After watching Great Expectations, I was inspired by how the film shows that context shapes a person’s life. To express my thoughts, I wrote a poem that captures my reflections on the freedom that we actually have. I hope you’ll like it!
CARVED BY CONTEXT
We live in the squeeze of the years
were born to,
each one a thread tied hard to
our days. When we arrive, it shapes
who we are:
the past calling out, the future still dark.
Freedom sounds grand,
but its created with rules,
the weight of old choices
pressing our backs.
And Where we are lands us,
fixed in the world,
in the towns we know,
on the roads we walk.
Streets mark our steps,
as though they decide
how fast we can walk,
how far we can go.
But How we live?
Its set in small ways,
like hands shaping clay into what they know best.
The things we are taught,
what we dare to want,
the hopes and fears
slipped to us like whispers.
We grow in these lines, molded and made,
half-dreaming of freedom we might never have.
The freedom we taste,
its just conditional breath,
shaped by context, by clock, by borderlines drawn.
Freedom exists?
Yes, but only inside the frame we`re given
the lens we wear.
We might never be free from our roots and the weights,
but we can press on the edges,
dare the frame to bend,
not to break, perhaps,
but to make some space
enough to step lightly
enough to be seen.
Carved by context, but try not to be consumed.
MARIA JULA
MARIA JULA ESTE ELEVĂ ÎN XI A, CLASA PROF. LAURA LAZĂR. ACEST POEM NE-A FOST ÎNCREDINȚAT PRIN AMABILITATEA D-NEI FLORINA DĂNILĂ, PROFESOARĂ DE LIMBA ENGLEZĂ A MARIEI, CĂREIA ÎI MULȚUMIM.
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