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.

[Laughing Lunatic]

I enjoyed this peace but I feel know one will ever know who they truly are completely. Life is the lesson and we learn everyday something new about ourselves. This makes you really think and reflect and is a great write! =)

[Deranged Kiwi]

a lot of powerful points made in this piece. Beautifully written. Your first and last stanza's are by far the best I've ever read. And it is true that sometimes its difficult to see others because we let ourselves get in the way. Same as when we bend so much to what others want to see from and we lose ourselves. Get the readers thinking ^_^ Job well done.

AJ

[Nick Erickson]

"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?"

This is a great piece for getting everyone who reads it to think about their life at present.
The lines above about speaking of love, appreciation and feeling sorry is so true. Are those words spoken too much that they have lost their meaning. Once spoken are you truly apologetic, in love and appreciative. What will you do to prove you mean it?
Well done and I've left nothing but questions.
Very well done.

[Kevin_Davis]

I really enjoyed this piece. It's great to see someone put so much work into their poetry. Our language captures our meaning. So how do we know that our salutations are true to our heart?

Customer service is my day job. The false emotions that we carry when we are randomly introduced to strangers disturbs me. It's hard not carry these fake actions into our personal life. So what do we find to be true? We need to know who we are before we know other people. Before we find our truth.

Thanks for introducing me to your work. Keep up the great writing!

[JC]

I must say, I was one of those "pondering" after reading this not once or twice but thrice. I would have to say I disagree with the fact that our futures should not be changed because we reflect on our past, on the contrary, its our past that develops us, and along the way, evolves us. How else do we overcome our mistakes, and become that what we see in our reflection? If your moral reflection is the true you, saying Thank You, or I Love You, is heartfelt.

So Thank You Legacy, for being the person you see in the mirror.

Be the change you wish to see in the world- Gandhi

[Belovedly_Loveless]

I have felt that way. Sometimes it is hard to remember who I am in all the people that others want me to be... I want to please them but I know that I wouldn't be able to do that, so I only please a few at a time then move on to the next ones who need my attention. This was very well written, as is everything else I have read of your work. Fantastic.

[Veve]

This subject is highly worth exploring. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9) In this society, this culture, this time in which we live, we build up layers of protection. The longer we live, the more layers of protection are built up. In so doing, we most often don't know ourselves completely or fully. But does not knowing ourselves make it impossible to know others? I don't think so. I believe that understanding of others comes by observation and truly caring for the other person, even if it is a stranger. Giving of ourselves to listen, to empathize, to have & show pure Love for another humanbeing. If counsel or advise is needed or requested and we feel that we have something of value to offer, then we should do so. However, many times, people just need another listening ear. A caring ear. A caring look.

Without doubt, one can know another more than he/she knows himself. Many times it is easier to see another's motivation, rationalization, faults and gifts that it is to see our own.

I see no emotion in your piece. There must be emotion, whether it be joy, humor, saddness or grief.

You've made many good points, many statements.....but they are cold. "Show" us. Make us "feel" what you are saying. :-))

[sthrlnd (annmarie)]

First of all, I believe I was asked to review this? not sure :( I am new here..

In my honest opinion, as an avid reader, I don't believe that people would take the time to look up in a dictionary the meaning of ' transmogrified', but I did ;)

Secondly, I must admit that you lost me in the direction and/or main point. I'm not getting what your portraying. At times it has a negative tone and other lines carry a more wishful/hopeful tone.?. I'm lost..lol;(

Looking at each line separately I noticed how BEAUTIFULLY descriptive they are, for example ;

"Why must we quench our thirst from the well of hatred?" ------------------- I LOVED this one especially.

Overall, I see a work in progress.. developing style.. beautiful descriptive lines..
Wonderful potential ;)

Keep writing !

[Birdie]

Fluent, yet broken. Not in an undesirable way though. It really is beautiful and beats true. I'm not great at posing the right words, but I will at least say that this is an amazing poem.
-Bird

[julian3]

Deep, strong, touching - introspection overlaying almost an existentialist framework, well done.