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.

[Annette Ackerson]

Deep and pure thinking.

Annette

[Noeme]

This is great! It really makes you think and really makes you reflect! I love your style of writing. I have always loved reading anything that pulls me in and puts me there, and then having it be so powerful that even after reading it, you continue to dwell on it awhile! I look forward to what you have next!

[Lorelei Middlesex]

There is no denying the amount of refreshing and wonderful insight that is packed into this powerful piece.

However, I sometimes found myself confused at certain points, mostly because of either the lack of, or the excess of punctuation marks. The thoughts either bleed together, forming multiple meanings, or become disjointed, forming incomplete ones.

The utter wisdom and striving of this piece to help readers truly see what the poet is intending to get across really shows the passion and knowledge the writer has for this certain topic. This truly is a piece that makes readers actually stop for a few moments to think, to step away from their world for just a minute and gather much-needed perspective.

Refreshing.

[Elisa]

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?

This was a very powerful part of the poem. I think you really captured what you were trying to say with that one. Thank you for reaching out me, I will keep an eye out for more from you.

[hamiltonVsWorld]

definitely an intriguing work...often I am swallowed in moments of my own vanity so I can relate to your piece...are those all things that you wrote or is that part in the middle an excerpt from something or someone else. Either case this speaks to everyone. Kudos

[Matthew Hunt]

well spoken well spoken.... as to knowing who you are i would like to refer you to a story on my page "the why we should all ways think on the path" also "the forgoten"

[Nicola Jane]

Quite philosophical this one. Really got my mind working, trying to figure out my own answers to the questions raised. Very well written.

[Yanangi]

very insightful piece, the exploration is insightful and tender.

[Patrick]

Legacy, I don't know what to say except "wow". You have picked up on so many subtleties of what we are as people. Most people are so self-absorbed, wrapped up in their own being that they lose sight of the wonder that is around us. More people should take a look at those around them instead focusing only on themselves.

[Butterflymom]

I've spent my life so caught up in taking care of others that I've often lost myself!!! If I had waited until I knew who I was I would not have accomplished anything, or served my fellow beings. You have a beautiful message...great write!!
Blessings, Peace, and Love,
Butterflymom