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.

[Kristine]

At first, I just kind of, laughed at this thinking "wow, one line? alllright." But then I read it a few more times, and it really did get me thinking.

[Jessie.]

lol, one lined? awesome. right to the point.

[Kellius the Genius]

You are so right on this.

[Jessica]

Will this be back soon? I was looking forward to reading it. Everyone else in their comments sound impressed by this work, and I would love to see it myself.

[poetsblade]

like your message....truth

[x_never_had_never_owned..]

Deep

[laughingwolf]

ponderful points, my friend... and very well wrought!

[Dianne]

Legacy, this is impressive, it is so moving and thought provoking. I love your writing style and I usually have a hard time with poetry, but this just speaks to me. I've been there, I am there. Knowing that if I just understand my self better I will be less likely to mistake the ugly reflections of me, for you!

[Loretta Dawn]

There are several things I like about this poem, but what I enjoyed most is the ending - "I must vanish to... know who you are." Meditate with this in mind.

It should be a selfless act to get to know and understand others. And in doing so, you will grow, develop, and truly understand new aspects of yourself.

[Jonathan Gallagher]

Thoughts spill from my mind from you verbal exposition. Thank you for this. I like the style and I enjoy the thoughts and feeling you have put into this piece of work.