Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Thursday's Poem

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Thursday's Poem

The Fork in the Road

By Diana

I stand at a fork in the road. One path is worn smooth and well used, the other is rocky and rutted.

My old friends hail me as they walk past on the main road. My new friends say, don’t be afraid, that they will guide me around the rocky places.

Both paths vanish not far down the road, over a crest of a hill. Hiding their secrets of what lies ahead.

I think maybe that I can go down one for a ways and cut over to the other. But, between the two are brambles and thorns.

I look between the paths and know that I have to make a decision. I hesitate and don’t know which way to choose.

My reason pulls, towards the well-traveled road. My heart pulls the other way, towards the rocky road.

I must choose before it’s too late and time passes me by.

2 comments:

Peterson Toscano7/27/06, 9:37 PM
If only you had a machete!
Thank you for the lovely poem. Great images.
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Lisa7/27/06, 9:48 PM
Follow your heart! It's so very difficult sometimes, but I'm hoping it will be worth it for you as it was for me.

A quotation from one of my favorite books and movies, Out of Africa goes "Perhaps he knew as I did not that the world was made round so we don't see too far down the road."

Just remember that it's okay to not be able to see beyond the crest of that hill.
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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers