Edwin Bodney - When a Boy Tells You He Loves You

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  • @MACJunkie88
    @MACJunkie88 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7529

    "When a boy says i love you, he means i am getting ready to be inconsistent with you now"

    • @ennvee1989
      @ennvee1989 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      MACJunkie88 guurl i used to watch your videos yeaarrs ago!

    • @ennvee1989
      @ennvee1989 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      MACJunkie88 guurl i used to watch your videos yeaarrs ago!

    • @MoesFingers
      @MoesFingers 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Someone sounds like they have personal issues...

    • @dawg1510
      @dawg1510 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *vicariously snaps*

    • @UrbanAfricano93
      @UrbanAfricano93 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MACJunkie88 That was too deep

  • @Iluvmycowcow
    @Iluvmycowcow 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9320

    I like the poem of course, but can we talk about how soothing his voice is? His passion doesn't need raised raucous shouting, his throat delivers calm, assured denial, and I think my blood pressure dropped having heard this.

    • @mintpalmer
      @mintpalmer 10 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Yeah, it's funny. A lot of poets on this channel feel like they need to shout. While I can understand it conveys their emotions in a reading, I feel like the poem should speak for itself. It's also interesting, as being part of the English poetry scene, a lot of poets here tend to be slower and more deliberate. Interesting cultural differences.

    • @indieanna8007
      @indieanna8007 10 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      His voice is making me search for more...

    • @Fufupie
      @Fufupie 10 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      In the defense of all poets
      who shout in their speech
      I would like to say
      that we are poets
      our gift is in our words
      not in our voices
      yet we still wish to share our words with the world
      so we must speak it
      but if we were to speak in a calm voice
      it would become a monotone drone
      sucking the life out of the product of our life
      and some of us just lose ourselves in our words
      feeling our emotions from when we were writing
      swell up and burst
      spouting from our lips and without realizing
      we find ourselves shouting
      desperately hoping our words
      will echo through the hearts of the audience
      so that those listening
      may feel the way we do
      and respond to our cries
      with equally raucous cries of respect
      so I ask you
      do not degrade us poets who are forced to shout
      for we just poor souls
      lacking the skill of a soothing voice
      and easily swept away by our emotions
      we so long to project

    • @Idol_Na
      @Idol_Na 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Fufu Pie ♡♡

    • @ewstap9040
      @ewstap9040 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Iluvmycowcow ikr

  • @youjerkmuffin
    @youjerkmuffin 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4186

    "he is just a boy, remember? just another silly, sad boy, remember?" fuck, dude.

  • @christophergabbrants5064
    @christophergabbrants5064 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2805

    My interpretation: Love is in actions not words.

    • @chanchalakshijatariya4233
      @chanchalakshijatariya4233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      True that ..

    • @Nowhy
      @Nowhy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bingo

    • @chloem.872
      @chloem.872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I disagree... I think love exists in both words and actions and possibly in more spaces than you or i could imagine

    • @anivalsabilot552
      @anivalsabilot552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Actions can be ambiguous and misleading as words can be.....but actions supported by words and words supported by actions is the key to healthy relationship, cause by being consistent with your words and actions there will be no room for dubious fidelity and characters.

    • @kanyasigwanda2158
      @kanyasigwanda2158 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      “I Love You” isn’t something you say but you do.

  • @melfromhell
    @melfromhell 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5876

    i once had a boy tell me he loves me. now, he is a man who loves me still. i wish more people could experience love as it should be, and i wish less people were so scared of it.

    • @TheRetroWoman80
      @TheRetroWoman80 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I wish they could too. So sad.

    • @AM-wk5rk
      @AM-wk5rk 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      thiswarispointless. im so happy for you, hope you two will stay forever together!

    • @jayakhan9680
      @jayakhan9680 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      WELL YOU ARE THE ANOMALY MY FRIEND!!!!!!

    • @mayela48
      @mayela48 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mariam Khan "how can we be the anomaly"

    • @jayakhan9680
      @jayakhan9680 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      its "anomaly" and i was just saying that you dont find many boys like that here. Its very rare to experience what she is referring too.

  • @JosieOuiri
    @JosieOuiri 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2417

    "You will remember the day your courier pigeon heart got lost in the wind because that was a message you did not know how or where to carry. And one by one, the boys have fallen as silently as the birds do."

    • @daviswatkins1439
      @daviswatkins1439 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      dammit - so good.

    • @AS-gy7tu
      @AS-gy7tu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      As good as him

    • @Snigdha2409
      @Snigdha2409 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can you tell me what this particular part actually meant?

    • @victoriahawk1821
      @victoriahawk1821 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This was an amazing and sad line wasn't it? Just wow

  • @hellhasnobasement
    @hellhasnobasement 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8319

    I absolutely adore this.. I couldn't find a transcript for it so I wrote it out myself..
    "When a boy tells you he loves you, it’ll be the first time you hear this.
    It is late and he isn't even there to tell you this in person but instead from a car ride home from a bar in Chicago; he is there on business.
    And of course you will smile, because he sounds like he means it, because you believe him.
    Because a boy has never handed those words to you like crushed blackberries in the palms of his hands firm, young, full, waiting to taste sweet with you.
    His arms; creeping vines begging to touch the sun in your face saying “here, take everything I have ever touched to be closer to you”.
    His breath waiting to be folded into a love note passed in between the nape of your neck and his front teeth.
    He will remember the time you told him you felt safe in his mouth, and he will never grow hungry… just distant.
    When a boy tells you he loves you, you will hear music, the voice of your past lovers dancing up your throat; your stomach an after-hours cabaret still waiting on the last call.
    That was when you learned that when a boy says I love you he means I am getting ready to be inconsistent with you now.
    This boy will tell you that he loves you, not long after he had you waiting for two hours in front of a cocktail lounge.
    Patience is something you were working on but no, not for him.
    When asked, you to tell him that you love him back; you will be in the car in the parking lot of a late night diner you will watch the words fall into your lap like a spilled glass of white wine.
    You remember the day your core, your pigeon heart got lost in the wind because that was a message it did not know how or where to carry and one by one the boys have fallen as silently as the birds do.
    So eloquently they used to speak until I asked the questions that broke them into ghosts that bled me into a corpse with so many questions of my own for the soil but their tongues do not know simple; the things I should be hearing, the things that what make us living men in this time of insatiable yet dying lovers.
    When a boy tells you he loves you only to become silent like a folded sheet of tissue paper not wanting you to decrease him into the truth, do not crack your face into the fullest crescent moon at the tapered bottom of a blackened sky, he never meant a single word of any of it.
    He is just a boy, remember?
    He is just another silly, sad boy, remember?"

    • @kathrynhawthorne958
      @kathrynhawthorne958 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Thank you so much for this 😊

    • @taylorhall1094
      @taylorhall1094 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thanks

    • @winstonmiller9649
      @winstonmiller9649 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Thank you. It is interesting. it flows from the poet like a river. You can't catch a handful of it. You can't stop it. But thanks for slowing it down so I can hear it.👍🏽😊💕

    • @kyliepatricemagtagnob6847
      @kyliepatricemagtagnob6847 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks

    • @richawahyuni
      @richawahyuni 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you❣️

  • @shyrleimartinez2632
    @shyrleimartinez2632 7 ปีที่แล้ว +510

    "he will never grow hungry, just distant" OH MY SOUL

  • @cookiemonster-fw9hr
    @cookiemonster-fw9hr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    1:35 I like how he says "like a spilled glass of white wine" instead of red wine. With white wine it blends into your clothes and makes it look like a spot, difficult to see from afar. The same is with love, if you are blind enough you cannot see the blemish in your relationship - much less the blemish in the boy. Red wine is bold and vibrant. Love is not, you are often fooled.

  • @yesreneau
    @yesreneau 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1707

    The crescent moon line got me.

    • @M3RRY
      @M3RRY 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      YesReneau what was the meaning?

    • @tamannabhardwaj4474
      @tamannabhardwaj4474 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hey! Good to see you here!

    • @abiradas1992
      @abiradas1992 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      M3RRY it means the girl's smile

    • @karmabelieverI
      @karmabelieverI 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everything about moon just hits me. :)^_^;

    • @diyarahman621
      @diyarahman621 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Omg sem

  • @bookwormgirl000
    @bookwormgirl000 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1185

    his breath, waiting to be folded into a love note passed in between the nape of your neck and his front teeth
    ...how does he DO this

  • @sierraEllifritt
    @sierraEllifritt 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6804

    When a boy says he loves you. He means he'll make you feel loved one minute and then another he'll make you feel woorthless

    • @sierraEllifritt
      @sierraEllifritt 8 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Lol I missed spelled worthless

    • @crystalallen10
      @crystalallen10 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Amen , Preach ! the inconsistency is killing me

    • @MoonWave-
      @MoonWave- 8 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Sierra Lee not me..
      a girl told me this..crushed me...
      I'm not like the other guys...
      I respected her.. loved her.. gave my everything..
      and she didn't Care... not one bit..

    • @sateeva000
      @sateeva000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Ryan lincon ..will you ever care again?or will you end up like the rest of them..just douchès

    • @MultiGoldkehlchen
      @MultiGoldkehlchen 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sierra Lee .. if you're lucky

  • @lemmon3
    @lemmon3 9 ปีที่แล้ว +973

    "And one by one the boys have fallen as silently as the birds do. So eloquently they used to speak until I asked the questions that broke them into ghosts."

    • @zbrooo
      @zbrooo 9 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      +selina justine "That bled me into a corpse with so many questions of my own for the soil" Hands down my favourite poem of all time.

  • @happypandas2069
    @happypandas2069 8 ปีที่แล้ว +605

    His voice is beautiful and his delivery and metaphors are everything

  • @sohsaraaa
    @sohsaraaa 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1275

    The fact that it is a male saying it; instead of a female - makes every single word seem like bona fide.

    • @DeathIsLethal
      @DeathIsLethal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      that's not really the reason, but sure

    • @oingoboingo1720
      @oingoboingo1720 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DeathIsLethal the reason? Wym

    • @DeathIsLethal
      @DeathIsLethal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@oingoboingo1720 my comment is 8 months old, and I don't remember writing it, so I'm not sure what I meant tbh. I think I meant I might have been disagreeing about how they think that the speaker being male makes the poem more legitimate.

    • @oingoboingo1720
      @oingoboingo1720 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DeathIsLethal gotchu thanks

    • @Hiphop101ize
      @Hiphop101ize 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think he's gay, so

  • @Kylie-wg9mg
    @Kylie-wg9mg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3019

    its hard because i can hear this poem and thousands of poems warning me. its not real. but it feels real, because i've known many silly boys but this boy is the one thats going to break my heart and i think the scary part is i want him to

    • @batmanyasss6535
      @batmanyasss6535 8 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      this is EXACTLY how I feel

    • @ajriosishere
      @ajriosishere 8 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      We see you, we hear you

    • @leilanidababe8146
      @leilanidababe8146 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      sameee😭😪

    • @myamazingscreenname
      @myamazingscreenname 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      +Kylie New This is currently my favorite thing on the internet

    • @starkid77
      @starkid77 8 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      You know what you had to say I was reading it, but I felt the sound, I felt the feeling, maybe you should give us some spoken word too.

  • @mekylaalvarado5145
    @mekylaalvarado5145 10 ปีที่แล้ว +519

    "When a boy tells you I love you he means I'm going to start being inconsistent now" hit me like a ton of bricks.

  • @M3RRY
    @M3RRY 6 ปีที่แล้ว +663

    "only to become silent like a folded piece of tissue paper, not wanting you to decrease him to the TRUTH" oooh wee wee!

    • @kpv7438
      @kpv7438 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can you pls explain it

    • @sakshithakur2779
      @sakshithakur2779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@kpv7438 that if he makes so much of noise of this thing, you'll crush his feelings like a tissue to show his worth. Like the tissue have been used as a mataphor here..... so he goes silent fearing being crushed like a tissue

    • @kpv7438
      @kpv7438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sakshithakur2779 tysm 🙂

    • @kpv7438
      @kpv7438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sakshithakur2779 I did not get a point.. why is he saying that a boy does not really mean 'ILY' when he says it?
      Or does it mean that, past ILYs in a broken relationship wasn't really meaning it

    • @unrepentantoffender188
      @unrepentantoffender188 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kpv7438 if everything has to be spoonfed to you, just read a news article.

  • @janjr165
    @janjr165 7 ปีที่แล้ว +611

    LESSON: Don't choose a "boy" to begin a relationship with; choose a MAN.

    • @casstheangel3512
      @casstheangel3512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      And then prepare for that man to still behave like a boy often

    • @maryamali9880
      @maryamali9880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      what is the difference between men n boy ?

    • @casstheangel3512
      @casstheangel3512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Maryam Ali it’s all a maturity thing, that’s the same difference between a girl and a woman

    • @theltgamingplayz645
      @theltgamingplayz645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Just get yourself a women... 😂

    • @randomcomment7675
      @randomcomment7675 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Choose a human

  • @audrijapal405
    @audrijapal405 6 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    "He never meant a single word of any of it. He is just a boy, remember?"
    This got me

  • @keyralites
    @keyralites 9 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    "Patience is something you're working on, but no, not for him." shit got real.

  • @courtney7459
    @courtney7459 8 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    "You will see the words spill in to your lap like a glass of white wine" - that was my favorite line

    • @saimounikasudula1747
      @saimounikasudula1747 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      courtney Can you please explain its meaning for me?

    • @courtney7459
      @courtney7459 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      To me it means that something good was lost when you say I love you back- something sweet. Saying I love you to someone who you know does not love you is sad, and fake, and forced. That's why I really like that he used the word spill- as if saying it was unfortunate.

    • @saimounikasudula1747
      @saimounikasudula1747 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      courtney Thank you very much😊😊

  • @detox1462
    @detox1462 4 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    When I told her “I love you” I sought her out as she was continents away. When I told her “ I love you” she didn’t believe me. When I told her “I love you” she told me she doesn’t. When I told her “I love you” she said back off. When I told her “I love you” she said you shouldn’t. When I told her “I love you” she said why?. When I told her “I love you” she said I’m not serious. When I told her “I love you” she said I was silly. When I told her “I love you, you’re the one, and there isn’t anyone who would own your space in my heart” she said “I do love you, I just don’t think I’m worth it”. I told her, and told her, and told her. I told her “marry me” she believed me and now she’s my wife :)

  • @kcgurl123
    @kcgurl123 9 ปีที่แล้ว +526

    "He is just a silly, sad boy. Remember?"

  • @RoverBot1
    @RoverBot1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    Who hurt you? :'(

  • @charlicharliluv4245
    @charlicharliluv4245 8 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    "When a boy says he loves you it means i am getting ready to be inconsistant with you now" omg truth

  • @tigergirl305
    @tigergirl305 8 ปีที่แล้ว +495

    Lol okay I guess I'll just stay single forever because I have seen too many poems like this one warning me

    • @Missriroo
      @Missriroo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I totally agree 😭

    • @tpainbaby66
      @tpainbaby66 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Single Gang for life 💯

    • @sprt1317
      @sprt1317 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn Idk falling in love and feeling such raw emotion and making memories is dank whether you feel heartbroken or just in love

    • @Saveara.
      @Saveara. 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      try it

    • @aj9532
      @aj9532 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i swear its better to be single

  • @jessicanicole4350
    @jessicanicole4350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Ah we meet again. Every time I get my heart broken I return to this.

  • @kellyo1202
    @kellyo1202 10 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    If this poem had been shouted, it would've made me nod my head in agreement and grimace at the memories it brought. Because it wasn't, it broke my heart instead.

  • @elliemay6390
    @elliemay6390 7 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    A boy is breaking my heart. I'm waiting for him to be a man.. don't think I should wait

    • @take_a_break.5124
      @take_a_break.5124 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      You should never wait for him love, those who break u at first can never mend u later. Plz get out of this

    • @katarinasirait6581
      @katarinasirait6581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      do not sit idle. get urself worth more than he can never imagine.

  • @zafirahzharpay
    @zafirahzharpay 7 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    okay where has this channel been all my life 😱😱

    • @ButtonPoetry
      @ButtonPoetry  7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Glad you're here! :)

    • @ickyleg4282
      @ickyleg4282 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      zafirah zee exactly I'm sitting here wondering the same thing

  • @kkoorrnnyy
    @kkoorrnnyy 9 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    "When a boy says he loves you, he means 'I am getting ready to be inconsistent with you now."

  • @rosa.00_
    @rosa.00_ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    beautiful voice and powerful words

  • @moonshadowsmusic
    @moonshadowsmusic 7 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    When a boy tells you he loves you
    it’ll be the first time you hear this.
    It is late and he isn’t even here to tell you this in person but instead
    from a car ride home from a bar in Chicago, he is there on business.
    And of course you will smile because he sounds like he means it.
    Because you believe him, because a boy has never handed those words to you like
    crushed blackberries in the palms of his hands, firm, young, full
    waiting to taste sweet with you.
    His arms, creeping vines begging to touch the sun and your face saying,
    “Here, take everything I have ever touched to be closer to you.”
    His breath, waiting to be folded into a love note passing in between
    the nape of your neck and his front teeth.
    He will remember the time you told him you felt safe in his mouth
    and he will never grow hungry…just distant.
    When a boy tells you he loves you, you will hear music,
    the voice of your past lovers dancing up your throat,
    Your stomach in after-hours cabaret still waiting on the last call.
    That was when you learned that when a boy says I love you
    he means I am getting ready to be inconsistent with you now.
    This boy will tell you that he loves you,
    not long after he had you waiting for two hours in front of a cocktail lounge
    Patience is something you were working on but no…not for him.
    When he asks for you to tell him that you love him back
    you will be in the car, in the parking lot of a late night diner.
    You will watch the words fall into your lap like a spilled glass of white wine.
    You will remember the day your courier pigeon heart got lost in the wind
    because that was a message it did not know how or where to carry.
    And one by one the boys have fallen as silently as the birds do.
    So eloquently they used to speak until I ask the questions that broke them into ghosts,
    that bled me into a corpse with so many questions of my own for the soil.
    But their tongues do not know simple. The things I should be hearing,
    the things that will make us living men in this time of insatiable yet dying lovers.
    When a boy tells you he loves you only to become silent
    like a folded sheet of tissue paper,
    not wanting you to decrease him into the truth,
    do not crack your face into the fullest crescent moon
    at the tapered bottom of a blackened sky.
    He never meant a single word of any of it.
    He is just a boy remember?
    He is just another silly sad boy,
    remember?

