Cage

Hey Blue!
I really liked this poem! It grabbed my attention very quickly, and you did a very good job with metaphors. The flow of the words was great, it kept a nice beat. I only found one mistake. Near the end, when you say he "turn" away, it should be "turns" away.
Good job!

You have rhythm (most of the time) and a careful control of syllables and rhyme is being attempted every other line (which is questionable: gimmicky); that said, the poem reads too clearly and plainly.

What sort of drama really drives people crazy? Makes them question their life? Makes them question their outlook and direction in their career and mindset? Also, what character and voice will a reader really identify with on a personal level?

King --> Feels caged --> Use Kingly imagery --> Make cage setting --> Woe is King --> King is "shackled"

But how? With words like freedom and shackled? What stops the king from tossing the crown right off? The best stanza you have is the fourth, but the purpose of this tower, of the scratching "of the sky", what's the logic here? IS the castle an embodiment of the king? FUNDAMENTALLY it cannot be here because the King is caged by his position, you're relying on the King feeling alienated and forced inside of something hostile, artificial; I would advise making it obvious that the king is THE castle or the castle is most definitely NOT the king.

Your ability to make me feel truly gripped and impacted lies not in sculpting some miserable monarch's oh-so awful pampered life in a big, nice, secure castle; no, it lies in his being born in a hierarchical system based on "divine decrees" and age old traditionalism to which he has become tired of, disenchanted with, but to fulfill the duties of his position, cannot break them; why? Because he would shake the foundations of the society itself and/or "insult" his god.

You have bare-bones now, pack some meat onto the poor thing.

Wow. This is really good! I've always wanted to be able to write like that; I still have a lot of practicing to do, and even then I doubt I'll be able to write anything near as good. You are a talented writer, and use great imagery (as a lot of people have already said). Keep writing; I want to read more!

This is really good and it actually rhymed which was nice. It was pretty obvious but I think it is reasonable that a king should long for freedom. All kings are miserable any way, so that makes sense. Nice job with the rhyme scheme!