" you are a souvenir shop, where he goes to remember how much people miss him when he's gone" .. oh dear god yep that's me! that how I feel, yep ... Oh gods.
been coming back to this poem for 4 years now.. each time I listen a new part hits different. “Remind yourself this isn’t special, it’s only dinner. Everyone has to eat”... hopefully I can easily say no the next time he asks me over.
I too was in love with my best friend for three years, it hurt so bad because I told him how I felt, twice and was rejected both times. We somehow still remained friends, and somehow I got lucky. He asked me out a year later, and we have been dating for over a year now. He has promised to make up for how he hurt me, for the rest of his life. I was so lucky.
HadesIsMisunderstood "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to." Phil Kaye And remember that he asked you now. Both have taken leaps, maybe not at the same time, but both have landed in the same place. And may you walk together through both the dark... and the light. From one stranger to another, all the luck and love that you can get in life.
"I dream of you more often than I don't." This line and this poem has stuck with me for so many years and I have went back to this every time I find myself in this situation.
I thought about this poem after a heart breaking, gut wrenching text exchange with my “bestfriend” of 3 years. For so long I’ve been asking him to commit to me, take me seriously and today he basically but he would always say that he wasn’t ready because so many things were happening in his life. Then today he tells me he’s in a serious thing with someone and this time it’s “different.” HA! The pain of those words. Made me feel small, not worthy. I know all those things are untrue but it sure felt like it in the moment. This poem is everything I am feeling, glad to know that I’m not the only one to feel this pain.
I think I just died. To say that emotion stemmed from that poetry reading is relatable is an understatement. It took me a decade to get over someone which was hard cos he's a friend. And he's getting married. And my wasted heart will continue to try to cast him off my pedestal. I shld stop loving him. I've tried my best.
please try to understand that this is not only something that you ladies experience, but something that many of us fellas have to go through as well. very well done. powerful to me and relate-able. The changes in her voice make how she feels tangible to me, especially having been there before, and now. best of luck to you Sierra.
Heartbreaking poem .Heartbreaking delivery. I could feel those words shoot right through to every fibre of my being. The rawness is so palpable here, you can sense the pain in every single word.
Watched this for the first time a year ago, and it's still relates to me. For over a year now I have been in love with slam poetry, it's my own secret that no one knows about. If they did, I would become even more of an outcast, so I watch on my own, watch others speak what I feel, let them describe this pain.
I saw this for the first time about four months ago. My boyfriend and I had just broken up and he had started dating another girl. This poem spoke to me then and still does now...but we've worked a lot of our problems out, and now we're happier than we've ever been before. So to all the people who are going through this, just hang in there. I know it feels like hell. I know you'd rather be anywhere than here and I know sometimes you just feel empty. But it will come to pass in some way. Just keep hanging in there.
This is so beautiful. Probably my favorite poem of all time. It is as if she had taken every thought that had crossed my mind about him, and put it into a poem.
I think y'all would like this, I wrote it & it relates so much *The Snow Globe I Broke*💦 The most beautiful sight, it seems, is water running over the bare skin of someone you love like tomorrow's pieces are missing because when nature meets your body like that, the world around you starts to tingle and the scene fits together like the inside of a snow globe dancing through the water, perfect enough that you cannot touch it until you break through the glass, and suddenly, everything is ruined. The untouchable hope you thrived on has been cast out, thrown through the holes into the glass, but all the same, you've never heard something so beautiful. Your passion still beats like a 40's record, the squirrels still cry out, patting their innocent little paws on your feet. Magic lasts past the ellipse, the hidden dream draws you out of your sphere compelling you to be in this moment to such an extent that the globe rebuilds itself and for a lone second, you see it again. You can see the water droplets trickle down his left arm, you still know him like you know your middle name. Now, it isn't the same. You can see the cracks in the glass and you understand that you created them, your lightning has been striking in the same place and his rugged scars feel like poison to your fingertips; you never meant to hurt him, to hurt us. You only know that now you can't run your fingers through the water the same way. He's a little bit further under now, and every time you reach out you push him down, closer to the rocks.
