If you climb six steps of eighteen step ladder you don't have that far to fall <br />And you won't know great disappointment if your dreams are only small <br />And those who scaled the heights of success had to climb up all of the way <br />And many who have reached the summit at the summit could not stay. <br /> <br />He was wealthy and influential only a few years ago <br />He had ninety five employees and people looked up to Joe <br />And his friends were in the many but now his friends are only few <br />And some he thought were mates in good times were those he really never knew. <br /> <br />He has fallen upon hard times a recipient of welfare <br />Living in small flat in basement big Joe the one time millionaire <br />His wife left him and took the children to live with her wealthy lover by the sea <br />She had a taste of the good life and rejected poverty. <br /> <br />He was wealthy and successful and a big name of the town <br />But from top of success summit he came quickly crashing down <br />Now he know who his true friends are and now he know more about life <br />And the truest friend he thought that he had after all is not his wife. <br /> <br />He had influence and money but the good times did not last <br />And we learn from experience when we remember the past <br />And he will be all the wiser when his past he will recall <br />For the mates he counted on then were not his mates after all.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/big-joe-the-one-time-millionaire/
