PETALS BEHIND BARS: Whispers of the wonded child

Childhood is meant to bloom like a garden — full of fragrance wonder and sunlight. Yet in the name of discipline success and perfection we often build invisible bars around those tender petals. Within these bars laughter fades into silence play becomes pressure and imagination slowly loses its wings. “Petals Behind Bars” is a gentle cry for those silenced smiles — a poetic reflection on how the purest years of life is often chained by the weight of expectations. These verses seek to open those bars to let the petals breathe again and to remind us that childhood was never meant to be a prison but a paradise of freedom joy and discovery.