Kevin Decoteau I haven't explained to my parents yet that I write, and they're the helicopter type that wants to know where I go every time I leave the house
So you have to do it covertly? Too bad they can not let you be who you are and do what you do. I have a daughter and knew when she was growing up I had to let her go even when I wanted to know what she was doing and where she was going. Keep speaking, your voice is needed.
He told me he loved me then soon after he started dating my cousin. I still love him all these years later but I haven’t done anything about. And I will never be able to do anything about it. It hurts me even more because they are perfect for each other and I fear of a day I have to attend family events and he is there holding her hand.
Settle for target practice...I am in tears. Funny how Love works sometimes. You would think by now that I would be used to being just one of the guys...I love him...
I know exactly what that feels like. I'm going through the exact same thing as we speak. It's soul destroying. I want the pain to end but it won't. I've been in love with her for 15 years and the pain keeps getting worse and worse. But thankfully I'm about to reach my threshold very soon and hopefully then will I have the courage to end it myself
It has always been her, five years I waited and prayed and asked and finally she said yes. And in two short months I lost everything I’ve ever known, the only person I’ve ever loved, I lost my bestfriend and my lover all at once. I’m hurt in more ways than I can count. I hurt her, I hurt me, I can never get back what I once had. I’d give anything to feel the pain of talking to her about her new boyfriend again wishing it was me. I’d do anything to hold her one more time even for just a moment as I say goodnight and leave while he stays. I love her. I miss her.
We was in love, you were my first kiss and then all a sudden you and me are just friends Now your here loving another girl and I’m meant to be happy cause that’s what bestfriends do But did you ever, did you ever ask me if I still loved you or if I still get nervous When you look at me NO I just silently stay happy while I watch you , the person I love, love someone else.
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"My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly." God, that bit killed me!
I didn't sign the permission slip for this feels trip
^LOL
Julia Welches 😨😱
Julia Welches amen sistah lol
And the girl he's with is a mutual friend, so you want them BOTH to be happy but it just hurts so goddamn much.
i can relate to this so much
SAME 💔💔💔😭😭😭😢😢😢
DarkVlogs They're my two best friends but god I love him
Same
The girl he is with was my best friend. 😭😭😭😭
"Say yes too easily" that's how I'll always be with him.
" you are a souvenir shop, where he goes to remember how much people miss him when he's gone" .. oh dear god yep that's me! that how I feel, yep ... Oh gods.
It has always been him.
it's okay, i didn't need my heart anyway
My heart broke into pieces. Literally. The feeeeeels in this. I just wanna curl up in the corner of my bedroom and cry my heart out.
been coming back to this poem for 4 years now.. each time I listen a new part hits different. “Remind yourself this isn’t special, it’s only dinner. Everyone has to eat”... hopefully I can easily say no the next time he asks me over.
😭
“It has always been him.” The way her voice cracks when she says this broke me
When she said "her bobby pins" it hit me right in the feels and the tears came out as a flood. Lovely, yet painful.
Ana Sweetlolly same
I too was in love with my best friend for three years, it hurt so bad because I told him how I felt, twice and was rejected both times. We somehow still remained friends, and somehow I got lucky. He asked me out a year later, and we have been dating for over a year now. He has promised to make up for how he hurt me, for the rest of his life. I was so lucky.
HadesIsMisunderstood "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to." Phil Kaye
And remember that he asked you now. Both have taken leaps, maybe not at the same time, but both have landed in the same place. And may you walk together through both the dark... and the light.
From one stranger to another, all the luck and love that you can get in life.
***** What Phil Kaye poem is that from? I love him
It's a joint one he did with Sarah Kay titled 'When Love Arrives'. I heard it and I feel in love with slam poetry.
***** That was so good, thank you!
I hope you stay together and happy as long as you can
"I dream of you more often than I don't." This line and this poem has stuck with me for so many years and I have went back to this every time I find myself in this situation.
I thought about this poem after a heart breaking, gut wrenching text exchange with my “bestfriend” of 3 years. For so long I’ve been asking him to commit to me, take me seriously and today he basically but he would always say that he wasn’t ready because so many things were happening in his life. Then today he tells me he’s in a serious thing with someone and this time it’s “different.” HA! The pain of those words. Made me feel small, not worthy. I know all those things are untrue but it sure felt like it in the moment. This poem is everything I am feeling, glad to know that I’m not the only one to feel this pain.
