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.

[WhoaitSarah]

Simply, AMAZING!

[Sherrian Morgan]

This is a great poem. I really liked the statement that says, "Without values we have no foundation."

[xMoonLightx]

This si san amazing piece of writing...it really digs deep intot he soul and clenches the deepest parts of the heart. i could feel the emotion in the piece and it really makes you think. i loved it
Bravo!

--Shannon--

[Unspoken Wordz]

This a great poem. I love how it flows together. I enjoy reading this poem. Thanks for sharing!

[Summer R]

Really beautifull, i loved it...keep up the good work.

[Anna]

wonderfullly written

[Danielle Khairallah]

this is really great. lots of thing about are in that poem. very well done...

[Elizabeth Slaght]

I am sort of speechless and can only say that its a beautiful piece and it spoke so much truth to me. I actually had to stop and re-read a few lines that really hit home and i will remember these lines for a good deal of time if not forever.

"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?

When we really speak the words
'Thank You'~'I Love you'~'I AppreciateYou'~'I am Truly Sorry'
Are they Truly filled with the meanings they deserve?"

[Duane Klinger]

This contains such expression, absolutely amazing. I felt compelled to reflect upon myself, I've never read a poem so powerful, the words you used. . .amazing, I can say no more
MKLINE

[Vicki Phipps]

What this means to me: "Looking back � moving forward

Beyond Cognition, reflections now dissolved

Image of another becomes clear

I must vanish to�

~ Know Who {You} Are ~:
It means that the question we should ask is not "Who am I," but "Who are you."....am I right? This is a very deep piece and deep pieces are hard to read...but that's why we write...to describe things that are hard to describe! Good job