These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Homage to Robert Frost

"Two lives diverged" said Robert Frost,
though not in words so truly plain.
He quoth for us the daily cost
of choices made and choices lost
in life so blest (or not) by rain.

My days of life did take the way
of artist wife and actor-child.
Another path The Lord did stay
of filled-up classrooms, minds of clay
a-speaking truth with voice so mild.

Were both as worthy? Honest quests?
Of this I trow. I daren't choose.
The Lord still molds me with His tests
to write His story, and me bless,
by talents He has yet to use.

I shall be sighing as I speak
at laud now lost through days of shade.
The lion rests in place more meek
than ever he would dare to seek,
but ruling Lord must be obeyed.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

by Jay O’Toole
on August 24th, 2021