Don’t Mistake the Cocoon for the Cage

✨On the Alchemy of Undoing✨

Filed under: the difference between stillness and captivity

Galaxies rehearse in miniature. 🪐✨

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Don’t Mistake the Cocoon for the Cage

A poem written by Rebecca M. Bell

There are chambers in life that close around us like nightfall.
We feel the hush and call it exile.
We feel the narrowing and call it loss.

But not every silence is a prison.
Not every closing is a curse.
Some silences are wombs.
Some shadows are scaffolds.
Some endings are beginnings rearranged.

The cocoon and the cage share a silhouette—
both enclose, both darken, both strip the world away
until we can hear only our own pulse.