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.

[Working Class Scarecrow]

reminds me of a book i read a year and a half ago or so
"Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialog" by Neal Donald Walch.

sounds like you read it in fact...

[TL Boehm]

awesome poetry here. to know who we are - sometimes we must become mirrors....sometimes we must become invisible...there is so much going on in this piece. Even as poets - are words are at times veils.

[Bishonen]

My eye run over your lines and I begin to chuckle. I laugh for the person who believes that those words mean something anymore. Once some of the most stunning phrases now are tossed away like a used condom with no real thought. You say "Know Who {You} Are" and yet you wish to disappear which casuses confusions that complicate this story. When we run we only leave ourself, not friends or family or troubles or death. To think people are surpised when they return to "themselves" and feel different. They haven't gone and changed but died. Sometimes they bring someone to replace but other times...life is only ment to live for those who want to live every moment.

[Ellie W. Montreal]

I'm sorry; I haven't been on so much, but for a reason. I, Ellie Montreal, am grounded. But I am reviewing your work to please you (:
VERY GOOD!
I love it. I like how it's based on the past, & how it bring forth something in the future. Very nice. Also, my favorite part was this:

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?

I admire this. It leaves something for me to think about, & maybe even share with people who would normally disagree with this. Nice.

[John Wayne A.]

I've always said how can a person claim to know(love) anyone else if they do not know(love) themselves? The answer is you can't. However, once you know who you are, and by knowing yourself having a way to know others, the question becomes who do you want to be? Does it not? After you decide who you want to be you can attempt to change yourself into what you believe you should be. The problem then becomes keeping the knowledge of who are you when you are constantly changing. I believe introspection is key in keeping sight of yourself.

Anyways this has given me a lot to think about, I may just write something pertaining to exactly what I have written in this review.

[kristyn=]]

Great. Makes you think about things. I loved it.

[Dead Angel]

very insightful and full of meaning! really leaves the reader asking themselves questions. its always difficult to figure out who we are, we always come up with different answers but how do we pick the right one out of all of them. this was very creative, thanx for sharing. :)

[Kamisy Morricai]

This poem reflects on a lot of issues that i see every day. issues that happen to me. There have been some many times in my life that I have just been frozen solid with anguish in me, for I know that, it is wrong to be so vile to another human being. So vile to think that you are the greatest thing there is and that anyone and everyone else who isn't ou, is wrong and should be treated unfairly. Even more grotesque is how they never seem to listen, nor understand your point or even begin to admit to thei own faults. And yet, they still percieve themselves as being right, as if they'd never commited a sin. A person could not even know their attackers name, never even seen their face before that fated day, and yet, they are still the victim. The human race should be moving forward, not dropping like stones into a river, only to be lost in time and eroded away by the current. No, we should be the river itself, forever moving forward, progressing onwards to a greater and more openly accepting world.

[DP19384]

Wow...

[Ms. MoneyPenny]

Great breakdown into the human soul of a child!!!! I LIKE THIS ONE!!!!