Playtime

Should I work? or should I play?

They said “you’ll grow up some day”

But as these days just waste away,

It seems like it’s all work no play.

Is it normal to feel this way?

A playful soul tucked away

In a world that says to work all day

Work and work and work away

And then there will be time for play

But when I am to work all day

I fear the play has gone away

For good you say? For good they say.

“We told you you’d grow up one day”

And now it’s gone and slipped away

And how I miss it every day

The days where I could sit and play.

. . . . .

I wish that it was not this way

But the play won’t pay a wage

So I am locked up in this cage

Because I’m not the one who is to gauge

What should and should not pay a wage

So I hope it’s just a stage

A stage that will just fade away

And maybe one day will be the day

That I don’t have to work that day

No more work only play

But until I see that day

It’s work and work and work away

Edit: typos

Edit 2: comments inspired me to write another verse

https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/yeeaae/you/itygwu4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/ycocad/perish/itnicgh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3