Judge Me Not Not by my past which has helped to mold me Not by my parents whom were there to scold me Not by my looks, they tend to deceive Not by my financial stature as money doesn't define me Look past my color so beautiful and brown Look past my ancestral features, from royalty I was born Look past my failures I will be a success Look past the immediate to glimpse my true self My soul, my depth, my strength, my inner beauty My intellectual mind, my ingenuity All these things you never see, for you take one glance and proceed to judge me Judge 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.