The Road Not Taken (Minstrel Mondays)

Here's a little poem about alternate realities, or the ponderance of their possible existence.  Ever wonder what if about your past?  If so, this will ring true.

You're the road not taken

a place I've never been.

An opportunity that passed me by

that'll never come again.

You were likely a big mistake

a path of pain and despair

but did perchance I tread down you

in an alternate world so fair?

A sidestep through reality

created at the crossroads of life

where points of decision twist and turn

giving every choice a chance.

So somewhere beyond yesterday

I chose the other lane

and there the road not taken

became my destiny.

Did we dance, did we sing

did we cry in misery?

We could have done it all,

you see, in an alternate reality.

A tale of tomorrow's never

can always bring a smile

for it's nothing but a fantasy

full of promise and denial.

And I'll always wonder,

if somewhere over there,

upon the road not taken

if we're pondering what it's like here.