The One-Way Road



I stood across a fallen branch;
Deliberating the two pathways,
 I could keep walking the wretched path
Or perhaps stay still to never experience the wrath,
But the path forward beheld the golden fruit Yet, the path I had followed could take me back to my roots.
 The idea seemed what Frost had discovered Yet it seemed in my life too bleak to be recovered,
 It's a one-way road
Dilemmas build, Dilemmas grow
But what? Oh, what would my existence be if I never reimburse what I owed?

About this poem

This poem was written at a time full of uncertainties. At that moment, moving forward felt difficult due to the crises that stared back at me, but it was through insight and understanding that I knew I had to keep going and that is why I wrote this poem.

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Written on September 03, 2022

Submitted by khewamalhotra15 on February 11, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCDEFGF
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 485
Words 96
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

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