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.

[zee]

I love this, It's something I've recently been wondering...
Who am I? I am learning.

[Bill Ballistik]

Yeah I'm not a huge poetry fan but it was well written and all.

[Nan]

It seems you are discovering the core values that every poet should know, bravo for that.
And it reminds me that poets have reason for being, there is a theme behind their work,
literally something that primes the pump to make them create.

As I said, all of us write about something that is dear to our hearts
and seemingly your theme is very close to you. thanks for the read.

Nan

[Argentina]

This is a very touching piece, inspiring me to take a second look at my life, at the same time asking the question, "who am I, do I really know who I am?" You have expressed a lot of emotion in this write. You've also given me a lot to think about. Our morals and values shape our lives and make us into the individuals we are. The past serves as a foundation to build the future upon, its up to us to choose what we do with that foundation. Only then can we truly understand who we are.

A beautiful, well thought out piece.

Argentina

[Anne Ransom]

Excellent write! Your writing is powerful. Leaves us with powerful questions to answer. Who refuses to see? Who refuses to acknowledge? ("we"?) Your words are beautiful. At the same time, it seems to me to demand, and somehow contradict. "Our future should not, and must not, be transmogrified (Because of our past)" This seems relative, and in my humbling experience of living, does not seem to apply.

Refusal comes from fear, doesn't it? There is no judgment in the mirror image... the judgment is within a mind -- our minds? My experience (so far) is that surrendering to the pain allows me to see the truth in the mirror, and (so far) it has been relative to my willingness to feel.

My favorite lines from your words "Looking back � moving forward Beyond Cognition, reflections now dissolved Image of another becomes clear" How beautiful! I only wish you would not vanish...

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt... only more love." Mother Theresa

"Only that which is the other gives us fully unto ourselves." Sri Yogananda

Blessings, Anne

[Mark-Anthony]

This is a great poem, filled with so many poignant questions that drive home so much that people never realise as ease of an expression they feel will make all ok. I really enjoyed this piece and the image in particular of "Why must we quench our thirst from the well of hatred?"
This is a beautiful image and I deeply felt it.

All the peace

Mark-Anthony

[born4worship]

So inspiring !!! A true masterpiece that encourages being conscientious of others. This really spoke to me that the more we try to self evaluate the more elusive our true self becomes, but the more we reach out to know and love others, the more we find ourselves as well. I'm not sure if that's what you were trying to convey but that's what I got. I love it!!

[Datchik76]

"Without values we have no foundation" -- without a proper foundation no building set will stand. I enjoyed this poem and the request for thought that it commands, especially this line as it reminds me of what my granny once said to me. Keep on - keeping on.

[strange_gurl]

very touching piece specially this part ''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. ''
keep writing Legacy

[rumpulpulsky]

very intense. So many issues in one rather short poem. I think that lots I have not yet understood. Must read again and again