Of the thousand ideas

Of the thousand ideas,

let the ones you live by be your own.

You will define and redefine,

your own personal meaning of “freedom”

many times in this life.

Those words settle down deep

into my heart and soul

and stay there for awhile.

Freedom may be another word for self-honesty,

honestly, that is what truly matters in this life.

That we are able to make peace with ourselves,

that we are able to shed the cloak of a thousand ideas

that do not belong to us

and walk away from the prison of other’s expectations

of how we should act, speak, and think.

The body is too precious an organanism

to be enslaved that way,

The mind, far too sharp to be confined by a glass ceiling of ideas,

far beneath its own capacity for reason and thought.

Finally, the words you speak, must always be your own,

no thoughts of others can ever hope to express

what wonders reside in your soul or your heart.