For The Girl You Are Poem by Sarah Mkhonza

I started off with short hair,
Curly, cut and cute like you,
I ended up with a long wig,
Tangled and tied at the back,
Only to find it wasn't me.

I walked in high heels like you,
Wore the shortest and longest skirts,
Then found that fashion changes always,
Only one thing remained the same,
The color of my hue and all that is me.

When the young man saw me then,
He liked just the me he saw,
I never changed that much,
In bell bottoms I looked the same,
In the last fashion so did I look,
Then I learned the lesson,
It was not about the outside,
But about the inside that I am.

To change the outside was all I knew,
My life wanted what I did not have,
While getting rid of what I had,
For it would always be faithful to me,
Never moving even in the roughest wind,
For it was born of strange doings like you,
To stay the cause for the girl you are.