Who we Are

[Weeping Willow]

Who we are

This is a song for all the people
Who left us here to die
Not knowing who we are.

This a song for all the people
Who left me here to die
Not knowing who Am I.

This is a song about those people
Who went away
Not knowing who they are.

And what they’re capable of doing
To our lives
With all their pain and all the horror of their lives,
Just cause they don’t know who they are

This is a song for all the Children
Who lost their lives
Cause of what we’ve done.

This is a song for the parents
Who’ve lost their sons
Cause of what we’ve done

This our cry, our pray for mercy
It’s not our fault
We don’t know who we are.

And what we’re capable of making
with our lives.
It could be perfect
If we only just knew
Who the hell we are.

[mir]

weeping willow - i love that. it's so true. nobody ever knows other people, or even themselves, truly deeply, and it causes so much pain. that's a wonderful poem.

[amanda_isabel]

a truly moving piece. hope others are inspired to look inside themselves and see if they still know who they are.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Very touching Weeping. Am I right in thinking it relates as much to Israel as it does to you personally? Or am I reading something into it that isn't there?

[Virgil]

I like it too Willow. I think it would make a fine song. Do you have music to go along with it?

[ktd222]

I want to feel your pain Weeping Willow but the poems is a little vague. Why did these people leave, and what was it about them leaving that caused you not to know who you are? And vice versa to the two questions posted just before this sentence. Whatever you had experience seems horrible and I want to know the specifics. Unless your going for that 'you people who did it know who you are and what you had done'.

[rachel]

oh Willow,
I cannot even speak about this properly it reminds me of the ancient scripture of our people being on the banks of a strange land in captivity broken hearted.It is too sad those words, too true. :( :bawling:

[Riesa]

Willow, it is powerfully sad, I was thinking along the same lines as XC, wondering how much of your dramatic homeland is behind this poem. I especially like the final two lines.
And I can see what Virgil means, it would make a fine song, can you sing anything besides 'all my exes live in Texas?' ;) You are so complex, my dear, keep posting your poems, and buck up, laddie; remember we will walk hand and hand, with a smile on our faces, you and I.

[Weeping Willow]

Well..
For Virgil, yes i have a tune.. i'm trying to record it with a friend if i'll have somthing i'll let you know..

For XC and Riesa hmm well.. i can't tell you if there is a link to me living here.. it's hidden from my mind right now.. i would say it reflact more my personal feeling of the world..

And last is for KTD222.. i really don't want to sound rude but i think you totaly missed the point..
It might sound a little wierd but i hate to analyze stuff but if i must i would...
So for you, I see this song.. as talking about Death.. where do they go.. all those people... who are those people you ask. They are all the people that died.. if by natural cause or by what we humen being are doing to one each other. but again Where are they? do you have an Answer.. cause i surly don't..
Who are you? why are you here! and why in 90 years from now it is very likely that all of the people writing here won't be alive! why?
Do you know why? i don't... i have not clue who am i... why am i here...
And i surly don't know why there are people i never met that hate me just cause i was born in this country..
so you see... this is how i see.. this little poem of mine.. it just me expressing the frustration i have from this world and from me not knowing! and the fact no one could ever tell me the answer is the worse...

hope it helped clear some of your questions... and again thank you very much for you opinions..
thanks..
Me.

[white camellia]

willow, there's love and sorrow, but i feel love from your poem!

we have to live, so may everyone live better ...

[Weeping Willow]

:) "to each his own".. i think they say..

[smilingtearz]

beautiful... sorrowful but beautiful...

[ktd222]

And last is for KTD222.. i really don't want to sound rude but i think you totaly missed the point..
It might sound a little wierd but i hate to analyze stuff but if i must i would...
So for you, I see this song.. as talking about Death.. where do they go.. all those people... who are those people you ask. They are all the people that died.. if by natural cause or by what we humen being are doing to one each other. but again Where are they? do you have an Answer.. cause i surly don't..
Who are you? why are you here! and why in 90 years from now it is very likely that all of the people writing here won't be alive! why?
Do you know why? i don't... i have not clue who am i... why am i here...
And i surly don't know why there are people i never met that hate me just cause i was born in this country..
so you see... this is how i see.. this little poem of mine.. it just me expressing the frustration i have from this world and from me not knowing! and the fact no one could ever tell me the answer is the worse...

I'm still not getting it. This is a song for all the people Who left us here to die/Not knowing who we are.(S1) Sure the word die is in here but also is the word knowing, which pops up just as many times in your poem, if not more. So yes, death is a result, but knowing seems to be what your stressing.
And surely you can see in your poem that it is simply not about death your talking about, but potential for the living. And it is that vagueness in the poem that is confusing me.

[ktd222]

And last is for KTD222.. i really don't want to sound rude but i think you totaly missed the point..
It might sound a little wierd but i hate to analyze stuff but if i must i would...

I've been told that on numerous occasion, just TODAY!. I hear ya, but reading the eplanation to your poem, I'm sure if I am missing the point. ;)

[Foxvoices]

If you have ever read Trinity, it sounds like the persecution of the Irish by England, but then it could be about any subjucated people. Nice work.

[Weeping Willow]

Well dear KtD222, i'm sorry...
I knew i did not want to talk about this song...
If you Don't understand something ask..
but if not just let yourself tell you what this song is about.... ok..
Sorry.. that's the best i can offer..
Yours.
W.W.

[ktd222]

I can't, because I'm enamored with a need to know. I'm not being hard on you. Ok I'll ask:
Can you tell me how you translate the first stanza?

[Weeping Willow]

Hmm.. ok i hope this is a what you call a stanza.. sorry.. i didn't not learn literature in English so...

This is a song for all the people
Who left us here to die
Not knowing who we are.

This is a song.. for all the people that are not longer here among us the living, and that they died not discovering nothing about who we are or what we are.. or why we are.. and they left us here to die just like them... ignorant.. ..

hope that what you ment.. .. :blush:..
W.W.

[ktd222]

This is a song for all the people
Who left us here to die
Not knowing who we are.

This is a song.. for all the people that are not longer here among us the living, and that they died not discovering nothing about who we are or what we are.. or why we are.. and they left us here to die just like them... ignorant..

May I tell you what I see? I see alot, but I will not say a thing if that means riling you up.