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Ways We Might Have Gone. ( poem )
by joebangles @ 27/03/2008 - 23:58:32

Looking back through my posts I found this poem, possibly many of you will have read it, but there are new friends now and visitors that look in, so I think it is well worth another post.

Ways We Might Have Gone.

Two roads are on offer, and what will it matter
If this one or that one is chosen today?
Who has a globe to look into the future?
What will it mean if we choose the wrong way?
Who knows the reason for making decisions
That decades from now may condemn us to hell?
Lights that entice-are they simple illusions?
Will happiness follow? Or pain? Who can tell?
A lifetime is over-we look back in wonder
At roads we neglected to journey along;
But who is to say that we could have fared better,
That we opted to go where we did not belong?
A tradesman, a teacher, a Cromwell, a Caesar,
The highways they followed all finish in dust;
Now fate in its mercy has made us an offer
That needs no decision- for take it we must.

Frank Macdonald

Isn't that a wonderful poem.

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chassychassy [Member]
28/03/08 @ 12:50

A most excellent poem!

I've not seen it before, thank you for posting it again Trevor :yes:

deana24deana24 [Member]
29/03/08 @ 22:21

I like it very much and I think, it is saying (to me) that you should just get on with it. End is end in the end (which makes sense in my head, though looks poor written down...). Whatever you choose you go to God finally and all choices will take you there. Be free. (of course, I may be completely misinterpreting but...)

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joebanglesjoebangles [Member]
31/03/08 @ 00:38

Possibly my favorite modern poem deana, unfortunately I am not a believer but it seems to sum up life, we don't know what the future holds for us, it's probably better that we don't.

When we look back we all have some regrets, but why? We presumably made the decision at that time when it seemed the right decision to make, if it turned out wrong, well, that's just bad luck.

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deana24deana24 [Member]
31/03/08 @ 08:46

I don't think it matters whether you believe or not. If you believe in free will than you get to the same conclusion. I think making an effort to show and feel love is a good move though, everything else is just add-ons, really.

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joebanglesjoebangles [Member]
31/03/08 @ 15:07

Oh, believe me deana, I have tried to believe, I wanted to, I have met many that do and felt jealous of them, my wife believed and left this world peacefully.

I come up against to many doubts, too many walls, I don't have the faith to jump over them, the scientific bit in me can't accept what I am being told.

My way is, do it right this time if you can, you don't get another chance.

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