Slam - Poetry Made in Botswana : Mandisa Mabuthoe performs "Ribbons to Bind My Hair"

Botswana-based poet Mandisa Mabuthoe performs "Ribbons to Bind My Hair."

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Ribbons to Bind My Hair

I’m not so twisted anymore

I’m looking for ribbons to bind my hair

I cant be the fairest of them all

I cant be so loose like Cinderella

I am not going to sugarcoat the witch hunt

I am not waiting to be rescued

I think I’m waiting to be born

But these days its not so twisted anymore

Because the villains and the princesses

They all get paid the same

The poets and the Princes

They all sound the same

Dreamy and twisted and far away from pleasure

Reckless and rebellious and far away from home

Looking for complicated ribbons and strings

to bind my tongue

but these days I’m not so twisted like a robe

I cant be too soft and thick

My skins gone thin against the bone

But I’m not so shackled anymore

And its not so hard to walk away

Not to forbidden things I don’t regret

Not to broken promises and biscuits and fairy tales

I wont forget

Rays of light untie the ribbons that bind my feet

Red ribbons to lace up my tattered boots

Pink ribbons to hide all the purple hues

So no one knows Ive been abused

Orange ribbons the slippery kind

So as not to confine my wings the day

[I'm ready to find] the day

I’m ready to fly

Source : http://www.africanhiphop.com / Sebastian Modak On Vimeo

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