The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Poetry Foundation

One more poem. (My first favorite poem from elementary school days.)

Actually a very sad poem and a good example at an early age (or any age actually) of taking responsibility for decision-making and owning one's choices. It is now "ages and ages hence".

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
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.

reading of the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/77060