Know Who You Are

 

Know Who You Are:

by United Writings   

What is knowing who you are

When you know everything about you

Your bio, your name

No its looking through other individuals Eyes

 

When you look through different eyes besides your own

You will realize that every thing is different in someone else’s

Views who am I and who are you and what is this place you

People call life

 

Knowing who you are

Do I know who I am

Did I look through other individuals eyes

Yes but the question is do you

Reviews

[Erin Phoenix]

I feel like this sometimes. You really don't know who you are until it is your time to leave... even then your very lucky if you do get the gift of ... well you.

Hope to read more of your work. '

Keep me posted.

Don't be shy to ask for help!

:)

[Albert Freeman]

Great poem. I think more people should take a step back and find out who they are. What you think of yourself can definitely be different than what others think of you. Great poem. Makes you think about things.

[Alex McFadyen]

I realize that you are young and new to writing and this poem is a good start. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't improve. This is how: This piece looks like it belongs in a frame on a wall in a suburban trailer. Personally, the message is nothing new to me and is incredibly cliche. The poem has a bare minimal use of poetic devices, and I find the language really simple. Try to use metaphors and imagery that gives me some perspective on the self that makes me appreciate its elagance a little more. Also, most published poetry is not preachy. That is a weakness I have too, I preach too damn much (even now, ironically).

However, I think this would be good for an email that you can forward along to all your friends. Maybe it will find its way in my email inbox one day.

[ANNA]

Do we really know who we are? Is that why we travel to far places to find a piece of our self we like and bring back a new life. A new person. Or is it just because we have no time anymore. To show are true self? I have to say that this short poem brought more to the table. So many will start to change from your words. By wanting to know who they are. I Feel that I don't know myself at night. When the lights are out and the moom shines. But I know by reading your poem, it will put me to sleep. Just knowing who I am one a day, for a live time

Thank you for sharing this beauty
Much lov Anna

[Robert Luna]

Can we truly ever know who we are, as we constantly change. We learn something new about the world and the way it effects us, causing ourselves to evolve or adapt to new experiences that life itself brings. I agree we can't truly know ourselves until we see what others see about us or in us. The way I see myself is not the way others do. Your thoughts and words here are both thought provoking and so passionately truthful. We search to understand ourselves and our place in the world, while we are in a never ending state of learning. You really struck something within me on this piece as I think like this all the time. Wondering about these questions your words bring into the mind of a reader. But I think we can never know ourselves only become aware of the person that we were at one point as we grow into some one new each day.

This was such a great piece. I truly enjoyed it. I read this before and left a comment on it but it seems to have vanished. Sorry.

Great Job!!!!!!!

[whispersoftly]

I love to analyze and try to figure people out....the only thing I would love more....

Is knowing what others see in me :-)

Interesting...
I hope to read more...

[EvesDaughter]

How true this is...
Your poem is introspective
and written well. I enjoy
reading something that makes
me think afterwards, and this
did. Thank you for posting.

[SugaFoot]

I can dig it! Immediately, one of my favorite quotes came to mind: "...we have to see each other with new eyes"--Malcolm X. I immediately thought of that when reading your poem and that yes, we have to look at others with new eyes, but also look at ourselves through others eyes. very good.

[Antigone]

I like the theme you used, like not everyone in the world sees in the same Eyes. I hate how people in the world want everyone to be good girls and boys and do what they're told - and then they say that being unique is GOOD. It's funny how a small poem can make you think, huh? I Iike this, though, I really do.

[*~Imperfectly Me~*]

This is a good poem.... personally i think to know who you are you have to look through your own eyes but you have to take away the rose tinted glasses that you wear whenever you look at yourself... But then again, it's hard for people to know who they are... i know myself well enough to know that i do not know who i am... however, it is a sad fact that society determines who we are, they define who we are... This is a great poem... Causes a lot of thoughts to run through the readers mind... Great Job!