I thought of all the times I felt free and as though the tainted structures of society could not reach me. I thought about the practices I enact to recreate that feeling. I thought about what else could make me feel that way and where I might find it. I thought about what freedom is at its core. Then I connected these ideas. This poem serves as a convergence of the paths I take to freedom by drawing a line between love and violence. More specifically, the thin line we must walk towards liberation that requires us to grasp both things while weighing them against our heart. Breaking cages is violent, but it is also love, and love is freedom.