Two Boats

Two boats were moored by the shore, and both began to drift. The first naturally enough though only drifted a little before the limits of the rope were reached, and so within those confines it drifted no more. For some strange reason though the rope of the second boat appeared to go on forever and so on the boat drifted far out of sight. I suppose the best that can be hoped for, with its pointless and useless rope - maybe they were proud of its length- is that some day it might drift back.