Remembering Robert Frost

I keep on hearing the President about "tuwid na daan" since his campaign to clinch the presidency.  I have this thought that people might mistake the "tuwid na daan" as the easy path and the "baluktot na daan" as the difficult one. 

I think it should be stressed that what we should be doing is to find the correct path, the path not easily discovered.  I recall a poem that we read in Mrs. Favoreal's class back in early 80s at NPS. The poem was written by Robert Frost, an American poet.  

The Road Not Taken

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

(Robert Frost, Mountain Interval,1916)

Robert Frost was born March 26, 1874 and died January 29, 1963.