A humorous poem by Berton Braley about going a little further. Some people are content to stay exactly where they are and how they are in life, but others like Braley want to keep going until all roads are exhausted. While the poem is funny it is also encouraging to keep on going, life has much to offer if we just keep going a little further.
Another humorous poem by Berton Braley that you may enjoy:
Luxury
Poet: Berton Braley
Conceptions of affluence vary a lot;
To one man it's victuals and drink;
Another man dreams of a sea-going yacht,
With a music room finished in pink;
To women it often means gems by the peck,
But affluence spells — to my brain —
A car where you sit on the back of your neck
And drive with an air of disdain.
You've seen just the type of an auto I mean;
It's long and it's throbbing with might;
It's built very much like a sleek submarine,
But it runs like an aero in flight;
In brief it's the kind that can certainly "trek"
When it roars like a limited train,
The car where you sit on the back of your neck
And drive with an air of disdain.
I might be so broke that I'd skimp on my meals
And pawn all my shirt studs for "gas,"
But if I could own such a monarch on wheels
I'd think of myself as "the class."
Of debts and of poverty little I'd reck,
For an affluent poise I'd maintain
In a car where you sit on the back of your neck
And drive with an air of disdain!