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.

[papaed]

Acceptance of self is easier with age. The past can be a nemesis in love and understanding . handling our own emotions is often seeing ourselves in a cloudy mirror. We only have Now. We must release the past with forgiveness, resignation, and understanding. A past that is filled with captured judgements is doomed to haunt and guide the present and the future. I think the lines you added were needed and are very good.

'I have several pieces that address this... Hunger for Now', 'I live the future' and a few on another web site I keep if you are interested.
A wonderful, deeply felt, incite-filled write.
papaed

[Silent Kim aka mizmetap..]

Thanks for sharing a well written piece. This piece holds a lot to relect on. Well done.

[Christina]

I can relate so much to this piece. It inspires me. I love pieces that leave me thinking. This one left me speechless, and I've never read anything like it. Wonderful job. =]

[Ba en Aset]

A struggle we all go through to find the true person we are. Its funny how you can see yourself, feel yourself, and even know something about yourself, yet not know who you are. A struggle that most go through.
I really enjoyed reading this. I love reading words that get my noggin working :D

[;]

This was amazing....It has left me a little speechless.....The emotion in this piece is intense and raw......My favorite stanza is the one that says "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?" Those words touched my very soul and i thank you greatly for writing it....Again great poem!

[~mikey-likey ~]

This was interesting the way you questioned the morales of ourselves and if what we say is truly what we mean. thanks 4 the invite. ~ MyKey

[Jarred Jones]

A picture of the position we struggle with our whole lives, whether we see it for what it is or not. Thank You for this piece

[I Am Myself]

amazing is right. great expressions and words. excellent

[Dallas]

very nice. I love the message of this and you express it in such a powerful way. Truly an inspiring work that we all sould strive to live by.

[Jaded Perception]

wow. every word so compelling i dont know where to start.this has unleashed a monster in me thats been percolating my whole life.....crap! for lack of a better word hahaha!ive always wrestled with the idea that we are products of our upbringing...our invironment, versus our genes, our heritage, as I too, have family that has and has not been raised within family....be it in the penal system or as wards of the state or foster home after foster home....our foster system is so terribly broken...and thus produces broken children, children who might otherwise have been happy carefree vibrant human beings...no one else can know...or even IMAGINE. what its like...unless theyve been a foster kid....even the parents, the biological nor the foster...none of them suffer like the kids do. I think its so awesome ur bringing light to this.!!!!!

Bless you,
Jade