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The Road Not Taken After Roe Is Gone [1]
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Date: 2022-07-25
Looking to the future, which path is mine?
The Road Not Taken After Roe Is Gone
Raped, ahead of me the road diverged
Two forks that presaged different treads
One leads to 14-year-old motherhood
As a child raising child fatherless
Financial woes, fights and other burdens
Beyond one's skills to rectify
With lost education and lost future
Where alcohol and drugs take their toll
With hope forsaken and all forlorn
Two children from this world are torn
The other road goes to a border clinic
Where medical care and advise provide
A choice to make and a choice is made
Tissue gone, light years from the breath of life
Thus a female's health and dreams restored
And down that road a family built on love can come
Carl Scott Harker ©2022
The first portion of the title of this poem is taken from Robert Frost’s famous poem: “The Road Not Taken” which begins with the line: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.”
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