Neil Hilborn - This Is Not the End of the World
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
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"Love how you hate yourself...because at least there is still something to hate."
My eyes are leaking.
Raksha Kannan thats my favourite line. but to be honest this whole poem makes me weep
This is not to say you aren't special
This is to say, thank god you aren't
There lies so much depth in those sentences
Tosh Sharma and it means so much. I've found my identity in being different, being unlike everyone else in any way possible. So when I was diagnosed with depression, like every other teenager on the planet my age, and I wanted to kill myself, just like everyone else, I found no comfort in the words "you are not alone" because I was alone, and in some ways I liked it, I was unpredictable. This line hit me so hard..
I hope someone else relates to this
Tosh Sharma
"Isolation isn't safety its death
If no one knows you're alive, you aren't."
"Other people are the life to which you provide the meaning"
The exact lines that hit me
Hilborn, thank you for speaking for us: the broken, the lost, the isolated, the dying, and the surviving.
Marshall Frost
Fuck, I hate how perfectly you summed that (us) up
Nika Scheepers I love the way you appreciated it :)
this comment itself alone is art, wow 💕
Marshall Frost agreed
This hits me even harder.😶
"If you want to continue existing, do something."
"This Is Not the End of the World” (transcript)
I’ve been hearing that the world is ending
I’ve heard it so much this days that
I can either completely ignore it or
never leave my house again
that is if I actually left my house
for things that don't directly enable me to keep my house
see
I’ve been thinking about driving nowhere
I’ve been thinking about becoming a box inside a locked room
inside a dark house at the dark end of the street
I want to go away until I'm gone
it take so much less energy to not exist
than it does to exist and get burned
I’ve been burned so much I am not me anymore
I’m a stupid poppet version of me
I got strings that lead to nowhere
nothing is pulling on me
I wish someone would drag my hand out of hiding
and sign my name on the dotted line
there are days when I can’t find the sun
even though it’s right outside my window
when getting out of bed feels like the key in the doomsdays machine
so on those days
this is what I tell myself
whatever you are feeling right now
there’s a mathematical certainty that
someone else is feeling that exact thing
this is not to say you aren't special
this is to say thank God you aren't special
I too have kissed no one good night
I’ve launched myself from tall places
and hoped no one would catch me
I’ve ended relationships because suddenly I was also exposed
but isolation is not safety
It’s death
If no one knows you are alive
you aren't
if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it
it does make a sound but then that sound is gone
I am not saying you’ll find the meaning of life in other people
I’m saying other people are the life to which you provide the meaning
see
(we are) wrong when we say I think therefore I am
the more we say it the more it sounds like
I think therefore I will be
you can’t think your way into a full table
you can’t think and makes walls and a roof appear around you
I have thought and thought myself in a corners made of words and nightmares
and what has it gotten me but more thoughts
a currency that only buys more currency
so please
if you wanna continue existing
do something
learn to make clouds using only your breath
build a house even if every wall leans to the left
love it anyway
just like a season
just like a child
love how you hate yourself sometimes
because at least there’s still something to hate
I know how easy it can be to think
and keep thinking until you are the last person left on Earth
until the entire world becomes no larger than the space between
your bed and the light switch
but
I hear the world’s ending soon
when we go
and we’re all gonna go
I will be part of it
-Neil Hilborn
Holy cow! Thanks for the likes guys!!
Juliana Ramos thank you :)
Juliana Ramos Thank you'
Who else has this poem on his mind during covid 19 and self isolation thing? :(
been the mood lately
Been feeling this a lot lately:( stay strong though💙 we’ll get through this
"I have thought and thought myself into corners made of words and nightmares and what has it gotten me but MORE thughts."
~I don't think I've ever related to a line in a poem as much as I do to this one.
The three people who disliked were crying so hard they thought the thumbs down was a thumbs up
Maya A Thanks for reminding me to double check
I checked again...I guess I hit the thumb's up.🌼
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I can relate
"i'm not saying you find the meaning of life in other people. i'm saying other people are the life to which you provide the meaning"
wow, this is something i need to remind myself everyday.
Beautiful poem. I always listen to Neil when I'm in a bad place. If he ever reads this comment, I want him to know how much he's helped me. Thank you!
"I've been burned so much I'm not me anymore" THISSSS
damn yeah
Thats how the Phoenix rises.
NEIL YOURE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE
Domi Mróz I LOVE Y O U
HE'S SO CUTE
“I wanna go away until I’m gone”
This just hits me because sometimes I want to not exist. I don’t want to die, more like I wish I had never been even a concept, just never existed
This is one of my favourite poems of Neil's book but listening to it instead of reading it is a completely different experience, it has made me shiver
Sara Paolella He has such a powerful voice.
This is actually my favorite poem of all time. There's an old video of it somewhere and it's in his book as "here and away" and I love the piece more than anything. In fact, I've been considering getting a tattoo based on it because of the profound impact this piece has had on my life. Thank you, Neil, for creating this.
