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.

[The Lady Speaks]

I related with this poem, I find myself drifting away from the real me to satisfy others. Thanks this made me take a deeper look at my life.

[Beautiful Disaster_33]

An excellent piece my friend
This is very thought provoking, it can be hard (atleast for me) to step out of the shadows of how others see me`n find who I am.
Daily I struggle yet daily I try
Excellent read

[STARDUST]

Im really feeling this poem right now, it speaks the truth. It's deep.
well done.

[James R. Lawrence]

Love the title--it's actually a repeating line in my novel, Echoes in the Wind. Your poem is very passionate, another original poem!

[OrAnGe SmArTiEs]

Wow!
Im glad u asked me 2 read this, it makes me think of many things.
I think about the fact that people say simple words that mean so much to the listener but the speaker does't mean it that much at all. Like when people say "I love you" when they really mean is "I like u alot"
I like this very much!!!
Its a favorite!

[Sparrow]

Learning who you are should be the first lesson we learn as we become conscious of ourselves, unfortunately some of us take a long time to realize the significance it can play in our lives.

One part I particularly adored was the part about meaning what you say. People so often say things without realizing the full power of the words, what they should carry behind them. Language is a beautiful thing if you take the time to appreciate it in everyday life. Another valuable lesson in life. :)

Wonderful piece is basically what I'm saying (lol)

[X]

truly an amazing piece of work.
i love that it's basically talking about human nature and how we aren't as perfect as people like to think.
we judge unfairly and do things that should never even be thought about.
i also really enjoyed that you mentioned the fact that people second-guess themselves and don't do things they'd like to for fear of rejection.
i'm assuming that's what you meant in the poem.
anyway.
great work.
powerful piece.
hope to see more.

[BelieveInCelia]

"Responsibility is graced upon many of us at an early age...youth (the world) is seen differently through those eyes than those where responsibility has reserved itself for a later time.

If each individual were true to 'self' and embraced an understanding and acceptance of 'self', than I believe there would be no one to cast the first stone." Celia

Very insightful writing.



Celia

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Some good points: imaginative in places, it sounded nice! Melodic, perhaps. Lots of ornamentation going on
For me this is a very clever piece of writing

I thought there were some very strong ideas here, but they were rarely expressed well. For example, the form is awful. The flow is erratic, the little fluidity there is is constantly bombarded by staccato phrases and at times rather naive questions
e.g. 'Why must we quench our thirst from the well of hatred?'
I don't see how this line (and others like it) can possibly contribute anything of merit

If this chromaticism was deliberate it is completely innappropriate for this material

I think you are a very competent writer
(By the way, I do not follow the 95% system. 50% is a good score)

[RareRed]

GREAT write!!!!! Gives people so much to think about!