  • @SketchyLemonade
    @SketchyLemonade 9 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    The kind of disrespect when u plays iggys voice after something so beautiful

    • @awesomelashay6033
      @awesomelashay6033 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ikr. so not cool. -_-

    • @kotaku636
      @kotaku636 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Exactly like *_what type of rudeness_*

    • @itsthatgirl1148
      @itsthatgirl1148 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Praising ones work should not mean downgrading anothers . Unlearn that .

  • @ericmike12
    @ericmike12 9 ปีที่แล้ว +427

    I dont know about other guys but
    When I tell my girlfriend I love her, maybe what i say isnt truly what I mean. Because what I mean is so much more than a single word can ever define. I thought I had felt love before but it was never in this way. From the moment I saw her face to the moment she spoke her first words to me I knew I was in love with her. I knew that from that moment on nothing else mattered. Nothing except for this one moment I was in right now that would decide whether or not I get to spend my life with this, beautiful girl. Beautiful cannot define her either. She puts the word beautiful to shame. Her mind is like a sparkling diamond hidden away in a safe. It might take a while to get in and see whats inside. Turning the combination lock, hoping you hear the click that lets you in. but once you do you are overwhelmed with joy and awe. And once the safe was opened and the light was let in, it reflected off her, like a diamond and proceeded to light up my previously dark and sad world. She isnt just a girl I fell in love with. She's my saviour. She's my everything. She's my soul mate. I know we were always destined for each other. Its like looking for a new, beautiful, magnificent work of art for your home. You dont know exactly what you are looking for. Just for something that maybe catches your eye. But then you see it. The one most exquisite work of art that is so beautiful that you start crying tears of joy. That's what its like with her. and just like that work of art I want her in my home, with me forever and ever. You see every second of every day theres nothing on my mind other than her. She is the only thing that makes me happy in this world. She saved me. And I love her. I love her with everything in me. and I know I love her. And I know from the look in her eyes and that beautiful smile she gets when I tell, that when I say I love her, it means everything.

    • @maiying2874
      @maiying2874 9 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Your words are too beautiful! Your girl is the luckiest!!!

    • @ashleyjean2097
      @ashleyjean2097 9 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      that is because you are not a BOY you are a MAN there is a huge difference everything that was said in that poem obviously describes things only boys would do , boys who havnt realized the true meaning of love, boys who are lost and are only after one thing

    • @misssource3106
      @misssource3106 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Eric McIntyre waw,amazing. you're a man, , not a boy!

    • @devyn5174
      @devyn5174 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Eric McIntyre I feel like you could have condensed this down to a few sentences.

    • @sayanit7123
      @sayanit7123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Not "another silly sad boy"..

  • @writerspen010
    @writerspen010 10 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I hope we get a follow up named "When A Man Tells You He Loves You."

  • @thedrawingmuffins
    @thedrawingmuffins 8 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Wow, I just got my heart broken by a boy to, and this described the whole situation.

  • @xblackflutex
    @xblackflutex 10 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    That voice is like silk. Can I get Shakespeare on audio tape in that please??? Also, brilliant poetry!

  • @rachelmarquez9436
    @rachelmarquez9436 9 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    "If only I heard this years ago" what someone's comment said. I have not yet been in love, but I'm glad I read this now and heard this poem now. BC I am afraid of falling in love I'm afraid because if I don't love myself how can I love another, esp if they are also a broken soul like me. I'm afraid, this is preparation. I'm 16, is it bad that I haven't even had my first kiss?

    • @Lavenderia554
      @Lavenderia554 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Rachel Marquez I'm 17 and I haven't even been on a date. I somehow understand you. :) It's okay.

    • @RitsychServare
      @RitsychServare 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Rachel Marquez Not at all. It just means that you're not wasting what's preciously yours for someone you don't know for certain deserves you. And it'll be worth the wait.

    • @termite6854
      @termite6854 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I'm in college and I haven't had my first kiss either don't worry about it

    • @nyahdias9591
      @nyahdias9591 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Falling in love is only great if that person loves you back or else you will look like a fool. Heartbreak is the hardest thing to go through because its likeman addiction to that person and what they did to hurt you just facts

    • @feathergirl5343
      @feathergirl5343 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Rachel Marquez i'm almost 18 and i have never been kissed. I don't know i if they would have done if i had let them. I didn't know i was not letting them until it was too late and it is the same every time. I have had people say i love you but haven't been brave enough to listen, to hear, let alone say it back. I too am afraid to love. To love my self as well as others and i am terrofied of saying "i love you". But i have loved and have been loved and i surounded by people who love me and i love them back even though all too often i am afraid to admit it. And i should remember this and so should you and so should we all.

