Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Turning 27 with Robert Frost

In light of all the huge life changes I'm making, I was touched to receive this poem from our CFO for my birthday today. I don't think I could find anything else quite this perfect to describe my life right now. (I actually get a little emotional reading it...)

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

The Road Not Taken

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 on to 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—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

3 comments:

The Norris Clan said...

Happy Birthday, my friend!! Looking forward to one last weekend together :-)

Peter Plantenberg said...

One of my favorite poems.

The Terps said...

That's an eclectic gift from a CFO, but a very fitting one. I like it.