Climbing Up Poem by lalitha iyer

climbing up
I am slipping down
one step to go
and aho here i am
down to earth
hope upon hope
all I heaped
just like a pack of cards
down they went off record
the money i spent
spent to folly
the hours i spent
wasted for jolly
the love i sent
scrambled to dissent
thoughts of wisdom
they spilled into fooldom
i am loosing
lost am I
yet, what I lost was never mine
and though lost am I here
sitting and talking nowhere