  • @ArchanaShresthathesubtlesigh
    @ArchanaShresthathesubtlesigh 10 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    After Sarah Kay's "The Type", it was high time I hadn't assaulted the replay button the way I am doing now. This is simply beautiful and his voice does all the charms.
    "Because the boy has never handed you those words like a crushed black berries in the palms of his hand..firm, young, full, waiting to taste sweet with you.
    " Patience is something you are working on.
    "..One by one the boy has fallen silently as the birds do.
    "..only to become silent like a folded sheet of tissue paper."
    Man, is this beautiful!

    • @akirajounetsui
      @akirajounetsui 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sara Kay and Kaye are my favorite poets just like Edwin, Akeemjamal, and many more,.

    • @poetryandshit
      @poetryandshit 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You said it! You said what I was intending on saying! Thanks a ton!!

    • @justshanban279
      @justshanban279 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea I was thinking the same which is dope allowing others to inspire us to create something

  • @eron2216
    @eron2216 10 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Blackberries, sweet and lush, flesh-feeling when ripe..
    Rotten, rancid, and rank four days later.

    • @brennahasselmann8075
      @brennahasselmann8075 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What is this from? I didn't hear this in the poem...was he referring to another poem?

    • @devyn5174
      @devyn5174 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brenna Hasselmann the speaker mentioned blackberries in the poem.

    • @DeathIsLethal
      @DeathIsLethal 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Errm, you're aware of this magical invention called a refrigerator, right?

  • @sarastepp7665
    @sarastepp7665 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "He will never grow hungry, just distant". I have listened to this piece over and over. Each time a different line sticks out to me. This is art. It make you uncomfortable because it makes you understand.

    • @hammier1.033
      @hammier1.033 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sara Stepp the last line “he is a just a boy, just a lonely silly boy remember”

  • @lovedance4ever73
    @lovedance4ever73 8 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    "A [boy] has no name" sorry, I had to say it...

  • @molsers
    @molsers 10 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    this was beautiful and the person's voice was so soft and calming

  • @harsheebeauty
    @harsheebeauty 7 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    the comments are sad... you guys need to stop talking to boys like that. Boys are wonderful alot of them are sensitive and loving, let's get rid of the stereotype of boys lying and not actually wanting you

    • @kingdarious9244
      @kingdarious9244 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Preach🙌

    • @katherinehollon6495
      @katherinehollon6495 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      soda pop there is a very strong difference between a boy and an man.

    • @harsheebeauty
      @harsheebeauty 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Katherine Hollon yes I know there is

    • @hewanlegesse8139
      @hewanlegesse8139 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      True!!! We women are as inconsistent as hell at times too lol

  • @sillystring3321
    @sillystring3321 8 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    this made me so uncomfortable... thank you.

  • @caroleugenepark7599
    @caroleugenepark7599 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Many years later, this poem still gets me in my feels. What a masterpiece.

  • @sephmaz4887
    @sephmaz4887 10 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    When beauty is disguised in such calmness and depth, you can only respond with a simple inhale, exhale of air and the wrenching of your heart. This poem, his voice and the words, are beautiful.

  • @mbaliey1476
    @mbaliey1476 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    You will watch the words fall onto your lap like a spilled glass of white wine...Hoooo

  • @callmeclaire8188
    @callmeclaire8188 10 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    That made my stomach flip and flop because, to me, every word said was true.

  • @JRob594
    @JRob594 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Check out my poem called Special Girl: When I first saw you girl you blew my mind standing there looking finer than a glass of wine I was checking you out from your head to your feet I instantly knew you was the girl that I seek. You had the brightest smile no one can compare I even love your perfume and the way you wear your hair. Some people might say I'm a little insane but everytime I'm around you, all common sense leaves my brain. You a special girl I knew that right from the start with beautiful eyes and very gentle heart. You had me at hello, but of course I had to try harder but I don't mind I know we can go farther. Beyond the moon and the stars and the skies above, you a special girl that I shall shower with love. I know you don't think that I'm your type of guy but all I'm asking is for you to trust me I wouldn't tell you no lie. So go ahead take a chance allow yourself to be free and I promise special girl you'll enjoy being with me.

  • @sarasquashed
    @sarasquashed ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I must have first watched this when I was 15. I'm 22 now, and a boy just last year told me he loved me. He never meant a single word of it.

  • @JustSayYesMaam
    @JustSayYesMaam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Short version of this poem: When a boy tells you he loves you, he's lying.

  • @Figs3
    @Figs3 8 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I have seen this live, you should all know that it is JUST as AMAZING!

    • @juniper10
      @juniper10 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Figs3 wow!! You saw it live?!!!!

    • @Figs3
      @Figs3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@juniper10 Edwin is a friend of mine. He's such a great guy and I've seen him preform this. It still makes me just as speechless as the first time I heard it.

