Thoughts on Free Thought

[kolemath]

Thanks for sharing, Sean!  I love this proclamation of autonomy.  I've posted a few comments below.

I'm free to think and do as I please.--the poem maintains a consistent alternating stress pattern for most of the poem, except for this opening line? might this line be revised for consistent meter?
Unbound and freed by Socrates- --how does Socrates fit into the rest of the poem? might a few allusions make this connection stronger?
To live and dream and spread the word
Of lessons often left unheard.
For from within, one finds their peace.

I'm free to think and do as I please.
No walls or chains or locks or keys
Can suffocate or dominate
My innate need to cogitate. --again, how does Socrates fit in if this desire is innate?
For from within, one finds their peace. --mixing pronoun case here: on‌e=singular, their=plural
strong statement, that external barriers can't constrain inner wisdom/peace

I'm free to think and do as I please.
Opposing vile tyrannies- --does the content of these two lines match? does doing as one pleases (leisure-like) fit with protest?
A call to all, though few will heed. --this is my favorite line
By my own will I intercede. --intercede what?
For from within, one finds their peace.

I won’t be bound by foreign will.
No rule so bold and brash and shrill
Shall box my precious sanctity --I like that 'box' has followed the prison imagery from the second stanza
Of individuality.
By my own will I have found peace.

Thanks for sharing! -Kole