The Girl Not Dated

This is a poem adapted from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. 

TWO girls waited in a yellow mall,

And sorry I could not marry both

And be one hunter, long I stood

And looked down one future as far as I could

To where it end in holy matrimony and beyond;        5

 

Then dated the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better temperament,

Because she was funny and wise;

Though as for the other girl

They really are about the same temperament,        10

 

And both that morning equally called

In their history no exes had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first girl for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever called back.                          15

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two girls waited in a mall, and I—

I took the one less dated by,

And that has made all the difference.                              20