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.

[Carrie Montgomery]

"Without values we have no foundation

Our future should not, and must not, be transmogrified

(Because of our past)"
AMEN!
This is an eye-opener...

[SweetPeachesAlways]

" Eyes of first impressions lost in judgment " - yeah...
" A message conveyed or perhaps 'lesson to be learned' " - yeah...

Very nice write!

[Gin Tsubasa]

Wow... that is really deep. I absoloutely love it.
Keep writing. :)

[R]

...deep, and brings to mind the question..of patterns of learned behaviour or true seepage from the soul. Thanks for sharing.

[Kylie]

I appreciate the simple truths of this piece. Each part makes me stop and think about how it applies to me personally. Very well done!

[Ladysue]

A very poignant and thought provoking piece. Strongly written with a very powerful feel. Much thought and depth in this piece. Left me pondering. You speak with wisdom. Great work!

[Kenneth Compton]

I have often asked myself some of those same questions, especially the question about whether or not I truly mean it when I say I'm sorry or I love you, very nice piece.

[Kimmee Jean]

i could say how amazing it is and all that jazz but you have everyone else to tell you that...the form was good, the writing impecable and the writing in general was a good piece...but with all the questions, aren't you going to answer any of them yourself?

[baron]

I believe that I commented on this before the site suffered difficulties so I'm just confirming my appreciation of the piece.

[Jack Bridges]

I don't think I fully got what you were trying to say here. I mean I know poems are supposed to be short. It just leaves me wondering what you were trying to stress because this could be taken to mean alot of things.