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.

[Sakib]

It's awesome. It has captured the reality really well. I liked it

[Hunter C. Brown]

a poem that makes you evaluate your life as you read it. it is filled what i believe is the truth about life now. hatred, fear, gossip, anger. all things we need to move past. very good poem i loved it.

[Cascara (aka Sprint Goe..]

Such a thought provoking write...I do agree that we must know ourselves properly to properly mean and say all that we do. This poem finally opened up my eyes (a little bit) about the past; it shouldn't affect what we want to do in the future, but it shapes who we end up being like in the future.

[MadeCheaply]

This opened up my questions I asked my family and teachers when I was little. I remember when I was 5 (Yes, believe it or not I remember ^^) I would ask my grandfather, who is my caretaker now "Who am I" and he would answer "Samantha" and I would asking him "No, I mean, Who. Am. I" and he would just give me a confused expression. I believe I have now found who I am. Thank-You for writing this poem, it was deep.

[LateNightLady]

I like this very much. The message is clear but what I am left with is the curiosity of the background. Everything you use is based int he general.

"Encompassing emotions, other than my own..." - What emotions?
"Where have we lost such pluralisms in life?" - Which pluralisms?
"Why do we wish to ex-change the reflections of who we are?" - For what?

Also, this line got me:

Without values we have no foundation
Our future should not, and must not, be transmogrified
(Because of our past)

While you say it must not, should not - it always is. We are creatures of our past decisions, actions, emotions and experience the consequences and joys from them. To say we should not be changed through them is impossible. Like Pavlov, we fear something when we touch it and it hurts us. To ask us to live without the interpretation of consequential forces locks us into a childlike innocence, which in itself can be harmful.

It takes a strong individual to step out of their history and look at something without biased. Can we do it? We're human and colored by our background. We pass judgement in order to adapt and survive. Trying to do otherwise is almost out of our ability.

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?

- I agree. We say these because we must in order to maneuver within the folds of polite society yet do we truly humble ourselves enough to experience the meaning behind them? Not often.

Thank you for posting :) I enjoy reading your work.

[Becky C Strukamp]

Beautifully written.I marveled in your chosen words!!! Most excellent write!!

[StillHere]

beautiful

[patricia]

I especially liked the last lines in this ...I must vanish to....Know Who You Are

I dont think there will ever be a world of non-judgement in my lifetime, but it is nice to try. I once read...We don't see the world as it is. We see it as we are.

Thankyou I enjoyed this.

[masqued_muse]

Brings me back full circle to a wise man who once said," Love your neighbor as yourself." for....if we do not draw abundantly first from the well of love; so we are satiated, our thirst is quenched, how will we offer this gift to others, if there is no overflow?....alas, we have nothing to give, and we, they are left thirsty. This is the LEGACY we leave for our children? So then; maybe the GREATEST SIN....is no self love..you have confirmed....I concur. SUPERB write.