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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Post-Graduate – v2


What do we learn from the roads not taken,
of choices made without full exploration?
“What if”, and “where would I be”, if only…
but we cannot go back

I was a Writer at eighteen,
“He leaves to become the next John Steinbeck”
in the Senior Class Will…
But a different path taken

No post-graduate year,
Mr. Paquette’s idea,
of writing and study
exploring a different path

Full-time college instead,
because of Dad’s dread,
the struggle he endured
so many years of night school

Numbers, not words
tapped my precision,
though unconscious decision
simple path taken

Poet at forty, closing the circle
Reading and typing the Law
Leaves me in awe
at the power of words

The same power
That held me back then
and which I use now
to reach a different end.

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edited November 17, 2018
Post-Graduate – v2

8/8/04 11:49
Post-Graduate

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