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.

[.::Cup^E^Cake*RaWr!*::.]

I love this but maybe sometimes it would be better to use more simple words.
U don't have to use a long word to express simple things all the time.
I like it though,it's amazing.
It helps me focus on "Who I am" & who i want to be.

[mysticgmekeepr]

Fear usually ends up being an illusion and a lie. And being willing to truly look in a mirror gives us a glimpse into not only ourselves but humanity. Everything we judge or condem, that very seed likes somewhere in us too, everything we exalt and praise lies also somewhere in us. We usually fail to see how terribly, intricately connected we all are. Nice introspective write.

[Patrick Lee]

I'm forced to think of pop-culture and the televised labeling of people that comes with it. The superficial, the ignorant, the confused all searching for the mold that fits them best, walking around on roads paved with apathy, sharing their emptiness with hallowed out words and false smiles, waving flags of pretense and prejudice, embracing a total disregard for understanding the self. For without understanding the self, one cannot understand others. This is indeed a poem for everyone to read.

[MCS]

Wonderful work..thank you for sharing this...I think it's something that everyone should read...as a form of acknowledgment....Know who we are...look in the mirror...I wish this for everyone.

[Rose Starr]

It's funny how I was just pondering this same notion earlier this evening. I was trying to pinpoint the exact time where my innocence was abandoned. Well, not completely, however, I still do feel it rattle around. But not that child like PURE innocence...not the I love you SO much, and bring all guards down to everything and everyone we meet even strangers, thinking they won't do us harm and we are wide open. I believe as we get older or grow sorta say, learn life's lessons (unfortunately bad ones at times), and try not to forget lifes values it tends to eat away the innocence. me for instance, Mae West said, " I used to be Snow White-but I drifted". All in all great piece of work.

[Rylan Batten]

deeeeep. thought-provoking too, I liked it. I liked the style too, and use of punctuation: it all spiced it up. The intro helped with the meaning as well...thanks for posting, keep it up

[Lisa Hoffman]

I love it!!!

[Judith Gayle Nail]

yes, I can 'see' it and feel your words. VERY GOOD!

[Flow]

Knowing ones self is the beginning of controlling ones self.. this is an excellent interspection piece of awareness.

[Michael]

I know who i am and everybody tells me i'm a good guy but still i don't like myself much. Like your poem though.