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.

[LadyKarissa]

I know who I am but I am not happy with it. My life has not gone the way I wanted it and my life is nothing but a living hell. Lucie

[Dylan Cook]

Very nice

[Natasha Austin]

Very good!

[HeIsWe]

I love this poem

[Ben]

Do i know who i am?hell no,maybe or maybe not. I can actually continue to doubt myself because i don't actually know who i am. I will find it out now!.great work u kept me thinking.

[LiveLaughLove]

now youve got me thinking who i am but this happens to all of us i know ive got caught up in the moment and when i look back to those moments i know i wasn't acting like me, like who i want to be, glad im not there anymore
well anyway, great write =)

[Sophie]

Sometimes we lose ourselves to be part of a larger group, the society draws boundaries to control emotional behavior. It's hard to tell if some things are right or wrong unless some others tell you so. "I" am often as small as a speck of sand and less often larger than who you are. But I also believe in the butterfly effect, even a small ripple on one side of a coast can become a tsunami on the other. Every word has their own strength and power, use them with care.

[DarkAngel]

Wow. I love poems that strike the emotional cords like this

[T.L. Cudjo]

I enjoyed this poem, so true on many levels.

[Butterfly]

Through my divorce, I came into self realization. Being consumed with other's wants and needs, sacrificing myself, made me lose sight of myself. At the end, I had to ask, who are you? What are your likes, dislikes? What makes you happy, smile, and more importantly, who are you not!?

I love this poem! As you can see, I relate!