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 are 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.