Alexa Daskalakis
Notes on what it means to be human—
written from the edge of time, memory and silence.
The Path Beyond Both
After Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
Written not as rejection, but as departure.
Frost paused where the road split.
I walked until there were no roads at all.
Two roads diverged.
He paused.
Measured.
Imagined.
Regretted.
He spoke of difference.
⸻
I passed that place.
Briefly.
Then I stepped off the path.
Not left.
Not right.
Through the field.
Past the trees.
Into the quiet
where no trail ever asked to be taken.
⸻
I did not choose.
I did not need to.
I moved
because I could.
⸻
There is no telling
what made the difference.
There is no difference.
Only distance.
And the voice
that no longer looks back.
This work is an original poem, written as a transformative response and critical commentary on “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. All rights to the original poem remain with the Frost estate.