Brooke

Sipichkochaps@mastodon.social

<p>### To Be Free</p><p>To be free, you must first break— <br />the chains that taught you how to bend, <br />the walls you built for safety’s sake, <br />the silence sworn to never end.</p><p>You must break the glass of fear, <br />the lock beneath your tongue, <br />the version of yourself kept near <br />by every “should” and “must” and “wrong.”</p><p>And when the pieces hit the ground, <br />don’t mourn the shape you knew— <br />freedom is not found unbroken; <br />it is built from what breaks through.</p>