Jasmine Mans is a talented spoken word artist, is best known for her fierce, bold take on all subject matters that she feels passionately about. You may recognize her face and words from her rapidly growing media presence: she has appeared on “HBO’s Def Poetry” and HBO’s Russell Simmons presents “Brave New Voices”, here`s one of my pieces from her, called "Excuse My Palms"..
I hope your Ex girlfriend will excuse my palms
My fingertips will meet you at your melanin
I will hold you until she gets it right
She has a forest fire lit in her chest
A little girl scraping her insides for freedom
I can tell her slippery fingers leave you wet and uneasy at night
I know you stalk midnights and try to stop time in her presence
She is the most beautiful disaster you have ever seen
She carries the sloppiest heartbeat
Your love for her will make scrape and break your silhouette to fit inside her arms
But today love she is not strong enough for you
She is all scared and life stricken
Too angry to be woman, too girl to accept responsibility
Scar tissue, burnt bridges, and mistakes that finds home in the pit of her stomach.
Stop expecting her to hold you when she has to play atlas to the hearts that left her broken and bruised in the first place
Stop expecting her to love you unconditionally
When she has been conditioned to believe that passion comes with an expiration date
Stop forgiving her for breaking you, before she pieces you back together
I will hold you until she learns how to fight for you
Until she understands that bravery is not how easily you can walk away but how long you can allow yourself to stay
Stop expecting her to be woman enough for you
Because broken is only capable of 2
Crashing & Cutting
So I will make love to you until your bruises feel like choices
Until she learns how to hold your heart like she holds your body in the sweat of night
And do not convince yourself that you are innocent either
You have holes that are older than you will allow yourself to remember.
You have exit signs that scream louder than your heartbeat.
You have a way of pushing.
And she will run and try to find your kiss in someone else’s lips
But believe me when I tell you that she knows that they don’t feel like yours
And at night she says an extra prayer for you
And that deep down inside that little girl in her in begging to be good enough for you
But together you are chainsaws and apologies,
Mistakes that are willing to let go of everything, but the right thing.
I will hold you until she is strong enough
Until she finds bravery in her battle scars.
I will hold you until she gets tired of chasing pavements and bottomless dreams
Until she realizes you are everything she ever wanted and that this love is everything it ever seemed
I know she is scared of being the best she can be,
But your soul isn’t as human as you would like it to be.
So when she stumbles to you.
Half lover half time bomb.
You better hold her like true love on judgment day.
And don’t you forget that she will always come back to you.
Broken, deadly, disasters…
Love never forgets home.
So tell your ex girlfriend to excuse my palms.
When she decides thats she’s ready.
I would never leave my lifelines left on your silhouette .
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