Madlyn Kates what's his book called?
tylerrjoseph His book is Our Numbered Days :)
Madlyn Kates same same same same
Ahh I've been thinking about getting a tattoo from it too. I think I'm going to get a house with the walls leaning to the left
Alice B. Chamberlain I
"Thank God you aren't special"
"There are days when I cant find the sun, even though it's right outside my window" :o
I really needed this right now. I isolate myself cause I'm a downer right now, and I don't want to hurt my friends further. Despite them telling me they want to see me, my anxiety convinces me that they're lying and that truly, no one wants to be around me.
But... I shouldn't let fear stop me from existing. I'm gonna try. I swear.
Honestly, I'm always coming back to his poems. When I'm bored, when I'm sad, or at night when I'm lonely, like I am now. I always find a way back to his poetry because I guess it's calming to know that you're not alone. He has such an amazing way of capturing feelings and explaining them onto paper. And after every poem I listen to, or read, I think: "this is my favourite one yet". But then I'll find another one and I will love it as much as the first. That continues to do so until I'm calm enough to sleep. So yes, I don't have a favourite poem of you, Neil. But I'm sure that I've found my favourite poet. Thank you for creating such beautiful art, and sharing it with the world (who clearly needs it).
Neil puts so much power in his poems, for some it gives that cliche "spoken word poem" sound, but Neil just comes off as genuine every time. Great guy to listen to.
"Love how you hate yourself sometimes, because at least there's still something to hate"
Fuck.
This is an older poem that he's done some editing on. It's interesting to watch how the poems grow and change.
Neil, your poetry has saved my life.
I love Neil's poems, used a bunch of them in a poetry unit in English and the teacher even loved it❤❤❤❤
I'm not sure who I'm sending this to, but I'm sending it to someone
Gwyn Brady same . Too much risk
"So please, if you want to continue existing, do something." Love this.
I revisit this poem time and time again whenever life is at its ugliest. To remind myself I'm still lucky to be a part of it.
This poem has been my safety net for so many years, I repeat specific lines in my head when I’m feeling “those exact things.” It has been one of the few things that make me feel like I’m not alone. Thank you for producing this, you help people feel understood.
THIS IS THE FASTEST I HAVE EVER CLICKED A NOTIF
Lexie Jordan MEE TOO
Lexie Jordan SAME
SAMEEE
me too.
Lol notification for Neil I actually look at anything else is practically irrelevant
*snaps* quietly in my room, as I watch by myself with watery eyes.
I think about the line "this isn't to say you're not special this is to say thank God your not special" a lot. not sure why it sticks in my head but god do I love all his stuff
After being a shut in for three years I have finally been able to get a normal life back. I started to go to uni again, started to simply feel alive again. And this one means so much to me cause I can relate to every freaking sentence. And just knowing I wasn't alone in that Dark place makes me feel so much better, and it isn't because you know that someone else feels the same, but because you are kinda connected through pain. Thanks for this.
God he is such a magical person. His poetry is so beautiful
My world has been the distance between my bed and the light switch for two weeks. I’ve watched this 5 times in a row now. I really needed to hear this tonight.
For whatever its worth, this is one of the few things that has brought me comfort on the worst days. Thank you.
Came here again after 6yrs just to appreciate how well this is crafted and how it moulded my life, intertwined in it. ❤
His voice speaks with such strength and conviction. He gives a voice to those of us who, though we all have one, may have fear to use it, but may not know how. He makes me nod a lot during his poems and go..."THAT'S *ME*. HE GETS ME!"
i swear he just gets sadder
C. Katniss :(
C. Katniss I find this one quite hopeful. Very relatable and subtly tragic. But kind of uplifting too.
LocalAtlantis 89 i agree. his tone is a bit darker than his other versions of this but the way he says 'but' near the end holds so much hope
This broke my heart :(
“A currency that can only buy MORE currency”
One of my all time favorite lines in poetry, its so multiuseful
Neil's poetry is so perfect
Every time I listen to this poem it’s a different line that helps me get through whatever I’m going through.
This feels so relevant right now
"Learn to make clouds out of your breath."
*Vape nation busts through the door.*
Exactly what I was thinking
Trinity Frank in tears and then I read this lol
LITERALLY VAPING WHILE WATCHING THIS & DIED
SAAAAME
lol
i've been watching his other performance of this since it came out and when i saw this i clicked it before i even knew i did
this poem has been so important to me for so long i love neil's words and the look on his face when he performs
"Love how you hate yourself sometimes, because at least there is still something to hate. I know how easy can be to think and keep thinking until you are the last person left on earth - until the entire world becomes no larger than the space between your bed and the light switch. But I hear the world is ending soon. When we go... and we're all gonna go... I will be part of it".
It gets me every single time. This poem means a lot to me.
introvert poem. love this.