I think I just died. To say that emotion stemmed from that poetry reading is relatable is an understatement. It took me a decade to get over someone which was hard cos he's a friend. And he's getting married. And my wasted heart will continue to try to cast him off my pedestal. I shld stop loving him. I've tried my best.
please try to understand that this is not only something that you ladies experience, but something that many of us fellas have to go through as well. very well done. powerful to me and relate-able. The changes in her voice make how she feels tangible to me, especially having been there before, and now. best of luck to you Sierra.
Heartbreaking poem .Heartbreaking delivery. I could feel those words shoot right through to every fibre of my being. The rawness is so palpable here, you can sense the pain in every single word.
I wish i couldnt feel every single word of this poem from the roots of my hair right down to my toe nails as if i had written it myself.
Watched this for the first time a year ago, and it's still relates to me. For over a year now I have been in love with slam poetry, it's my own secret that no one knows about. If they did, I would become even more of an outcast, so I watch on my own, watch others speak what I feel, let them describe this pain.
"my body is a dead language and u pronounce each word perfectly"
I saw this for the first time about four months ago. My boyfriend and I had just broken up and he had started dating another girl. This poem spoke to me then and still does now...but we've worked a lot of our problems out, and now we're happier than we've ever been before. So to all the people who are going through this, just hang in there. I know it feels like hell. I know you'd rather be anywhere than here and I know sometimes you just feel empty. But it will come to pass in some way. Just keep hanging in there.
I’ve been in love with one person for four years by now. I’ve watched as he’s fallen in love with another and all I can do is pray that he’s happy.
"My body is a dead language, and you pronounce each word perfectly." Well written/spoken. Thank you.
4 frikkin years... almost 5. Thank you! This was great.
This is so beautiful. Probably my favorite poem of all time. It is as if she had taken every thought that had crossed my mind about him, and put it into a poem.
This poem perfectly describes how I feel. It’s been over 5 years and I can’t stop loving him.
my body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly...
That was eloquent, I felt your pain as if I was reliving my own.
I still remember how it felt when I had a shot
This made me cry. amazing. I'm going through this right now so related so much.
Oh my God. Someone understands. I'm sobbing.
This is such a lovely piece- so much rawness and eloquence together.and I loved the way you performed it. Made me want to listen to more of your work!
This shed so many tears. Thank you.
Molly Royals ..I know!
I think y'all would like this, I wrote it & it relates so much
*The Snow Globe I Broke*💦
The most beautiful sight, it seems, is water running over the bare skin of someone you love like tomorrow's pieces are missing because when nature meets your body like that, the world around you starts to tingle and the scene fits together like the inside of a snow globe dancing through the water, perfect enough that you cannot touch it until you break through the glass, and suddenly, everything is ruined.
The untouchable hope you thrived on has been cast out, thrown through the holes into the glass, but all the same, you've never heard something so beautiful. Your passion still beats like a 40's record, the squirrels still cry out, patting their innocent little paws on your feet.
Magic lasts past the ellipse, the hidden dream draws you out of your sphere compelling you to be in this moment to such an extent that the globe rebuilds itself and for a lone second, you see it again. You can see the water droplets trickle down his left arm, you still know him like you know your middle name.
Now, it isn't the same. You can see the cracks in the glass and you understand that you created them, your lightning has been striking in the same place and his rugged scars feel like poison to your fingertips; you never meant to hurt him, to hurt us. You only know that now you can't run your fingers through the water the same way. He's a little bit further under now, and every time you reach out you push him down, closer to the rocks.
This is pretty good, you should start performing your poems.
Lorela Dema Thank you
+horsecrazy2266 Don't wait.
Kevin Decoteau I haven't explained to my parents yet that I write, and they're the helicopter type that wants to know where I go every time I leave the house
So you have to do it covertly? Too bad they can not let you be who you are and do what you do. I have a daughter and knew when she was growing up I had to let her go even when I wanted to know what she was doing and where she was going. Keep speaking, your voice is needed.
seriously this poem is so much of my heart I can bear it.
