Step upon the open road

I stand before an open road

taking a moment, looking back

upon the choice and different paths

fading into black.

Down that road I cannot go

there is no real point.

You cannot change your yesterdays.

You learn, take note and employ

healthier understanding and purposeful steps

to draw you closer to the place

of understanding the regrets.

All the paths,

good and bad,

can teach us much

about where we've come from

where we're heading

and who we are to become.

For in those trials,

joys,

and affliction

we draw deeper to the one who guides the way

showing us the richness of who we are

using all the roads to bring us to the gratification of today.

The gratefulness

that nothing is left without purpose.

Forgiveness and healing has been made.

Now we get up, move forward

on the new untraveled roads of today.

No longer searching

for the easiest way

packing up the lessons

of yesterday.

I place them in my nap sack

and step toward the unknown.

I step upon the open road.

--jeanette mayhew

musings of another such traveler....

ROAD LESS TRAVELED

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 onto 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 took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
--Robert Frost