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.

[Jake Staffeld]

This one really makes you thiunk about yourself. Now I'm questioning wether or not I truly do mean everything I say. Lies, even unknowing ones, hurt, and this makes it clear in a biting way. I love it.

Right on! Most people don't know who they are, and don't care to know. Denial is a powerful advesary. You dove right into why we face the problems in our society today. Zombie after Zombie.

[light and ashes]

Gorgeous poetry,
many good points are in this poem.
I love the lines "Why do we wish to exchange the reflections of who we are?"
Most of us are so harsh on ourselves no matter what we look like, we don't ever seem to be completely happy. And why?
Also I love: "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?" and "Thoughts become nothing more than reflections. History will-recall voices within our diverse past."

[soulsearching]

excellent!

[quinfinn]

very introspective and soul searching. i am impressed by the way you play with words and phrases, one of my favorite indulgences. great write!

[A.E. Surdam]

Strong, magneficent! Just so true. I love this especially the meaning behind this. It makes you think and is just lovely. :D

[Ruth]

For each shadow there is light. For each downfall, there is realisation:) Awesome work friend! Poppy xx

[Butch Decatoria]

Legacy, enjoyed your words - although not clearly lending to it's intent. I understand it is a so-called instructional or "how-to" poem, but I was not sure as to who you were writing for (yourself, or for the reader or maybe even both?) There were a few spots that were sketchy and leaving open someone to argue, for example:
the future moves into the past� ::If that happened, things would be backwards, what did you mean by that? (Is it a dread or wish to not worry of our future, rather than think of it, push it away in the part of our thoughts where we have left our past?) And what is "Transmogrified?--do you mean Trans-Modify?

I can see where you were trying to go with this piece, and knowing oneself is as important as knowing who you place your faith in. I think once you've actually discovered and truly do "KNOW" who you are, you'd be surprised how less one talks about oneself and what others should follow. I think you write great poetry, kudos toward that enlightened path. Self-discovery can be painful sometimes, but worth every bit of wretching out the darkness that makes us blind to one another's "being" Here. Thank you for sharing this.

~~~Butch Decatoria (PFluffer)

[MEM]

wow! that's all i can say. wow, decribes how i feel. it leaves you thinking and it makes you wonder about yourself. great job!

[K.D.Storm]

This is something I have pondered for many years. You speak a clear truth of how we seem to exchange ourselves for approve and after time we forget who we as a people left tto ponder the truth under such mask.