Know Who You Are

Is this a possibility... in Knowing Who We Are, do you think we should take the time to understand others, before investing in our own?

Understanding who we are?

As a young child I was faced with many circumstances which stretched ‘who I was’ at an age when baseball, snowballs and candy should have consumed me.

 

How are we to assist, teach or even lend a hand to another or for that matter given the right when we truly do not understand who we are?

Do we lend an ear?  Or just keep Talking?

Understanding Who We Are, could this expose us for who we truly are?

 

The future moves into the past…

 

 

Know Who You Are

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Facing our Fears – Is all, but a mirror image

One we refuse to see - one we refuse to acknowledge?

 

I claim no acceptance in fostering appreciation

Encompassing emotions, other than my own

Elapsed time, this I can-not proclaim.

 

Guilty I am… Immersing ‘my being’ in the past

The lifting of boundaries (through Love and Understanding)

Offered in abundance… “This eludes me.”

 

Where have we lost such pluralisms in life?

Why do we wish to ex-change the reflections of who we are?

 

Without values we have no foundation

Our future should not, and must not, be transmogrified

(Because of our past)

 

Eyes of first impressions lost in judgment

Casting of shadows, tossing blame

Why must we quench our thirst from the well of hatred?

Who are we to judge without knowledge, or out of fear?

  

Thoughts become nothing more than reflections

History will - recall voices within our diverse past

 

When we really speak the words ‘Thank You’ ‘I Love You’ ‘I ‘Appreciate You’ ‘I am Truly Sorry’ are they really filled with the meanings they deserve?

A message conveyed or perhaps ‘lesson to be learned’

 

Looking back – moving forward

Beyond Cognition, reflections now dissolved

 Image of another becomes clear

I must vanish to…

Know Who {You} Are…

  

© 2007 Legacy

Reviews

[Bailey Ann]

Wow, it leaves me thinking of a lot of questions I have to ask myself. And you're right, why are we still so teribly prejudice, always angry and upset over the silliest little things. And I totally agree with Demyra there that sometimes we say things like I love you without even thinking it. I know I do it all the time, mostly to friends and family but I say it so that, should anything ( Goddess Forbid) happen to either of us, they know that they were loved.

[thibodeaux]

IAM SPEECHLESS AFTER READING THIS AND I HARDLY EVER GET SPEECHLESS HONESTLY I DO!!! I HAVE READ IT TWICE NOW TRYING TO FIND THE WORDS TO EXPRESS WHAT I THOUGHT OF YOUR PEOM!!
SO ALL I CAN SAY IS IT WAS FANTASTIC AND AMAZING< YOU PROBABLY HEARD THAT A LOT> BUT WHAT CAN I SAY ITS HARD TO BE ORIGINAL WHEN I AM SPEECHLESS!!!
YOU ARE TRUELY AN AMAZING WRITER HONESTLY!
WTH LVE
THIBODEAUX

[St. James]

a verbal image of what seems to forever perplex us, i love this piece. "do unto others..." maybe this is too general of an overstanding but it is the only way to love. the moment that a person begins to consider the thoughts and feelings of another is the point in which they begin to love. Who am i, begins with who u are, which unlocks the doors of who we are. those doors lead to a happy home full of love but... but i guess bein outside in the streets is a lot less scary. a lot less shocking and amazing. that was such a great way to start this piece cuz its the first thing we gotta do... "face our fears".

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

This was a great read, A lot of the things you have said I live by truly I do if you knew me you would know I speak the truth. I think love and acceptance are two of the most important things in life if everyone thought that way in some form or another could you imagine the difference in the world ?

Understanding Who I Am by "Knowing Who You Are" I love that it couldn't have been said better !

When we really speak the words
'Thank You'~'I Love you'~'I Appreciate You'~'I am Truly Sorry'
Are they Truly filled with the meanings they deserve?

Just beautiful you speak such truth I hope your message opens the eyes of the world

[Ali B]

Eyes of first impressions lost in judgment
Casting of shadows, tossing blame
Why must we quench our thirst from the well of hatred?
Who are we to judge without knowledge, or out of fear?

all to often first impressions are the only ones that people see through. and all to often those eyes are altogether wrong. i clearly felt the meaning of your poem in every line, its an awesome work!

[Caitlin Harter]

That was wonderful, very insightful. I like towards the end where you speak about meaning what we say. I think thats something we should all think about.

[Fantasyfairy]

That was an amazing write. The poem is so well written. How one should be thinking and how they are made to think are often so very different to each other which is sad if true. XX

[Dawn]

When we really speak the words
'Thank You'~'I Love you'~'I AppreciateYou'~'I am Truly Sorry'
Are they Truly filled with the meanings they deserve?

How true is that. How sad is that.

[Charlotte Young]

I like it a lot. I could read it over and over and ponder and re-ponder the meaning. Good job.

[Rachel M. Benson]

This piece is the kind of literature a good writer and a thoroughly reader looks for because it is thought provoking and insightful. It also has a sense of mystery surrounding the exact meaning. Students, poets, teachers and enlightened people could spend hours contemplating what exactly you were trying to say and what they believe is being revealed when they read it for themselves; what these concepts, ideas, and words mean to them when they come together as you have written them.

There are a thousands small instances in my own life, daily blink-of the eye- moments when I gasp as if the breath was knocked out of me, the mirror standing before me, and I question what I know, what I believe, and what I have become evolving from the experiences of my small life. This poems seems to scream "There is more than meets than eye and at first glance" as clich� as that is. Thee hidden secrets behind the poets pen, that have provoked such thoughts to come together, a poet who has such life experiences that have altered the traditional view of those who have had a "normal" acceptable childhood, a poet who might have had experience only a few of us have. They have the ability to stand apart from it, and are able to evaluate not only themselves, but those experiences without being consumed by them every waking instance of their lives.

I enjoyed reading this piece and piece above it; it was the food I craved for my mind as of late and I applaud the poet for their ability to express themselves so accurately and their experiences.

[Lady Pariah]

I relate to the ending so very much at the moment. Takin' a step back from all but neccessity, work and takin' care of home etc. to kind of fast for my soul. Vanish for a bit so to speak. Clear my mind some...