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.

[blaqheart11]

I am speachless...

[_////---Elektrik Phanto..]

excellent read. a poem within a philosophy within a truth within a poem. i agree, words cannot truly convey intended meaning of the speaker. words are in constant motion, held differently by each individual. every word brings a disimilar image to mind, and a sentence is nothing more than a play being written by a different author, where the listener is that author.

[Nae Nae]

This is really deep. And it really leaves a lot of questions. i can tell this is very hartfelt a meaningful. Great job ... Thanks for posting

[Naomi Montana Walsh]

insightful..sometimes I just think of shaking myself like and etch-a-sketch and seeing everything as a blank slate and I wonder, how it would look untainted..I truly enjoyed this well written poem.

[Eternal Hero]

This is a very sincere poem...Something that many people can relate to whether they realize it or not. I personally relate to the reference to the past. I seem to reminisce often, missing the past more than the present. But when I ask myself the question, "Would I change anything if I could go back?" I don't know the answer...because there are things I have today I would never have gotten without traveling the paths I did.

Very well written with a strong voice behind it.

[TeenRomance]

You, sir, are an amazing poet :)

[Tom Benson]

However it was approached and in whatever line the key here I thought was searching for and recognising sincerity. You are of course quite right - how many times a day, a week or month do we say things that have been said as a response, not as a sincere acknowledgement or greeting. Once again I found myself reading questions rather than statements - not a bad thing. Good work - again. Tom

[better off]

i like this, it is true, thanx for the freind request. I will try to be kind as i can, i do like your write here holds true

[winter]

This was a well-written poem that I will highly reccommend to friends to read. I wonder many of the things that you mentioned in it. I especially loved the lines "When we really speak the words "I Love You" "I" "Appreciate You" "I am truly sorry" are they really filled with the meanings they deserve?" Now each time when I will say them I will have to truly think about if I am just saying it or if it has a meaning when I say it. Great Job.

[enuf]

I love this poem my sentiments we might be humans however we have a long way to go before we become beings xx