Break the cage

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Dear daughters, break the rules

that taught your wings to fear the sky,

You were not born for silent wounds,

nor made to live and slowly die.


Break the rule that calls it grace

to hide your pain and softly bend,

A voice inside your trembling chest

was born to rise, not just pretend.


Break the rule that weighs your worth

by vermilion or wedding chains,

No sacred thread is greater than

the soul that breathes beneath your veins.


Break the rule that says your hands

were only made to hold the weight,

To carry jars of bitter tears

and call it your appointed fate.


You do not owe a debt of blood

to ancestors who chose to stay,

Your loyalty belongs to her-

the girl you were just yesterday.


To free yourself is to go back

through every branch of your own tree,

And cut the ropes of every ghost

who never had the chance to flee.


You are not meant to guard forever

the comfort of the ones who break you,

A home that steals your light away

is not a home that deserves you.


If love becomes a cage of thorns,

then leave before your spirit fades,

No woman should be asked to bloom

inside a prison built by shame.


They will call you difficult

the day you choose yourself instead,

Because a fearless woman shakes

the ancient kingdoms built on dread.


They praised the daughters who stayed quiet,

who carried sorrow without sound,

But questioned every woman brave

enough to stand her bleeding ground.


They’ll tell you that the softest wood

is easiest for them to bend,

But do not let them sand you down

until you have no edge to lend.


A tortured daughter pleases all,

she keeps society asleep,

But one who walks away from pain

awakens truths buried too deep.


Why save a bond that kills your soul

a little more with every day?

That single question from a woman

makes centuries of power sway.


Dear daughters, now refuse the weight

of silence handed down through years,

Step past the borders drawn for you

by frightened laws and borrowed fears.


The day a woman lifts her face

and stops apologizing for pain,

That very day the walls of power

begin to crack and fall like rain.


So break the rules that buried you,

choose freedom though the road feels long,

And history will remember you

not broken - but brave and strong.

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