Einstein’s General Relativity, while extraordinarily successful in explaining gravitational phenomena, faces challenges addressing certain cosmological observations demonstrated by galaxy roation curves and the expansion of the universe. 2014 Poplawski presented a higher order model of gravitation that reframes the gravitational field in terms of the connection, with the curvature tensor as the field strength. I reconsider the action in this model is based on the squared norm ofthe field strength. Through analysis of the Euler-Lagrange equations, particularly focusing on the metric equations, I demonstrate that Einstein’s field equations emerge as a limiting case within a more comprehensive framework. Analyzing the field equations of the gravitational field, as the connection, I calculate corrections. Global corrections produce a term that replaces the dark energy sector with a geometric term. Local corrections take the form of a Yukawa potential. D’Agostino et al. showed that a Yukawa correction can account for the rotational velocities of galaxies without dark matter. Thus this broader framework provides explanations for observed experimental discrepancies without exotic materia, while maintaining consistency with established gravitational phenomena.