I AM NOT…

[Guest guest]

I AM NOT…

 

I am not my religion

I am not my address

I am not my nationality

I am not my country

 

I am not my brain

I am not my beauty

I am not my head

I am not my personality

 

I am not my height

I am not my weight

I am not my figure

I am not my health

 

I am not my feeling

I am not my intellect

I am not the clothes I wear

I am not the titles I bear

 

I am not my age

I am not my experience

I am not the praises and accolades

I am not the mistakes I made

 

I am not the school and degree

I am not the licenses I earned

There’s more to a person -- body, soul and spirit,

 than the CV and certificates

 

~Champs Ulysses Cabinatan

*poem experiment, inspired from a form I’m filling up.