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Every choice we make has the power to shape the journey ahead.

A Fork In The Road

A lone traveller, a fork in the road, and a choice that leads to unexpected reflections on the paths we take and the lives we leave behind.

Piyush Doorwar 💻
2 min readNov 13, 2024

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Here’s a little piece from my college days! 🌅 I wrote this poem a long time ago, inspired by Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. It’s about those choices we make that lead us down unexpected paths.

I still love how it reflects the way a single decision can change everything, so I thought I’d share it here. Hope you like it!

Photo by Oliver Roos on Unsplash

I rode down the town at dawn, had to reach capitol by nightfall.

Came across a fork in the road, impetuously chose the unpaved course.

I walked down the lonely road in a summer solstice, wet in sweat.

Gazed along the length of the dead yellow scruffy stubble plain,

Which once was, not like others, reaped sterile and…

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Piyush Doorwar 💻
Piyush Doorwar 💻

Written by Piyush Doorwar 💻

Software engineer by day, finance geek by night. Merging tech with money smarts and sprinkling wit on algorithms and interest rates!

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