Scraped Knees & January Hopes

By Err0r

You tell me.


If you could've taken just one step to the side- would it have all been alright?



Hardened rain like tiny beads battered against my face like the overused line goes.

It's one giant mistake.

Thats fit perfect, for a tale like this...


Never asking for much,

Always getting used more in return.


Tackling dogs, and wrecking cars-

all just a days work in the life of the wrong path.


Robert Frost was right, just everyone else misread him.

He took the wrong path, the less traveled one was clearly a dead end.

Leading to a life of misery.


I hate. that damn. poem.

If only I had read it right the first time...


February left with a sigh and fell into March.

Here I am, another month has passed-Everything just gets worse.


Like happiness erodes with time.

Never as great as it was the first.

The little things start to matter less and less.


Come to think of it- Robert Frost can go to hell,

With this poem and my lost hopes for a better year,


When all I have realized is both everything and nothing.


That is where you'll find me.

Back at the fork in the road pissed off realizing both ways suck.


So I just won't go anywhere.


This life is inevitable, we can only choose the way we tread ground...

And hope that it's not the wrong side of the sidewalk...


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© 2006 Err0r
Published on Wednesday, March 29, 2006.     Filed under: "Philosophical" and "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: when we walk on air we need not take any paths....good write

  • A former member wrote: I absolutely love you Brit. I know exactly what you are saying in this.. We have many parallels in our lives. You absolutely do rock me, and I love it. ~Lost

  • A former member wrote: even if you choose not to decide baby girl.....you have still made a choice. You need to figure out what that choice you made is. I love this poem though. I've tried expressing this many times.

  • A former member wrote: Kudos to you for knowing your voice this well ♥

  • ApathysKiss On Thursday, March 30, 2006, ApathysKiss (377)By person wrote:

    hold your breath and just jump! life is a series of lessons and when we do find the way we think is best, regret ruins everything that surrounds what we might have missed at some other path...

  • ApathysKiss On Thursday, March 30, 2006, ApathysKiss (377)By person wrote:

    i hear ya and it blows...not the poem the subject matter *michelle was here with eyebags*

  • A former member wrote: i do not like frost's poem either, my friend took the road less traveled, and now no one knows where the fuck he is...this is just painfully wonderful

  • veingo On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, veingo (526)By person wrote:

    I imagine watching peaple as there lives play out, and your words are that of the narrater. I like it. ^V^

  • A former member wrote: as long as you are not telling this with a sigh somewhere ages hence... you have chosen the right path... if such an one exists. or did I read you wrong ;)... I agree with Wen below

  • A former member wrote: Oh lordy, love...this broke my heart and shoved the shards right through my eyeballs. If I knew I could swallow glass and live through it, I would never give up the pain of my tears. This is gorgeous. *Evangel*

  • A former member wrote: Powerful, quite.

  • Dissolving Poet On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, Dissolving Poet (560)By person wrote:

    Wow this was perfect in it's broken way, the way it played into my mind with no release. You continue to stun me with your words. This made my heart ache and burn for you. ~tara~

  • A former member wrote: damn, that ending..a perfect finale to a complex heartpoem. this was just wonderful- "February left with a sigh and fell into March. Here I am, another month has passed -Everything just gets worse." beautifuly sad.

  • A former member wrote: we are forced to live with our decision...so march on ahead and wait for the sun rise, more than excellent write ~sinful~

  • A former member wrote: Here I am, another month has passed-Everything just gets worse. Like happiness erodes with time.- Yes it does...but the darker the night gets the sooner the sun will come up...shit gets even uglier when going back isn't an option...

  • MESUN On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, MESUN (230)By person wrote:

    hell yes. testify! i said these same things back in my highschool english, aside from the going to hell, about frost. too bad i had a psycho nazi frost fan for a teacher. well, while you're on life's little stroll, i guess just bring and umbrella.

  • TaintedButterfly On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, TaintedButterfly (653)By person wrote:

    Funny how things work out huh? This was a really thought provoking and poignant piece Britt. And if I were to go back to the fork in the road, I would walk straight up the middle of that fork! ;) Love & hugs hun! Julia~

  • Angst Queen On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, Angst Queen (370)By person wrote:

    Wow...words well spoken. Its hard to decipher the right path, assuming such a path exists at all.

  • The Crimson Queen On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, The Crimson Queen (917)By person wrote:

    Aww..that was very interesting.. but I enjoyed reading it. The last two lines were the perfect ending.

  • manywalks On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, manywalks (747)By person wrote:

    Sometimes I wonder if there ver is a "right" path. Perhaps there isn;t meant to be. ~ wen

  • Guillotine On Wednesday, March 29, 2006, Guillotine (168)By person wrote:

    choose the right path. Karma rules the other from the dash of a semi. Brilliant write this, expressing a lot of emotion and pent up frustration/sorrow.

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