Ladder Of Success Poem by John Sensele

The ladder of success slides on a slippery wall
Meant to buttress efforts conjured to improve
Prospects for upward mobility that arise in Fall.

Cutthroat competition invites one and all
To give every chance their best shot and make a strategic move.
The ladder of success slides on a slippery wall.

Competitors from all walks of life dribble and dink the pall
Of failure as they re-energise to prove
That prospects for upward mobility arise in Fall.

Initiatives and ideas to prop up progress stall
When retrogressive attitudes contestants refuse to remove.
The ladder of success slides on a slippery wall.

Contest rules for success disregard fooball
As a success tonic. Fraud and malpractices rules disapprove.
The ladder of success slides on a slippery wall.
Prospects for upward mobility that arise in Fall.