Rudy Francisco "Scars/To the New Boyfriend"
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2012
- Rudy Francisco is the 2009 National Underground Poetry Slam Champion, the 2010 San Diego Grand Slam Champion, the 2010 San Francisco Grand Slam Champion and the 2010 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, performs "Scars/To the New Boyfriend" as the "featured poet" at the Urbana Slam. The Bowery Poetry Club, NY 2011
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If I left a comment every time I watched this, there would be enough comments to write a bible
me 2 ana
Oh my gosh ana same and ilysm
i love you bby
Same Ana same
thank you for introducing me to this poem god, Ana.
"i was told that time would heal all wounds but what exactly do you do on days when it feels like the hands on your clock has arthritis?" most under appreciated line
That's my favorite line because I relate so much and I've been there
this this this
I don't get it
Seaniah Bling it's bc they said time will heal but the time is going by soooo slow
😭😭
" i bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we would only find yours" danm thats deep
"love is clumsy but my heart refuses to wear a helmet" tears
Yeah I'm wearing a hermit this time around
@@amahlemxezengana68ppp
"you wanna know how I got these scars? see, I swallowed my pride, and then it clawed its way out of my mouth" I AM CRYING
"I think I've seen you somewhere in her smile."
+Makenna Kristine Doctor Who!
Ameilia Way A fellow fan of Nirvana, I see :)
+That is so cool!
+Makenna Kristine i think its me
He came to my college and shook my hand and it was the greatest moment of my life
Is that the only reason he was there? 😂
You’re so lucky
Omggg
I want this entire poem tattooed on my body
hope you don't.
+AURA COLUCCI-KASTRANTAS at least one line right? 😂
now this is the real shit
TheBlack Rose yessss
Sameee
"but my definition of love is being robbed in an ally eight times in a row and hoping there is something about today that makes all of this different."
what does this mean ?
Francois Campbell They say the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. He has been in love at least 8 times, and each time, he has gotten hurt (felt like he got robbed). Yet, he still continues to fall in love, as if he thinks this time, he won't get hurt.
It means when you're letting the same person break your heart over and over and over again..and you give them another chance..why? Because maybe..maybe today..they won't hurt me.
"I would sacrifice this body to the sky, hoping to resurrect as someone spiteful enough to not care this much about you."
"Pierce my side with a broken promise; I will bleed all the crippled reasons why you deserve one more chance."
Fuck. Rudy gets me every time.
my ex told me i loved her more than she loved me, that i kissed her to much and that she got sick of my smile, nothings worse than giving someone 100% of yourself to someone who only gives you 50% and fills the other half with lies and fake emotions
very true.
true i know how u feel
+Daniel Garcia I was with my ex for years, engaged and everything when I found out she was cheating on me. I confronted her, obviously, what did she tell me. We love each other differently. I was like, what...the...fuck. I could make some woman joke here. But it isnt that at all. Its the fact that, like he so skillfully said, Cupid is irresponsible. But she was right, we loved differently. I, in the most literal romantic sense of the word, and her, in a twisted selfharm and low esteem sort of way. Well, be ok buddy.
Sorry to hear that bro but will pray u find someone who will give you as much as you give them and more and nothing fake just love
I have been through this countless times.
"Last molecule of oxygen in a gas chamber. I was good 2 u"
Ah he got me there....
Alex Duran sameee
"Cupid is f*cking irresponsible, and i'm tired of him using me for target practice." I love that line
“Loving you was the last thing I felt good at” that line just hits on personal level
"Cupid is fucking irresponsible. & I'm tired of him using me as target practice."
8 years later and I still feel the same way I first heard this😢
same, i went through my favorites and i saw this when i was really young. now hearing this with what i've been through/learned. it hurts even more now haha.
"if I could, I would tie your arms to my daydreams and auction you off to my fondest memories." wow...
I listened to this poem every single day. Every. Day. To get through an old breakup. Listening now I realize I’m still grieving. Crazy what love does to us.
+1
"I heard that 90% of human interaction is nonverbal"
Those following moments of silence give me goosebumps.
"I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we would only find yours." WHAT.
Like he's saying that she never loved him.. just the other guy
I almost cried...I wish I had found this sooner. Would've saved me the wasted conversations and useless words. Thank you
sleep/dream i hope you’re in a better place in life dear
"I was told that time would heal all wounds but what exactly do you do on days when it feels like the hands on your clock have arthritis." This hit me hard.
