Know Thyself

Is it so hard to know thyself,
Difficult to believe in oneself,
Hard to trust yourself,
Trying over and over to know myself.

We all try to know science
When all our life’s reasons are not in silence
Yet we become part of a play
In which we are the actors and scripting the way

Life makes it too complicated to understand oneself
As you become too busy to be someone else

Alas, it is not unknown , that we have all become a clone
A replica of what we see, 
And not whom we want to be

I am still trying to be one with myself
Trying to find the true potential within self

Understanding the glass is half full not empty
That I have much , if not plenty

It’s when I can be true to myself 
To Know Thyself

---You can purchase my book of Poems "Temet Nosce"------Where you will find the rest of my
poems--

--- Mustafah Mun

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009



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Date: 11/9/2009 4:53:00 PM
and when you realize you have a "full glass" the world has everything you could possibly ever need in it if you look, search and are open to the gifts...then you will be aware. Light & Love
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Date: 11/3/2009 9:12:00 AM
Lovely poem, it reminds me of my poem, Your Soul and Your Spirit Is Really You! love Simone
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