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.

[[TaTo]� The Wolf]

Sincerity...
makes me think about almost everything.
I love it.
=)

[Mpotavin]

I guess this is a inner monologue rant? Too many unanswered questions, which I believe are a no no. It makes it hard to distinguish the you in this. Give me your answers. Where are you? What are you doing? Some descriptive elements are needed. This is too vague for my taste and I get the feeling like you are disassociated or not even there. On a more personal note, "moving forward" should NEVER be used in a poem as it is a corporate hack phrase (unless of course if this is your point, but I don't think so). It is too loaded and there is really no other direction to go.

[Shingo]

Um, generally i'm really bad at writing reviews. One section of english i was specifically lacking in...
I do think that it is well written, but i feel that (because of my own experience) it is never simple for anyone to simply know who they are. We are always evolving and changing, be it minutely or in major leaps and bounds.
I completely appreciate that other people can relate to this easily, and well, however it did not grab me and allow me to do the same.
That is not to say i think it is bad... far from it, as i said earlier i do like it and it is well written...
Anyhow, thats just what i have to say.

[Ants']

Legacy what a sincere poem. infact it speaks directly to me.

[Bayside]

I enjoyed this poem as it stirs my thoughts. I would only change the "really" in the 7th stanza, I think it takes away from what you're trying to say, it would make the last line in that stanza more powerful. Just my opinion.

[Syd]

I really liked your poem. However, the poem was Know Who You Are strikes me as a basic question, kind of bringing you back to the basics of life...because of this I think that some of the bigger words (not to sound illiterate) don't really fit with the question. Its a basic question that should be maybe explained with simpler vocabulary. But I really did like it!!! :)

[Skye Larson]

Just out of curiosity, what would you say to those who've adopted the belief that to know others, one must know one's self?
Most people don't want to or are afraid to look in the mirror and see themselves for who or what they truly are, and to avoid realizing who they are would not try to figure out another person for fear of being discovered themelves.
This is some really great work, and I do like it, but is your goal to reach out to those who need to know who they are/know others, who need acceptance and understanding? What about those who are too far gone?
Reading a poem, a speech, a book, a quote, no matter how much you can relate, isn't all it takes for people to open up and decide 'You know, whoever wrote this, they get it. They know.' Once you've gotten to the point where for something to touch you it has to be related to pain, you don't just heal 1-2-3 because of some magic someone wove with their words; You're still afraid, still hurting at least a little bit, and still wondering those morbid contemplations that always seem to float in the background and come to the forefront when it gets too quiet.
Some people are too immersed in themselves to bother with others. What if they don't want to know someone else, don't want to reach out and know someone that intimately? What if its not in a person anymore to reach out and become that close to another person? Does your message only go to those willing to reach out?
What about those that need more help and work than your words can give? Would you be willing to help them? Those with trust issues, those hurting too bad to say anything about it, still caught in their stoic battle to find out what everything means and their place in the explanations of that?
I probaby sound hostile, but Im really just opinionated, playing devil's advocate. What if and all that. You have a good vibe, a good message, a good idea.
But what about those who can't let someone in?

[DragonWolf]

Very well written. It is unfortunate that most people don't know who they are. I am still learning who I am but they are so many that have no idea who they are or who others really are.
It is also very unfortunate that when most people say "Thank you", " I Love you", etc. they really don't mean it. The meaning is lost on most people. I have done some recent soul searching, if you will, and do put the true meaning behind the words that I speak.

[K. McNeil]

deep, powerful, touching...i could go on forever

this poem is amazing i truly loved it. you are indeed an incredible writer, you made me think about my life and i can really relate to it at certain times. this is the first i've read by you and i truly enjoyed it.

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