"I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints we would only find yours."
It takes so much to admit that.
thats exactly what i thought, to say that one out loud takes so much.
when pretty much the same thing happens to you and you can't help but feel all of the emotion he felt
bearz1lla Ikr? This shit hurts...
bearz1lla Yeeeh, only the 'new boyfriend' was also my old best friend .... feels bad man. but good to know others have been there, life goes on friends.
yeah happened to me yesterday amazing how u get so emotional for every thing that has been robbed from u
Cody H How is everything going now?
This man makes you FEEL.
This man thinks you think.
"5. I whispered you stardust. 6. I spoke you into sunflowers. 7. I dipped my hands in forever, I touched you infinity, treated you as if you were the last molecule of oxygen inside of a gas chamber; I was good to you."
What do you think of 5 and 6? I have my own interpretation but I'm not sure if I understood the lines correctly so I'm interested in other opinions as well :)
"I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we would only find yours"
"loving you was the last thing i felt really good at"
"there is nothing logical about cutting off the most important part of yourself and putting it in hands that shake, that tremble, that crack like a haitian sidewalk 4. there is nothing logical about love"
*rational about love.
I'm not crying, my eyes are just sweating
Don't cry, craft!
Onions, who's chopping damn onions
It's Savy same PHAm
I've always liked this poem. but until today, two months after being broken up with and still dealing with all the hurt, I've never truly appreciated it until now.
Sarah Baldwin
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I've loved this since the first time I heard it. I relate to it now. Getting my heart ripped out now has a soundtrack.
Yes, yes, yes.
It's been nearly a year since I first heard this and by the end of it now, I still have my face in my palms. Absolute beauty.
IAmShannabear Well thats pretty annoying to get my comment deleted when I was trying to be nice, but hey thanks.
for the record, thumbs down your post. just wanted you to know.
I didn't do anything, actually The Haxter
That is really weird. sorry to assume.
Either, I didnt actually post it even though Im almost certain I did. Or someone else deleted it. I feel like a jerk now lol, have a good day.
p.s. I really love Rudy too
I hope you have/had a good one as well :)
Listened to this ten times in a row last night and just sobbed
Me too
This poem has gotten me through such a rough breakup....thank you.
Listening to this while waiting for a phone call that might never come is heart wrenching :(
I can relate
"There's nothing rational about love"/"cupid is fucking irresponsible and I'm tired of him using me for a target practice". Love these line.
I was terrified that of listening to this when I read the title. I sucked it up and listened anyways. Every single sentence is an accurate of a description of what I’m feeling so thank you for putting what I’m feeling into words. You’re poetry is amazing!
I remember watching this a few years ago and wondering what it would ever be like to feel this way. Coming back here a few years later and ironically now understanding...I’m glad that there are things like this that exist
that last part hit me hard, wow.
At least from all that pain there is beauty in this and comfort for others who have felt the same
Can't keep watching this. Definitely can relate. 11 years with him. Engaged. & he left me for another woman. My first love.. seems impossible to move on.
Stay strong x
Krislyn Medina It's possible to move on. I probably saw this comment 3 years ago and couldn't write anything because it took me three years to stop feeling that pain you are/were feeling. They took our hearts and left us without one. I changed into a different person after her. I almost committed suicide 5 times. I drowned myself into a bottle and drugs for three straight years. I dropped out of college because of the pain. Moved 4 times to find something new and Still couldn't run away from her fast enough. When I rediscovered who I am is when things started getting better. I still feel lost sometimes, but it's when we take our heart back, things start feeling better.
P.S. I still blame her for ruining my life. I will love again but I will never fall in love ever again.
I felt his pain
Rudy has such a way with how he speaks, each word has a meaning and each punctuation has a point and honestly I can't get enough
Why would anyone down vote this masterpiece???
THIS is real deal down right poetry. I love the way these words come out so passionate and distinct. when You can touch a person's soul with what you love to do.. then i think you're doing it right. EXPRESSION is the one thing we have as humans and it is the most beautifully painful gift to show to the world how torn inside we are.
I think i've watched this about 100 times over the past 3 days.
make that 150.....really getting to me, but in a good way
Why would anyone ever not want to be with him?
Oh man. Listening to this makes me want to cry
I've been watching this every day and i still cry like it's the first time i've heard it. wow.
so raw
The emotion is so intense and real you can really tell that this comes from his heart. This is just fantastic! Bravo!