“Whatever you’re feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone else is feeling that exact thing, this is not to say you aren’t special, this is to say thank god you aren’t special”💜
"I hear the world is ending soon
when we go
when we all go
I will be apart of it"
favorite line
This hits so close to home for me. I have always been an over thinker and have thought way too much over the smallest things and worried myself into not doing anything, but I have to remind myself that thinking never accomplished anything. Yeah, it’s good to think things over, but you eventually have to do said things, or else everything you thought will be meaningless.
This poem is Here and Away in his book and by god it is the best poem he has ever written. ❤️
I always have and always will turn to this. Thank you.
Me: I’m going to bed early so I’m not exhausted for work tomorrow.
Me, at midnight sobbing to Neil again: I guess not
"If you want to continue existing, do something.. Learn to make clouds using only your breath, build a house even if every wall leans to the left, love it anyway. Just like a season, just like a child, love how you hate yourself sometimes, cause at least there is still something to hate!"
Your words hit my heart, my head, my mind, my soul, my eyes are uncontrollably leaking.. The way your words touches me is unbelievable. Thank you so much Neil.
Nadia
I love his work so much. He speaks to my soul. "This is not to say you aren't special, this is to say thank God you aren't special." That line is how his works make me feel, like someone understands.
Wow....passionate! Its takes so much effort to exist than to not exist any more! That is a torn expectation of a hurtful world, where we fail to love each other in a simple manner!
This poem saves me every year. Thank you so much Neil
This poem aged painfully during the pandemic
I first saw this a month ago when I was relapsing. Now I listen to it when I go to sleep to calm down and when I can’t get out of bed
my dear friend sent this to me on my bday. thanks to her, i learned how to love how i hate myself sometimes.
I'm a simple boy, I see Neil, I click the instant the notif pops up
I heard this a couple of months ago and said to myself "I have to have this tattooed all over my body". Met Neil in Feb., and now I have "love it anyway" tattooed on me in his handwriting.
I'm a simple kinda person, I see Neil hilborn I hit like
This poem is my favorite thing ever written.
" I'm not saying you'll find the meaning of life in other people... I'm saying other people are the life in which you provide the meaning " 👏👏👏that that hit me hard!!!
I don't want to ever lose poets like Neil.
this is why Neil Hilborn is my favorite slam poet. like freaking EVER!!!!
Neil, you probably aren't reading this, but if there's even a remote chance that you are, I'm gonna write it. You don't have idea how many times you've saved my life. This poem saved my life, and it's saving everything around me. Thank you for this, thank you for publishing it, thank you for the courage, thank you. Thanks to you I'm getting out of bed, I'm studying, I'm becoming. I still don't know where I'm heading, but I'm going somewhere and you have helped me a lot.
i like how his brain forms his thought and how he expresses it in such a manner i cannot speak of!
"If I actually left my house for things that don't directly enable me to keep my house "
Neil's poems always speak to me
Every time I watch Neil perform, I cry. It's good to know empathy is not dead.
This has always been one of my favorites!
This poem inspires me.
I watch this at least 2-3x a day. Every word rings true. I love everything about this.
this is so true. im tired of fake smiles, fake friends, and fake love.
Neil is my absolute favorite. I reread his book maybe once a ween
Neil is hands down my favourite poet
his poems always speak to me and bring me to tears...im so glad to have the pleasure of hearing and reading this man's work.
And, once again
Neil Hilborn does, writes & delivers.
Thank you, Neil!
“If you want to continue existing, do something. Love how you have yourself because at least there’s something to hate.”
This is so so good... there are so many tears.
Thanks for making my heart break and melting it back together
i miss how passionate he was in the older versions of this poem
he always makes me want to cry. beautiful. thank you.
This really hits different right now
You taught me this lesson before i learnt it and it feels so different listening to this now that i have. In a very good way. It feels a lot more gentle now, somehow
Needed this today.
i listen to this almost every morning. reminds me to connect to people instead of shutting myself out of life again
Didn't believe i'd ever cry to a poem.
But i just did.
"If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it, it does make a sound, but then that sound is gone."
This is so beautiful.
whenever I see a new Neil piece I think "ok, I know what I'm in for this time, I'm probably jaded and impervious to it now ". and then it sucks all the air out of me every time
I love Neil Hilborn he always seems to say exactly what I'm thinking
On the off chance you ever read these comments, I just want to write one saying thank you, Neil. I'm sorry that I can relate to you, and I truly hope that you are doing well, whatever the standard for that is.
Why do all of the poems he recites touch me and make me want to cry? I mean happy cry. It feels good to know someone feels this way.
this is hands down my favorite poem
Neil words always break me, always take every inch of me, then builds me back up into this hope of a heaven I never knew existed and then he breaks me back down, into a million pieces and let's me know that the hope and the love I have been search for has been there all along. fucking beautiful man.
one of my many favorites from neil
Thank you so, so much for this piece of art
Neil is so gifted, I love the inspiration and passion he speaks with while sharing his poetry
I LOVE NEIL SO MUCH!! Honestly those spoke right to me, I'm frozen