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.

[Jonathan Weiss]

A plea for loss of ego. I'd like to see some punctuation where indicated. Your message is needed and should be heeded.

[Kayla]

The first two lines of this were so powerful that they set the standard for the rest of the poem. And it was amazing. And I really like your introduction to it, it gives a real sense of what you're writing about. I identify with the emotion in this...good work. ^_^

[Kathryn]

Wow. What a great message of truth. My favorite line is "Without values we have no foundation". There is an awesome amount of truth in that staement. Thank you for sharing.

[unclecharlie]

Very good. It give a person something to think about

[Dutch]

Nice job it express your self well I learned to do that read the one called Horse that could not be rode that has lot to do with me

[T. Barton James]

I have always been very good at expressing myself on paper as opposed to verbally in person. But this piece of work by you far surpasses anything I could conceive of doing about myself! I eagerly look forward to more great works from you, and very soon too! Congratulations on a job well done!

T. Barton James

[Sixth Moon]

I liked this poem , This is what I was asking myself the other day. Did I cut myself short and what will i need to do to be myself. lol. funny as it may sound I really don't know how powerful I really am. I know its powerful beyond my imagination. But your right. "Without values we have no foundation" maybe I shattered my values, which broke down my foundation.

-Sixth Moon

[Vera Iconica]

Well, personally I don't understand it. I couldn't get any meaning out of it. It seems like you put a lot of thought into what you wrote, which is rare. Even with not understanding it, I thought it was a wonderful peice of poetry.

[S. E. Roberts]

It is so true, nice writing. =]

[R. D. Chase]

Really nice ^.^