Rudy,
been watching you and reading your poetry since I was a baby bottle pop. I’m grown and realizing how hard your words hit me and I was a child. I grew to be my own lover, family, and friend. Hearing your poetry I shed tears, every time.
I still remember the first night I heard this poem on the radio, in my room on a Sunday evening, on this old show called “Art and Soul” on Nigeria Info, 92.3 in Port Harcourt. Yop hosted that show and I’m super super nostalgic hearing this again almost 10 years later❤
"There's nothing rational about love". Loved this line.
I felt that pain, so very familiar.
I've been crying for the past few hours because of something more then similar to this. Watched this and the tears stopped and my heart was pounding through my ears and I felt nothing but empty... Saved this to my phone. I'll be listening to this until....
"I heard your voice in her laughter." Oh Dear God... just amazing.
God, he took exactly what I'm feeling right now and put them into words that I just can't express right now.
Years .. it’s been years and I still love this just like the first time I heard it.
"Loving you was the last thing I was ever really good at" when I went through a break up I felt this way...
That.... was amazing. Could feel each one of his emotions.
why the hell do you look so familiar? I think i've seen you somewhere in her smile... Ouch
i think u know how i got here
dara iyang gipanghambug nga likes lol
I met him last night, and he's an amazing person.....
really nice guy lots of charisma
It hurts to hear how much someone once loved someone, I love it. I feel bad that good people, good guys are taken for granted like this. Such a rare gem. I can really relate.
can we talk about how this is what ive been doing for the past 2 hours
and im still crying
Men who are in touch with their emotions like this GIVE ME LIFE!!
"I would sacrifice this body to the sky, hoping to resurrect as someone spiteful enough to not care about you anymore." Definitely sobbed a lot. Thanks. Great stuff. Really relatable and always will be in human existence, i think, so im glad there's this to help us.
Love this. Rudy Francisco is the man
I've listened to this about a million times in 2013. Thanks for helping me through a rough year. 9 years later I randomly remembered this today
Damn that powerful on so many levels. I mean like from the beginning to the end, it was like u couldn't help but feel his emotions run through u, it was like the words he were saying were running through my veins and I couldn't help, but let it run its course; inhaled every word that he was saying go in me, because it was like I was him for a brief moment and I could just feel the pain in his voice it was as thou it was breaking.... I've never ever been in love be for or heart broken because I wasn't in love, but it was like whenever he was speaking and I could see into his pain for a moment, it was like for the very first time I knew what it was like to be in love and heartbroken at the same time, plus it got me a little chocked up, so I thank u my kind sir for sharing that story with us
Heartbreak hurts like hell.
Loving you was the last thing i felt relly good at. :(
I used to listen to this poem when I was 15 & heartbroken from my first crush. Now, I am 21 with 2 beautiful babies & today, I am getting divorced. I will always find my way back, through this poem. Thank you Rudy.
you speak of every emotion i am feeling. 5 years with him. we broke up a couple months ago. and he's already with someone.
thank you, it's the worst pain ive ever experienced. . i wouldnt wish it upon my worst enemy.
Jasmine Haaland it will be hard but you are worth more then he will ever deserve to be willing to commit for 5 years and the guy go's and gets a rebound is sad. talk to me if you ever need help, i've been with my girlfriend since i was in 6th grade and i'm now in college
Thank you. im trying.
Atleast it was a couple of months
Everything's going to be alright.
I saw this last year crying about this one girl and now I'm back crying for another...
As a lifelong fan of poetry, and one that writes myself, I can honestly say this is one of the most beautifully powerful pieces Ive ever heard. Just amazing.
Out of all the slam poems I've listened to, this is my favorite. I keep coming back to this video and listening to it over and over again. I love his language and the passion that's obvious in his voice, whether quiet or loud.
One of the most beautiful and raw poems I've ever heard. His pain was palpable.
I know I will be listening to this for years to come. Great job.
The 5 weeks since my breakup have pretty much consisted of listening to this everyday and sobbing.
This is the fifth or sixth time I've seen this and now I've cried this time.
I listen to this like a song, played on repeat over and over and over again, yet I can never get enough.
This poem is full of so much raw and absolutely true emotion. Wonderfully written and performed! I love it, its amazingly easy to connect to!
Bravo Rudy Francisco!!!
Easily one of my favorite poems. Damn this hits home. Damn this brings me to tears. Makes you really think about love and how it can destroy someone.
