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.

[AnekaBPoetry]

so true...

[JazEli]

This left me thinking, Who am I, really? Great write. As always :)
-Jaz

[Bruce Wayne]

Very inspiring piece Legacy.. A true eye-opener I'm a huge fan of works that leave the mind thinking.. This is the first piece I've read from you and as of now cant wait to read more.

[midnight star]

Wonderful piece Legacy! Now you have me pondering, "Do I know who I am?" Or for some reason am I rejecting my self? Idk. But you have made me want to go deeper into myself and look for answers that I have never thought about before. I want to know if I am better in other peoples eyes than I am in my eyes. I hope I am better to other peoples eyes, than I am in mine. Because in my eyes I am pitiful. You have inspired me to find out who I truly am. Thank you Legacy. (and I realy do mean it. From the bottom of my heart.) You are a wonderful writer! Please continue to write.

[Megan]

I'm speechless, I can't review this well enough and give enough credit for how great this is. Just know that I love it and that I wish a lot of people I know could read this and learn from it.

[Kruppz]

Know who you are and half the life's battle is won...great post, Legacy! Very introspective & invoking introspection, the forgotten art.

[Dewella~Vintella]

This peace makes me look into who I really am; And seeing myself maybe through another persons eyes beside my own. I understand who I am, I see myself for who I am; But how does that portray when I am on the outside looking in.

Me seeing myself is biased, and so, if I were to look from another eyes, would I see myself differently then I normally would? Do I really know who I am, or do I just think I know?

You have me questioning myself, which is not a bad think.

This piece was very powerful, and profound in its topic. The flow was wonderful; All together, beautiful job.

Vinny~

[socratesgray]

Interesting questions in a musing on identity. It seems almost as a yogic meditation, an introspective look found often in Eastern philosophy. While I personally find the wording and structure a little awkward for my own reading, the content does convey a very clear lesson.

[anne p. murray- LadeeAn..]

Incredible write.. chocked full of wisdom and inner reflection and a voice that rings
with truth
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"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?"

Very powerful statement

[John Patrick Robbins AK..]

True words my friend you have a true voice and thats a very good thing keep posting and stay crazy