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.

[Lisa J "The Rose&q..]

Profound and enlightening.

[Eve]

Sometimes is it hard to look past who we are to see who "you" are, this expresses a sentiment of wisdom that all can benefit from, great write.

[France (Tyz)]

Excellent writing. Very good read

[elizabeth]

Hi Legacy, this is so beautiful. Well expressed emotions from the heart. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find out who we are. You have put the words togather so well. Very well written....thank you, elizabeth

[GrooveSinga]

Good, valid topic here. I like to think that who we are starts out when we're children; whether we're allowed to be who we are, nurtured to be who we can become or stunted by some others who are transferring their grudges in not becoming who they wanted to be onto their children.

This is my contribution, a writing from quite some time ago.


YIELD

In this life I see a man;
A worn man, a yielded man.

I see a woman;
A woman with acceptance and little resistance,
A woman who will yield.

In light I see a child;
New and unaffected;
Drinking and thinking.
Taught little but to learn from himself.

This child will yield much that is glorious.


S.Jehle/93 05 17

[Sonny]

This was a thought provioking read. It encompasses many of the same things running through my head when I can't shut off my brain. I enjoyed this very much.

[Antonio Aguilar]

A complicated poem. I had to read it a couple of times. I had just woken up and had no coffee yet. It looked more like prose the first time I read it. The second time though I caught the poetry. It's pretty good.

[jessica]

legacy this poem is GREAT And has alot of meaning and truth behind it...
very well written...

[Cold Coffee Magazine]

I loved the formate almost as much as the words. Great job.

Dave

[Jennifer Ryan]

This definitely has motivational undertones. You could almost put this up on your bathroom mirror and it could be come a daily mantra for you. I hope you follow your own advice.