"my body is a dead language, and you speak every word perfectly" right in the feels ;_;
I love everything about this poem..... so much!
She's so pretty and talented, how could she have unrequited love?!?! I have no hope for my future now.
Still one of the best.🙌🏾👏🏾
my heart just sank
Just how I feel
Forever one of my favorites.
from the first day, for 9 years, its him.
Unbelievable.
I love the imagery in the kitchen and "target practice" blew my mind.
I feel this so much and just well fuck.
I’m not crying cause this is so relatable you are😂💔
I love the power in this. I was moved. Very nice.
I was in love with my best friend and all I got we're a whole bunch of poems like this and now he doesn't talk to me anymore.
It's been nearly 40 years! Still sharp as a knife!!
I've been in love with my best friend for almost 4 years and he gave me the I love you Platonic love that is
When he holds you through the night and swears hell never leave but goes home to her
This just killed me.
Ouch. So perfect.
LOVED EVERY PART.
god this hit the spot at 4am
He told me he loved me then soon after he started dating my cousin. I still love him all these years later but I haven’t done anything about. And I will never be able to do anything about it. It hurts me even more because they are perfect for each other and I fear of a day I have to attend family events and he is there holding her hand.
Totally understand where she's coming from.
I've probably watched this 100k times in the past 4 years
I am just sadder from listening to this nice poem
love is in the air I hope you have love for everyone
Settle for target practice...I am in tears. Funny how Love works sometimes. You would think by now that I would be used to being just one of the guys...I love him...
I love this so much. This explains exactly what im going through right now
I get it now
This was so beautiful. Thank you.
Bawling my eyes out
I know exactly what that feels like. I'm going through the exact same thing as we speak. It's soul destroying. I want the pain to end but it won't. I've been in love with her for 15 years and the pain keeps getting worse and worse. But thankfully I'm about to reach my threshold very soon and hopefully then will I have the courage to end it myself
this made me cry, such a heart felt poem
Sobbing.
one of my favorite poems.
"a soulmate isn't one who makes you the happiest but one who makes you feel the most"
Fantastic poem, describes it exactly.
I love this one
i cried
When you fall in love with someone who you should have never fallen in love with. Friends with Benefits situation. My heart aches so bad.
Beautiful words. It strikes true..
Beautiful.
The end was perfect
Ah this speaks to me
Needed this
Omg! I'm crying so hard😭😭😭😭
When I wrote a similar poem before I'd seen this one..my life is so fucking sad and no one I know understands
fell in love with a girl i meet this summer, she liked me back. I later realised she was hoping to get back together with her ex-girlfriend, she did.
first of all,same. then,is that LAUREN JAUREGUI?!😊
lmao yes
oh look, hi life thank you for summing yourself up in a poem 😭
its worse when you dated and went back to best friends.
Thank You...
wow. that was amazing.
OW! I felt it.
😓 thank you.
"Let him kiss you on the forehead, subtle for target practice." Spoke to me..
It hurts.
Shit... _ That hurts af
it is her.
it still is.
"Love is in the air"
Me: "Now I'm gonna kill it"
It has always been her, five years I waited and prayed and asked and finally she said yes. And in two short months I lost everything I’ve ever known, the only person I’ve ever loved, I lost my bestfriend and my lover all at once. I’m hurt in more ways than I can count. I hurt her, I hurt me, I can never get back what I once had. I’d give anything to feel the pain of talking to her about her new boyfriend again wishing it was me. I’d do anything to hold her one more time even for just a moment as I say goodnight and leave while he stays. I love her. I miss her.
Wow I have never related to something on the internet more
ouch.
that hit me like a sledgehammer in the groin.
We was in love, you were my first kiss and then all a sudden you and me are just friends
Now your here loving another girl and I’m meant to be happy cause that’s what bestfriends do
But did you ever, did you ever ask me if I still loved you or if I still get nervous When you look at me NO
I just silently stay happy while I watch you , the person I love, love someone else.
"my body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly."
the truth... thnk u.
Gaddam. This hurts