  • @coachomri5468
    @coachomri5468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Happilly in a relationship for 2 years now, when I told her, I meant it .
    also, Im an "exfuckboy" if you will, I tried to get intimate with her no further intentions, and boy I fell in love head over heals and gave up any risky move that couldve ruin my chances with that girl.. and we took everything slow I was sensitive and gentle and things happened far faster than I expected because I fair and square earned her trust .
    To all of you girls, who had been heartbroken because of doucbags or fuckboys, know that it wouldnt have ended any better in the first place, if there were a chemistry and he truly liked you he would never dare to make you feel remotly uncomfortable ...
    im avialable for questions and comments, promise to answer them all

  • @dewaldminnie9480
    @dewaldminnie9480 7 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    "Do not crack your face into the fullest crescent moon
    at the tapered bottom of a
    blackened sky."
    Omg. I love poets.

  • @SpitfireDramaQueen
    @SpitfireDramaQueen 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I listened to this piece and felt the urge to cry- yet was so moved that I was rendered motionless. I remember loving such a boy, only he was half-true- half inconsistent, and yet when he wasn't, consumed me with love. What a fretful dilemma indeed, to love and not be loved at the same time.

  • @deatbeatdaisies
    @deatbeatdaisies 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "he is just a boy,remember" holy crap

  • @miaka183
    @miaka183 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "He is just another silly sad boy, remember?" Ouch...
    For some reason, he reminds me of Sarah Kay.

  • @cassipiedra9946
    @cassipiedra9946 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "When a boy tells you he loves you
    it’ll be the first time you hear this.
    It is late and he isn’t even here to tell you this in person but instead
    from a car ride home from a bar in Chicago, he is there on business.
    And of course you will smile because he sounds like he means it.
    Because you believe him, because a boy has never handed those words to you like
    crushed blackberries in the palms of his hands, firm, young, full
    waiting to taste sweet with you.
    His arms, creeping vines begging to touch the sun and your face saying,
    “Here, take everything I have ever touched to be closer to you.”
    His breath, waiting to be folded into a love note passing in between
    the nape of your neck and his front teeth.
    He will remember the time you told him you felt safe in his mouth
    and he will never grow hungry…just distant.
    When a boy tells you he loves you, you will hear music,
    the voice of your past lovers dancing up your throat,
    Your stomach in after-hours cabaret still waiting on the last call.
    That was when you learned that when a boy says I love you
    he means I am getting ready to be inconsistent with you now.
    This boy will tell you that he loves you,
    not long after he had you waiting for two hours in front of a cocktail lounge
    Patience is something you were working on but no…not for him.
    When he asks for you to tell him that you love him back
    you will be in the car, in the parking lot of a late night diner.
    You will watch the words fall into your lap like a spilled glass of white wine.
    You will remember the day your courier pigeon heart got lost in the wind
    because that was a message it did not know how or where to carry.
    And one by one the boys have fallen as silently as the birds do.
    So eloquently they used to speak until I ask the questions that broke them into ghosts,
    that bled me into a corpse with so many questions of my own for the soil.
    But their tongues do not know simple. The things I should be hearing,
    the things that will make us living men in this time of insatiable yet dying lovers.
    When a boy tells you he loves you only to become silent
    like a folded sheet of tissue paper,
    not wanting you to decrease him into the truth,
    do not crack your face into the fullest crescent moon
    at the tapered bottom of a blackened sky.
    He never meant a single word of any of it.
    He is just a boy remember?
    He is just another silly sad boy,
    remember?"

  • @shantcheetah
    @shantcheetah 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What most people don’t understand is the word “love” is a very deep word..

  • @blueman18423
    @blueman18423 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This is probably one of the only poems that have ever truly resonated with me, both in the message and the speaking style of the poet. Absolutely incredible piece.

  • @victoriawang8141
    @victoriawang8141 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    is it weird that i find this man beautiful
    like just beautiful
    no strings attached

  • @ntombi-yensimbinarrates7297
    @ntombi-yensimbinarrates7297 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As a recently single lady, who used to have this poem on replay before I dated him, I get it. The inconsistency, I saw it. The distance, I felt it.

  • @oloriokoro992
    @oloriokoro992 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    OOOHHH IF I HAD ONLY HEARD THIS YYYEARS AGO... *sigh* SO CREATIVE... EYES WIDE SHUT AND BITTERLY TRUTFUL...

  • @VeralBoni
    @VeralBoni 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "He is just a silly, sad boy remember?" THIS LINE MADE MY HEART BURST OPEN. I have strongly identified my current feelings with this particular poem. I am generally emotional but this poem is so beautifully written that I thank you so much for this. I felt understood and now I understand.

  • @maple34230
    @maple34230 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can someone explain? I don't really understand this poem.. thank you

    • @MissNayNay
      @MissNayNay 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lulubeloo Yeah, that's basically it. No lies told, though.

