Do You Know Who I Am? Poem by PHUMLA KHANYILE

There's more to me for sure
More than the colours of your paint
More than the confines of your box

Am not a tragedy to mourn?
Nor a disappointment to endure
You wouldn't know my worth for sure

Certainly am beyond your comprehension
This I see by your misjudgments
Search me not in my past deeds!

Do you even know my shoe size?
Would you walk in them without a cry?
Or even toe my thin lines for a little while?

Am more layered and deepened
Judge me not by my surface
Not until you know my core

You do not know me don't lie
You've only gone as far as I could allow
You know the little I could reveal