prison of freedom
jerry KWATCHEY@kwatcheyjerry128608
6 days ago
#poetry
A SIMU CINEMATIC REFLECTION
“THE SHELL WE WALK AWAY FROM”
In the quiet spaces between who we are
and who we hope to become,
there lies a truth we often outrun
a soft light, a subtle warning,
a reflection waiting patiently to be seen.
This… is a cinematic reflection.
Some women celebrate the moment they step out of the “shell” society placed around them
the guidance, the boundaries, the caution,
the inherited wisdom passed from mother to daughter.
To them, that shell feels outdated.
Restrictive.
Unnecessary in a century where freedom is currency
and independence is proof of strength.
So they push it aside.
Step away from restraint.
Embrace a life where they can do whatever they choose,
where mirroring the recklessness of men is called equality,
where accountability is optional,
and consequences feel distant
almost fictional.
Freedom tastes sweet when you have not yet met its cost.
But what they may not realize is this:
The “shell” was never built to imprison them.
It was built to protect them.
A structure carved from generations of experience,
from scars they did not have to earn,
from fires they did not have to walk through.
It was wisdom disguised as limitation.
Security mistaken for suffocation.
A compass misread as a cage.
And so they walk bare into a world
that praises liberation
but does not shield the liberated.
Only when the storm arrives
when choices echo back,
when consequences gather,
when vulnerability becomes visible
does the whisper rise within them:
“Why did no one tell me I needed the shell?”
It was told.
But freedom can be loud,
and wisdom often speaks softly.
In every journey, clarity comes not from the noise of the world,
but from the stillness within it.
May your reflections guide you,
and your truth find you.
A Reflection from the SIMU Collection.
