The Ladder

Life is a ladder with many rungs,
but to complete this ladder we must use our toungues,
arguments and feuds fill our great travel,
society filled with frivelous bangs of the gavel,
when we first start the ladder we are filled with ambition,
to embark and continue our noblest of missions,
to complete the ladder laid before us all,
and to do so completely without making a fall,
the first rungs are easy, clueless and naive,
compared to the rest they seem to relieve,
for as one ventures further the going gets hard,
so much thinking and dwelling, innocence all but marred,
they think not about life but what shall come after,
their lives become deprived of their once joyous laughter,
we look ahead on the ladder to those near the end,
to the people in life who have been round the bend,
who have seen all the people through all of their trends,
the ones nearing death, so they make their ammends,
these lives seem so dreary, so we become depressed,
and with our destinies we become obsessed,
but what we must realize is that we choose our own path,
to move forward in life or invoke our own wrath,
for ladders are different, some go up and some down,
one makes us happy, one leads to the ground,
we get caught up looking to the end of the ladder,
when our sight and our hearing begin to all shatter,
get so caught up in our future and its needs,
we forget to look just where our path leads,
so don't get caught up on where you will go,
or the path you will take will surely lead down low,
just live your life rung by rung, day by day,
and the path you are climbing shall go the right way,
for there is nothing sicker, nor something sadder,
than a mind and a body opposite ends of the ladder.