Liberation
There’s a big house
And inside that big house, you’ve built a little cage
A pretty little cage
It has gold bar railings and foam floors
There’s no padlock on the doors
Yet you refuse to step out
You think it’s your house
You think that’s where you are meant to be
Because you’ve built up this pretty cage for yourself with flawed ideals and limiting words
You’ve told yourself- I can do “this” but “that” is beyond me. “That” I cannot do
And so you’ve built this house, this cage full of “that”
One day, you unknowingly do one of the things you’ve told yourself you cannot do
Now you’ve turned one “that” into “this”
All of a sudden, one bar is snapped into two halves- broken
You can now put your head out of the cage because you’ve created room
You’ve given yourself permission to venture out of this pretty cage that you built
You do this Slowly
It takes a long time, yet you continue to do it slowly
Because there’s no rush, neither is there a timeline to meet
Because that’s the only way you can properly dismantle ingrained limitations
You break one bar out of place, you pause, you regroup your thoughts and then you challenge yourself again to venture out
And finally, the bars of the pretty cage have all fallen down around you and you smile at yourself
You are proud of your efforts. Proud of your tenacity. Proud of your consistency.
And then you step out, into freedom
You step yet into another cage, a bigger one this time
But this time, this time you know you’ll make it out again
You’ve built capacity now
You know you can do it
So you step out and step in confidently
Fearing nothing and no one, trusting in yourself
Leaning into self and leaning on your higher power
