未走之路

未走之路

金色的樹林裡有兩條路岔路 
可惜我不能沿著兩條路行走； 
我久久地站在那分岔的地方 
極目眺望其中一條路的盡頭； 
直到它轉彎，消失在樹林深處。

然後我毅然踏上了另一條路，
這條路也許更值得我嚮往，
因為它荒草叢生，人跡罕至；
不過說到其冷清與荒涼，
兩條路幾乎是一模一樣。

那天早晨兩條路都鋪滿落葉，
落葉上都沒有被踩踏的痕跡。
唉，我把第一條路留給未來！
但我知道人世間阡陌縱橫，
我不知未來能否再回到那裡。

我將會一邊嘆息一邊敘說，
在某個地方，在很久很久以後；
曾有兩條小路在樹林中分分叉，
我選了一條人跡稀少的行走，
結果後來的一切都截然不同。

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.

這篇是美國詩人佛羅斯特膾炙人口的詩，尤其是最後三句「...曾有兩條小路在樹林中分叉，我選了一條人跡稀少的行走，結果後來的一切都截然不同」最為有名！

而縱觀全文，我會覺的上圖的二條岔路更能表達出詩人的原意，而且也更接近事實！

大多數的人所面臨的選擇，無論「選擇」的多少，其實大部份的時候都像上圖一樣，差別並不會太大，「向左走，向右走」雖然是截然不同的選擇，但是在一開始的差別 根本是微乎其微，而最後「結果後來的一切都截然不同」！

君子慎乎始....可是，有誰真的能夠在一開始就做出正確的選擇呢？

所以，人生其實不真的決定在「起跑點」上，我真心的希望是決定在對「選擇」的釋然....

(2006年，台北市「愛詩社」出版〉