The Musk Of The Trip Poem by Ragy Sandid

Everyone's done it
As natural as breathing air
Till it became a luxury
To be somewhere, no where and everywhere

Magellan's done it
And lived to tell the tale
Ibn Battuta wrote the books
That travelers triumph even if they fail

Then came the times
When people came to a sudden stop
When things came to them
And water through the earth as raindrops

Then the scale of the earth tipped
To Those who could whip the earth to their favour
While others waited till the scale tipped
Or they were given of the favour a flavour

Then pack the bags everyone does
Not for adventure or knowledge or such trivia
But to get that which is needed
To get that one chance, one chance to live

It looks like a small step for man
A giant leap because the earth is small
In a second, everything in the old land
Becomes musk as he nears a final call

And all who thought him stayed there beckon
That his very being stay where it is
And doesn't travel the distance
And be with others like him whom they don't want to be with

But there the grass grows greener
And every scene seeds itself into a stalk
Unlike travelers of old, every concession
Is just another path others refused to walk