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The Road Not Taken-The Reincarnation

The False Prophet took a piece of paper out of his pocket. It was a poem. While 
writing it, he remembered, he felt like he was solving a puzzle. Originally, when 
Joe Kaye first developed the theory that he had left a message for himself in a 
past life, he thought he might have been Robert Frost. He had written this poem, 
to either prove that he was or wasn’t the reincarnation of Robert Frost. After 
writing it he still couldn’t decide, and he still didn’t know what the message was 
that he had supposedly left for himself. He read the paper to himself. This is 
what was written on it.  

The Road Not Taken-The Reincarnation 
 
TWO paths emerged in greenish pasture
And since it was impossible to go down both
I thought which way would get me to my destination faster?
And wondered if speed was important when running the race
Isn’t it objective that matters and not the pace? 

I went down the beaten path with grass so long 
Which was dark and twisting, with no end in sight
And even though I stood tall and strong
I wondered if I had wandered wrong
And philosophized if there was such a thing as wrong or right

Although each path was equally unstable
The one I strayed down had more twists and turns
Oh I kept the second path for another fable 
Yet knowing how stall leads to stable
I was certain I would never return

I revisit this with a pondering thought
And years from now reflecting on the past
Two paths diverged and still I fought 
And took the one that’s hardly sought 
And that has made my happiness so much more vast.
 
 In the end he decided he was not the reincarnation of Robert Frost, and went 
back to the drawing board studying more writers and poets.
 
Excerpt From: The Chemicals Between Us
By: Joseph DeMarco

Copyright © Joseph Demarco | Year Posted 2006

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