  • @ajmagoov2
    @ajmagoov2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I've told two girls I loved them, but the inconsistency was not on my part, and the heartbreak was not on theirs. But this is still a brilliant poem.

  • @ahgajaye
    @ahgajaye 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    the way he ended was so perfect

  • @badfi5hie
    @badfi5hie 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    this is honestly one of the best videos to be uploaded on this channel in a while

  • @oliviapete
    @oliviapete 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Do not crack your face into the fullest crescent moon at the tapered bottom of a blackened sky"

  • @freezyrachel5974
    @freezyrachel5974 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I am screaming and i have been screaming since 5 min 😱 ... I listened to it thrice. Wow 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I love it

  • @oliviavoyles1420
    @oliviavoyles1420 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This breaks my heart to think that people actually go through that and that is how they feel about love.

  • @simplyjustsloan
    @simplyjustsloan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Literally about to cry. Relates to me current situation so much.

  • @oliviasailor9671
    @oliviasailor9671 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A boy told me he loved me the other day. So I came here.

  • @yellow8879
    @yellow8879 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    When a boy tells you he love you
    He will ruin you like big time

  • @misfittastic
    @misfittastic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    i come back to this poem every so often, it holds a dear place for me, thank you even after al these years

  • @amnasplaylists
    @amnasplaylists 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Oh my god that was amazing. I didn't realize I was holding my breath until it ended. It was beautiful

  • @maureenarbas5428
    @maureenarbas5428 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "When a boy says I love you, he means I am getting ready to be inconsistent with you now" fuck

    • @M3RRY
      @M3RRY 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maureen Arbas yeeeesss

  • @tallis.andrea
    @tallis.andrea 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Such beautiful use of language. Whether you can relate or not, the words and flow of the poem are gorgeous. Fantastic work and recitation💕💕💕

  • @siyethembabota
    @siyethembabota ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I keep coming back to this poem, it's just so beautiful and it was definitely well delivered.

  • @hiljgee9754
    @hiljgee9754 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I am ready to be inconsistent with you, now.

  • @anonimust4203
    @anonimust4203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    the words leave his mouth so peacefully and soothingly, very beautifully delivered.

  • @silverstarz4
    @silverstarz4 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    the way he says it whoa

  • @KLUVATL
    @KLUVATL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's 2021 and this is my first time hearing this...Chills throughout...the delivery...my soul is moved.

  • @anewloveofficial9137
    @anewloveofficial9137 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Saying "I love you" to someone these days is like giving it without actually mean it. I've always heard it to men I loved before but I realized that I was not the only one loved by him. Sometimes you don't have to believe everything a person says to you unless if you see it through his actions. I'd rather have someone who is not that expressive in words but cares for me like no man could ever love me.

  • @jaylaholman63
    @jaylaholman63 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This makes me think, about a boy, he tells me constantly that he loves me, he's not mine. He's in love with another, there is a difference. I'm in love with him and he just uses the word like its a reassurance.

  • @Chrissanthumum
    @Chrissanthumum 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Instant subscriber.This was awesome.Spoken word is awdsome.

  • @swaburaqueennyamuneza2525
    @swaburaqueennyamuneza2525 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Still
    Listen to
    This countless times I don’t outgrow this poem
    When a boy tells you he loves you it means he’s ready to be inconsistent but remember he’s just another silly boy oooh 😢

  • @yueqing666
    @yueqing666 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This. Was. Beautiful.

  • @erwstories9065
    @erwstories9065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    one of the best pieces of poetry till this day.

  • @sarvitalks7522
    @sarvitalks7522 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My head grew clear after listening to this

  • @EjvindGEMDark
    @EjvindGEMDark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I got stood up by a friend once, left in a train station for ten hours after travelling 125 miles. Heart wrenching, even though I knew it wasn't reciprocated. 125 miles home, alone, crying. Fun times.

  • @55sweetheart55
    @55sweetheart55 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I feel like he is talking about himself ? I wonder, something about guilt or remorse in his voice. Beautiful voice :) such a moving piece, can't help but cry listening to this.

  • @yorutempest3300
    @yorutempest3300 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Didn't realize it has been 9 years, I still listen to this, it just makes me feel things I can't explain. It really is beautifully written and delivered. ❤

  • @purple438
    @purple438 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And here I am, back to this poem again.

  • @horsecrazy2266
    @horsecrazy2266 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    God if you pause it at 1:01 :( his face. I'm so sorry, honey

  • @closetfrerardway7698
    @closetfrerardway7698 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love this channel so much. It has saved my life and continues to give me something to live for.

    • @TheRetroWoman80
      @TheRetroWoman80 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow. That's so good to hear. Good for you. I hope it continues to do positive and enlightening wonders for you life.

  • @raspberryboo2
    @raspberryboo2 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "he is just another silly sad boy, remember"