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.

[Scirrocco]

If this doesn't make a person think then they should go back and read it again. I'm guilty of a lot of the things you mentioned. We all are.... Sometimes I have to stop myself and ask what the hell am I doing or saying. My parents always told me that I shouldn't say things unless I truly mean them. Still I find myself saying things at times just to hurt someone without really meaning what I said. At the same time though I will say things just to cheer someone up if they're feeling down. I've also learned through out my life the words "I love you" aren't meant to be taken lightly. I feel too many people just throw the phrase around to the point it becomes meaningless. This I am not guilty of...

This was great for the reason I couldn't help but think about what you wrote. I like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Trouble Smurff]

Excellent. Makes you stop and think about things.

[Tina Odisho]

This was an outstanding read. And i also agree with you we should be able to understand someone else before actually learing to understand ourselves.

[Nic]

Very true, most people do not mean when they say such things as i love you and sorts. Nor most people do not truely know who they are, always something everyone else seems to want to be.
I liked it very much, good luck with your other writings.
Nic

[Jaime Luthe]

A nice read. It has indeed made me realize there are some questions I not only need to ask of myself but of those around me. People often speak things with most genuine of intentions but alas leaving one to ponder what is truly at the heart of their words.
GREAT JOB!
PEACE n INK

[Mystic Dreams]

I do truly believe you have to know yourself before you can really understand and accept others (their sameness and their differences). This is such a strong poem and I feel that, unless a reader is really trying to find themselves, they may dismiss the true meaning of it.

Wonderful write!

Mystic

PS Sorry it has taken so long to respond but I have been offline for 4 weeks

[Ann Funk]

yes, i agree. i think we should be able to understand and know someone else before we can really know ourselves. you've made a very good point with this one.

n___n

[Mickey Ellison]

The young brave would sit,
Leggs crossed with out food or water
For days
Alone except for the wind and sun and rain
A vision, his quest
One that would name him
And claim for him the Great Spirit's blessing
The fast sometimes led to pain
And always to a journey
To the place of the spirit world
There the demons he faced
Would make it clear
They were his own doing
For the greatest fear the brave must bear
Is meeting the dread of who we are.

[charisa05]

This piece is very profound.... i love your use of vocabulary!!!!

[Pitta S Dev]

itssssssssssssssssssssss true