I could never get tired of listening to this
Shane Koyczan and Rudy Francisco are the best Poets, their elegant words never fail to touch my heart
i'm so emotional watching this, i've never felt such acceptance before because everything he said made so much sense. i need to contact this guy somehow lol. amazing. so amazing. he deserves every bit of happiness on this planet.
I'm going through this right now. This poem just crushes my heart.
This really broke me into the smallest pieces, one of the best poems I've ever heard
I was watching and listening to this so intently I didn't realize I was crying until after it was over. Simply amazing.
" 1
If I could,
I would nail these hands to the edges of stars,
I would sacrifice this body to the sky hoping to resurrect that someone spiteful enough to not care about you anymore,
2
Staple me to a cross,
Pierce my side with the broken promise and I will believe all the crippled reasons why you deserve one more chance.
3
Loving you was the last thing that I felt really good at
4
You wanna know how I got these scars,
See I ripped out every last piece of you out of my smile,
5
I whispered you stardust
6
I spoke you into sunflowers,
7
I dipped my hands in forever,
I touched you infinity,
Treated you as if you were the last molecule of oxygen inside of a gas chamber,
I was good to you.
8
You wanna know how I got these scars?,
See I swallowed my pride,
And then it clawed its way out of my mouth
9
I realized I was never really your boyfriend. I was just your f***ing hype-man
10
I hope your next boyfriend gets small pox
10
Yes I said small pox
10
I hate you
10
But I still miss you
10
And a part of me still loves you
10
Its hard for me to count when I get emotional
10
I heard that over 90% of human interaction is non verbal so..
(Pause)
10
If I could,
I would tie your arms to a daydream and then auction you off to my fondest memories.
To the random dude who started dating my ex girlfriend 2 days after we broke up,
Yes, I saw that sh** on facebook.
Now when I realized you were in a relationship with the girl that I thought I would someday spend the rest of my life with,
I walked outside and said to myself
"There's no way Ashton Kutcher's gonna catch me off guard"
I waited 45 minutes.
And then I realized that there hasn't been a new episode of punk'd in da** near 4 years,
So I guess I'm the only practical joke in this entire situation.
1
The first time I saw you and her in a picture I wanted to take my entire arm,
shove it inside the computer,
and snatch the happiness right off of your face.
2
If I ever see you in the street I'm probably going to punch you in the throat
3
I apologize in advance.
And I know, i know that it makes no sense, to have this much anger toward a man that ive never actually met face to face,
but my definition of love is being robbed in an alley,
8 times in a row and hoping there's something about today that makes all of this different,
There is nothing logical about cutting off the most important parts of yourself and putting them into the hands that shake,
that tremble,
that crack like a haitian sidewalk.
4
There is nothing rational about love. Your love stutters when it gets nervous,
Your love trips over its own shoelaces,
Love is clumsy and my heart refuses to wear a helmet.
5
Cupid is f***ing irresponsible,
And I'm tired of him using me for target practice.
6
I was told that time would heal all wounds. But what exactly do you do on days where it feels like the hands on your clock have arthritis
7
she always wore her heart on her sleeve so tell me why the hell do you look so familiar?
8
I think I've seen you somewhere in her smile,
like ive heard your voice in her laughter,
like I've smelt your cologne on her thighs,
I bet if we dusted her heart for finger prints we would only find yours
9
I have this envelope,
Its filled with all the butterflies I felt the first time she relaxed the Velcro on her lips and smiled in my direction,
I think most of them are still alive.
I guess these belong to you too.."
This is deepppppppp
He is the Drake of Poetry
Drake is the Drake of poetry. (I'll say this guy's a close second tho)
I absolutely love this, he is so passionate.
One of the most powerful poems I have listened to yet. This is pure talent and I am absolutely in love with his use of metaphors.
I love the way he pours the emotions from the poems to our souls just by the way he talks.
That was the deepest I've ever seen Winston go. Beautiful.
I thought Rudy was Winston from New Girl too but he's not
The feels ! What a beautiful poem ! *snaps fingers*
This is amazing. Things like these have the power to make you feel less alone in how you're feeling.
well damn:/ i could feel the heartache through my laptop
You can hear the intense raw emotion in his voice...
This is beyond beautiful, I listen to this once or twice a day
"Cupid is fucking irresponsible. And Im tired of him using me for target practice" LOVE IT