Nov. 4 Poem A Day Challenge

Today's prompt:  take the phrase "Maybe (blank)," replace the (blank) with a word or phrase, and write a poem using that new phrase as your title.

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Maybe the world
isn't as hard as we were
led to believe.  Maybe,
just maybe,
it's all just a game,
a party,
a good time.
What if we don't have to
slave away doing things we
hate?  What if we can just
enjoy life and living without
dealing with the hard stuff?

How can it be so easy?
We all know it isn't.
We remember what it was like
growing up, barely a care,
feeling the sunshine and rain
with equal pleasure,
playing and playing and playing
until we were too tired to even keep
our eyes open...

Maybe the world isn't easy anymore.
Maybe it never was.
How can we go back to that time?
Was it ever really real to begin with?