" Diverged " By Jacky Kapadia At dawn where quiet crossroads softly gleam, Two silent paths pulled thought from steady ground, One paved with echoes of a borrowed dream, The other wild, where truth is rarely found. I lingered where the compass lost its voice, Where doubt and wonder wrestled in my chest, No map could teach the courage of a choice, No crowd could tell which way would serve me best. So I chose the trail that questioned who I’d be, Where shadows spoke and certainty was thin, Each step unmade the man I used to see, And carved a voice I had not held within. Now looking back through time’s unfolding thread, The roads still whisper what I might have been, Yet in the life this divergence has led, I found not loss—but where I must begin. ==================END=================== #diverged, #poetry, #modernpoetry, #poemwriting, #creativewriting, #writersofinstagram, #poetsofinstagram, #poetrycommunity, #poem, #writinginspiration, #literaryart, #wordsmith, #artofwords, #deepthoughts, #introspective, #selfdiscovery, #lifechoices, #pathless, #journeywithin, #philosophicalpoetry