Having My Say!: the Blessing and the Curse

Judge Me NotNot by my past which has helped to mold me Not by my parents whom were there to scold meNot by my looks, they tend to deceiveNot by my financial stature as money doesn't define meLook past my color so beautiful and brownLook past my ancestral features, from royalty I was bornLook past my failures I will be a successLook past the immediate to glimpse my true selfMy soul, my depth, my strength, my inner beautyMy intellectual mind, my ingenuityAll these things you never see, for you take one glance and proceed to judge meJudge Me Not!In Having My Say, author Safronia Banks has devised her universal poetic selections to richly define religion, passion, sorrow, strength, and bitter reality.