Life gets so serious, heavy, and glum, 😩
With taxes to file and meetings to come. 📑
The world is a mess! The news makes you frown, 🌍😖
Your to-do list is long, and it’s weighing you down. 📋😵
Bills to be paid! Emails to send! 💰📧
The cycle repeats—will it ever end? 🔄
But what if, dear friend, you could flip it around? 🔄🤸
What if more fun was the treasure you found? 💎🎊
What if you danced when you got out of bed? 💃🕺
Or made silly faces or stood on your head? 🤪🤸♂️
What if you colored outside of the lines, 🎨✏️
And laughed until tears blurred out of your eyes? 😂🤣
What if you played—like the you from before? 🛝
The one who made forts and rolled on the floor. 🏰🛋️
Who splashed in the puddles, ran wild and free, 🌧️🏃♂️
Who thought, “Life is a playground—just watch and see!” 🎠
What if you painted? Or sculpted? Or sang? 🎶🎭
Or banged on some drums—BANGITY BANG! 🥁
What if you wiggled, and wobbled, and spun? 🌀
What if you allowed yourself pleasure and fun? 😏🔥
What if, instead of just checking off lists, ✅✍️
You kissed a bit more—oh, yes!—and got kissed? 😘💋
What if your bed wasn’t just for a snooze, 🛏️😴
But a magical place where you let yourself loose? 😉🌟
Lose track of the time, get lost in the heat, 🔥⌛
Play in the sheets like you played in the street! 🚗🎉
For joy isn’t distant, it’s right where you stand, 💖
It lives in your heart, and it lives in your hands. 🙌
Fun makes you lighter, it melts all the stress, 😌✨
It boosts your whole brain (and leads to success!). 🧠💡
It helps you connect, it tickles your soul, 🫂💞
It makes you feel whole—a most wonderful goal! 🌟
So play, my dear friend, in all that you do, 🛝🪁
Be silly, be sexy, be wildly YOU! 😜🔥
For life isn’t something you have to get through—
It’s waiting for you to make it brand-new! 🎆
Now go forth and giggle, go forth and explore, 😂🌍
Go dance, go create, go tumble and soar! 💃🎨✈️
Go have an adventure, go howl at the moon, 🌙🐺
Go play like a kid—don’t grow up too soon! 🎠🎈
-Forest
Therapist, Fun & Pleasure Coach
More Poems:
The Invitation
Rebelling Into Me
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