Flower Beds

“The Garden of Forking Paths” is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It examines the idea of multiple realities and suggests that at moments of decision, each possible choice becomes the start of a different path of outcomes.

I left early in the morning

While you were still sleeping

Knowing that the adventures

Of this lonely day of living

Would take me far away

From the path you were already on

As you rose to greet the sun.

Now my greatest hope

Through the course of this living

Is to wait until the shadows stretch

Long against the western sky

Where I will find you once again

Working in the garden you planted

When the frost finally subsided

And we were still together.