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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