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.

[K.F. Draven]

Very interesting. Your poem makes me think a lot. Great subject-

[Donna DeLong Matthews a..]

Oh I do believe face'n ones self with pure honesty is one of the hardest
tasks we have in life yet you are so correct until
we can do an honest self inventory and be able to look
in that mirror of life looking beyond the outer shell and
deep with in we can not even begin to know who or what
we are. I had to know me before I could know Thee...

Wonderful Wonderful write
Hugs
Donna

[trinityluv122]

I am at a loss for words with this writing, you are magnificient. I love this poetry so much, there should be a wall of fame for it.

Lara

[soulsearching]

not sure if any of us knows who we are, as time passes we change so much that one day you wake up and look back and you wonder hey was that me? very nice.

[Traces]

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

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

These lines stopped me dead in my tracks as I read this powerfully packed full of wisdom poem. To Know Who (You) Are... is the beginning of a journey that should never end as we grow and become all that we can be. Holly

[Violeta]

I like the feeling it left me. Kind of makes me nostalgic of the few memories I have of my childhood. damn, that sounded like an old woman speaking. Anyway, I like the reflexions and thanks for sharing your work.

[LadyLove]

Facing our fears is looking into a mirror and seeing a broken distored image we cannot fix or seeing ourselves as we are with our imperfections and somehow accepting it as is. Either way, fears follow us throughout our lives and we alone must judge whether the image we see, distored, broken or not, is acceptable to ourselves so much so that no amount of judgement can shatter it further. When we can carry this image of ourselves honestly in our lives and hearts with faith then we can accept the words I love you, I appreciate you and all others, without harm to our senses of being if they turn out to be false. A tall order, but a true measure of our self-worth is who we are when we accept ourselves and our capacity to remain true to another as well with equal acceptance. How we treat others is how we extend the reflection of ourselves too; Even if they hurt us.

[Marvin Lewis Jr.]

Its an unflinching thought provoking piece...
I really like the way it feels and I look forward to reading more!

[Debbie_Philly]

This just enveloped me.... what an amazing , deep and passionate write. So much truth in your words... words we should all take in and listen to. This is just simply amazing and it moved me to tears,... thank you !!!

[Russell Rose]

Quite a work of poetry. It hits you where you live. Excellent.

J Russell Rose