The Road Taken
By Milton Ehrlich
Was silent with thick,
white lines,
curvy and treacherous.
Uphill all the way,
I never knew where
the road was going
or how long it would
take to get there.
I understood I must stay
within the white lines.
Words didn’t matter.
I paced myself to the
metronomic tick
of the windshield wipers.
Danger lurked at every turn.
I could hear God laughing
as he said:
You could have taken the other road!
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Milton P. Ehrlich Ph.D. is a 90-year-old psychologist and a veteran of the Korean War. He has published many poems in periodicals such as the London Grip, Arc Poetry Magazine, Descant Literary Magazine, Wisconsin Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times.
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