Two Paths, Anew

Two roads diverged in a familiar wood

And over time I slowly understood

That two paths would lead to two more from here

And question everything that I held dear

Or reaffirm, depending on the path I take

The path while dreaming

The path awake

And none are traveled

It's only me

Fate cross hairs with destiny

All these paths I'll never know

Save the one I choose to go

And it winds and turns, which way I steer

Uncertain what exactly brought me here

And I puzzle out the path I chose

What may have been? Nobody knows

But this path is fine, for ill or good

And it's high time I understood

That the risk and glory are mine alone

No holy light on my road is shone

Only careful trodding til I choose my way

And look upon here some distant day

How to choose

So many ways

To bring us to

Our coming days

Might I weigh and balance

Somber choose

Or act in haste

Lest I lose?

In preparation, despite how long

There's really no right or wrong

Just what is true to us and those we adore

To do right by all, and maybe more

Perhaps leave a token behind

A piece of ourselves lost in time

A benchmark here, for what we believed.

By which our legacy may be perceived