Jason Horsler Poet Rhyme

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(08/2023) Inspired by ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost. See Acts 17:30; 14:17; Romans 1:19 - 20; Hebrews 1:1 - 3.

This poem was first published in volume 2 of my poetry ('The Teaching of the Quail) and is also included in the omnibus collection 'Butterfly Mind' (2025).

THE CHOICE NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged as they often do 
and at the fork a skeleton lay - 
a traveller who stood and thought it through;
as around his feet the bindweed grew.
He stayed too long to choose a way

Seeing both paths equal - foul or fair -
I wonder how his thinking went
that had him starved and rooted there;
caught in vacillation’s snare 
until his life was vainly spent.

We may say this fool deserved to die; 
this ignoramus had no wit,
but for God’s grace stay you or I
who do not lack the Lord’s supply;
for decision has faith at the soul of it.

I shall be singing this by and by 
somewhere many ages hence:
two roads diverged and it was not I
who made no choice except to die
and thus show God indifference.

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