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.

[Mikayla Rasmussen]

this is a very amazing poemthat leaves you wondeering and thinking. youwrote this so well i think who ever reads it will definitly start to wonder and think. i especially like the part:
Facing our Fears – Is all, but a mirror image

One we refuse to see - one we refuse to acknowledge?
it is a very good question.!!!!!!!!;D

[ErinLovesYou<3]

Great piece! I can relate to this, it makes you think and ponder why we do the things we do. No one knows but us, and that's why its important for us to "Know who you are".

[bill]

Very good. The last five lines are a stunningly good wrap.

[Raindrop]

I really like what you wrote about. It's a tough question. No one really knows who they are. Everyone is talking, but no one is really listening and trying to understand. Therefore, we lose ourselves in meaningless conversations. I enjoyed reading every word that you have written. You really made me think about my actions and about that big question: who am I, really?
To understand someone else, understand yourself first. That is what I see in this amazing write.

[Seashell]

Wisdom oozing from every sentence here. I try not to judge folks on first meetings as I believe we are who we are when comfortable with someone, the 'REAL me' as they say, comes naturally in the right situation. Only my thoughts on this !! When I say "I love you" I absolutely mean it. It came from my heart, therefore it was there in the first place as in "Thank you".
so 'Thank you' for sharing Legacy.
Babs x

[Kiari Sabon]

all i do is think and this gave me more to think of i realy like this its very good

[Jouni Sakari]

I don't know who you are , as you still have information awaiting there , to come visible in your About box . I AM Jouni Sakari Kemppinen , nice to meet you :)

[hannahjchin]

very very true, good things to think about

[Daywalker]

The most beautiful poems are often about some truths that everyone knows, but only few concider. I think this poem nailed just that and gives many people here, by what I've seen from the reviews, a wake-up call. I'm also reminded about these truths, and it makes me realize again, what kind of people we really are. I also like the vocabulary used in this poem, and I can totally relate to you in the fact that I was also searching for who "I" was when I was young.

[velsix]

As my life reaches it's inevitable conclusion, though not yet, I see so much truth about myself in this poem. To make amends for ones 'failings' throughout their life, I hope my 'reflection' will show that I've become more 'human'.
A beautiful explanation of our many faults.