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.

[copperconan]

i reckon knowing who we are would be somewhat based on knowing what we stand for,,

I say kudos to what you have written

copperconan

[fallendemonofmercy]

this is what i think about whenever i meet another person, see someone on the street, when something is slightly 'off' about them. whether they have a limp, a too - long nose, a dark, multicoloured black eye i think 'what have they been through?' 'what led them to make the decisions that brought them there?'
i, too seem to have grown up long, so long before my time.
amazing.

[Foxtrot206]

This is amazing. I often wonder these things myself. Very eloquent, and beautifully truthful. Love it.

[Jessie12]

haha okay I read this poem! I don't really read poems! Book, Novels, Story's are more my thing... so yeah. But this is what i think.
It's good, good topic, deep and makes you think over... It's moving, it can change people. thats what i think anywayz.
but sometimes I think life wouldnt be so great without the down hill side.
That's just my little bit.
thanks for the add btw.
J x

[Hisou_Tenshi]

It's a very thoughtful poem.. I found a few thoughts that I often have as well. You have great skills. I'm glad I got to read it.

[courtney]

wow this is truely an amazing peice of work. it leaves me asking who i want to be rather to who i am right now.

[Lexie James]

This is a great poem. The subject is an important one. You have me thinking and I'll be asking myself many questions. People do tend to say things out of politeness, no meaning is left behind words... I really love this piece. Thank you.
Lexie

[Tanner Brockwell]

the words must be imbued with all intent! Great write.

[Adelia Alighieri]

Beautiful; I loved your expressions...It seems that somehow or the other, I am vacillating between what I am and what I should be..Hats off!!

[Prospero]

Looking back � moving forward

Beyond Cognition, reflections now dissolved

Image of another becomes clear

I must vanish to�

Know Who {You} Are�

With those last lines, you have captured, in one image, how humanity can begin to realize our purpose for being, why we are here. Until we begin to turn our focus outward, we are bound to lose sight of the need that others have for love. Love is all around us, yet we are always seeking it in the wrong places. Our self-love,("Guilty I am� Immersing 'my being' in the past"), may give us pleasure in the short-run, but we have to keep coming back to get a refill rather than continuing to move forward. Yes, if only we can all simply vanish just so we can realize how totally lovely, lovable, loving the other person truly is!