark here! There's nothing there
But ticks and vipers. Do you dare
Disturb the universe they lay?

Well-rutted roads fall prey to flood
In runoff from the summer rain.
Beyond the path, I sink in mud,
Must blaze ahead with sweat and blood.
I'll never come this way again.

My risk could make a choice appear.
One brash misstep and I could die.
I walk alone. Yet, standing here,
The earth and heavens are always near,
And that's all I've got to go by.





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