We love this blogger's description of her journey to become in her adaptation of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.
“TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood”
And the yellow wood was me
One path who I was, one path what I chose
Together: discrepancy.
“And sorry I could not travel both”
Dissonant opposition – contrary!
One what I want and one what I chose
Two paths define: discrepancy.
My choice looked “grassy and wanted wear”
Yet briars have cut feet and me!
Soft: appearance, thorny: reality
Never congruent: discrepancy.
My soul: Discordant betrayal.
My mind: Racked desperately.
My heart: Vast contradiction.
My path? DISCREPANCY.
“I doubted if I should ever come back,
…Knowing how way leads on to way,”
How did I end up lost in the undergrowth!
I loved the path! Why did I not stay!
My bloody footprints stain leaves on the path
But I’m leaving scars there, you see?
For each step I take backward ushers me forward.
Beautiful: discrepancy.
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – ”
TURNED BACK.
“And that has made all the difference.”
This piece quotes several times a famous poem called, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost - a poem so famous that you have probably heard it many times! I wrote this poem today because I was thinking how for me - and probably for a lot of others as well - it sometimes seems like I am two people. Do you ever feel like that? Why do we sometimes make choices and decisions that are so contrary to what we most deeply know and want? I'm positive that we are all discrepant about certain aspects of our lives, but what matters is our desire to change and find integrity between those two paths of what we want and what we choose - to make those two paths one and the same.
Melissa Nickle has always had a love of writing. Her obsession with writing poetry began in recent years after compiling and publishing two books, both of which contain the poetry of her two accomplished poetess grandmothers. Outside of writing, Melissa can be found working hard as ever as the Owner of her own company, Blossom Sweet, where she creates floral designs for weddings and events. She is also excited (as in excited beyond words!) to be graduating from BYU in April 2012 and to claim that oh-so-coveted Cougar Alumni status! Finally, she is grateful to have served as a missionary in the Georgia Macon Mission (2006-2008).
Melissa Blogs at Miss Meliss & My Life of Bliss
