Llarry da Llama

Llarry da Llama

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Thank you Robert Frost


"I took the one less traveled by /
And that has made all the difference"
Robert Frost

The road not taken, published in 1916 by Robert Frost is a favorite of mine. I was rereading the verse one night and drifted away. At 2:27 AM I awoke with this poem in my head. I wrote it down and left it lay for months. I always try to take a different way home, from my Rose's house. And, yes that has made all the difference. 




Thank you Robert Frost.

The way home is always the same
The houses and farms pass in blurried colors without shape nor meaning
Matters not if the sun is awake, storming or clearing
The way home is always the same, once again
I side step each adventure with every foreign street I ignore
What I have missed, I can’t be sure

Something is beyond that turn, waiting for someone
I should take the time to see what is there
Who would know, whom would ever care
I know, I do care for something is waiting there
My something will have to wait, for my someone can not
Maybe tomorrow, I will grasp that turn and charge down that foreign street
Just to see what I have missed all these years

Where do all those streets go?
Where did all those years go?
These years, never caring, never knowing
The way home is always the same
For all of us who never stray, never take that chance
Never change
Never tumble the dice

The way home is always the same 

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