Ebony Stewart - "Mental health Barz" @WANPOETRY

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  • @asiglo3890
    @asiglo3890 4 роки тому +922

    "Check on your strong friends! Don't believe us, I promise we are just pretending." Wow!!! 💫

    • @judyp1078
      @judyp1078 4 роки тому +7

      So true

    • @BD401K
      @BD401K 4 роки тому +10

      That line spoke to me the most.

    • @asiglo3890
      @asiglo3890 4 роки тому +4

      @@BD401K same!

    • @smanjilina
      @smanjilina 4 роки тому +9

      Makes me shake just to read it let alone hear it. Being strong is merely a defense mechanism. It’s keep us alive but not safe...check on the strong friends

    • @LeilaniAlua
      @LeilaniAlua 4 роки тому +1

      Right :( !!

  • @RobGibsun
    @RobGibsun 4 роки тому +317

    "Did I mention, I paid off my student loans with poetry? Can't nobody tell me I'm not the shit but me." LET ME TELL YOU...IT MAY BE DIFFICULT BUT, WITH A PLAN, IT IS POSSIBLE!

    • @lami4391
      @lami4391 4 роки тому +4

      I respect you

  • @meldese3894
    @meldese3894 4 роки тому +545

    "If your path is more difficult, it's because your calling is higher". Nice! I felt that!

    • @triniiam4231
      @triniiam4231 4 роки тому +8

      Me too... I keep reaching inside searching for the moment that will define my existence and I pull back my fist empty.. maybe the truth is I've been afraid of the words I might find if only I could grasp them. I never let ppl in or the thoughts out.. but I always wonder why I feel trapped.

    • @Dee-xb9mt
      @Dee-xb9mt 4 роки тому

      Yes

    • @theliberatedqueen603
      @theliberatedqueen603 4 роки тому +4

      @@triniiam4231 I feel the same. Literally just had an anxiety episode. But I'm fighting everyday to get better and I know I will overcome soon. Just keep fighting sis♥️ You are not alone, you are loved, you matter, you are amazing, you are wonderful and you will overcome and blossom into the purposeful being you were created to be 💪

    • @triniiam4231
      @triniiam4231 4 роки тому +1

      @@theliberatedqueen603 love power & positivity to you ♥️ thanks

    • @sadebilly6943
      @sadebilly6943 4 роки тому

      I felt that.
      Because whew.

  • @addyjohn2075
    @addyjohn2075 4 роки тому +677

    "Have you ever tried to tell someone you're not okay, and they're like:
    "You're good!"
    And you're like "But I'm not."
    And they're like: "You got this!"
    And you're like "But I don't"
    And they're like "Keep going!"
    And you're like "...Okay""
    that whole section just broke my heart because.. yes

  • @Kate-hh8yi
    @Kate-hh8yi 4 роки тому +177

    💜 "I wish being a good person paid more"

  • @clarissa3254
    @clarissa3254 4 роки тому +316

    "It's the wounds people can't see that hurt the most" 🔥🔥🔥

  • @keithedwardsowell
    @keithedwardsowell 4 роки тому +250

    Has to mean something that I stumbled upon this right before I went to sleep...right when I needed it most 😭🙏🏾🙌🏾

    • @theliberatedqueen603
      @theliberatedqueen603 4 роки тому +3

      Me too bro. Now I'm crying 😭

    • @missywells44
      @missywells44 4 роки тому +1

      Right on TIME.... I needed this as much as it Needed to be Expressed!!!
      Thanks SIS...

    • @zinasands7779
      @zinasands7779 4 роки тому

      Glad you found yourself better in this.

  • @nicolesgoquendo8020
    @nicolesgoquendo8020 4 роки тому +228

    “These poems act as self help, I’m a healer, not only for myself, but one time a kid told me he almost killed himself but, he heard one of my poems and decided to keep living, and from that day forward I was like, today is a good day to keep someone alive.”
    That’s real❤️

  • @deviantnigga3038
    @deviantnigga3038 4 роки тому +59

    “I wish being a good person paid more”

  • @jennifersackley5480
    @jennifersackley5480 Рік тому +3

    Wow " I wish being a good person paid more." I wish it did.

  • @likeletsomotaung5888
    @likeletsomotaung5888 4 роки тому +26

    "I was draining and screaming but everyone was thinking, I was swimming and smile"
    😪😪😪😪

  • @neshiafmg
    @neshiafmg 4 роки тому +72

    4:04 really got to me because I feel that way all the time. And my friends wonder why I don’t share how I feel with them. It’s like I tried and you dismissed it instead of listening!

    • @BD401K
      @BD401K 4 роки тому +4

      Exactly what you said is exactly how I've been feeling lately. I try to share, but it gets dismissed as if it's not as important as what they're going through. But yet I'm there for them despite what I'm battling. Sheesh

    • @enzomthethwa5861
      @enzomthethwa5861 3 роки тому

      Those aren't friends.

  • @siroreo
    @siroreo 4 роки тому +81

    The one dislike is from abusive ex

  • @saraphena9676
    @saraphena9676 4 роки тому +49

    “If your path is more difficult its because your calling is higher” - i really hope so... its been a hott minute since a Piece made me cry so hard😭. Thank you.

    • @ri907
      @ri907 3 роки тому +1

      I hope so too hun! I hope you're doing alright for real. Sending love! ❤️❤️

  • @badbytch1756
    @badbytch1756 4 роки тому +15

    Why am I crying. The student loan part. Lawd cover mine's

  • @jarrettdavis5253
    @jarrettdavis5253 Місяць тому

    This poem perfectly embodies how I have felt since coming to college. I'm doing so well, but that doesn't stop me from feeling drained, exhausted, lonely, like im not enough, and so much more, but I love what I do. I know I have success & love in my bones, but sometimes I really do just want a shoulder besides my own to cry on. Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece!

  • @kem-Monique
    @kem-Monique Рік тому +3

    “ I heard it’s the wounds people can’t see that hurts the most” whewww chileee felt

  • @JElven-hk3vl
    @JElven-hk3vl 4 місяці тому

    Best thing someone said to me at one of the lowest, grittyest, most painful, lost, alone times of my life, was "you're gonna land on your feet" wow...I could breathe again and I looked forward and around me, and lifted my eyes to thank god, for that lady on call during that lostass point I was in

  • @jordantate_
    @jordantate_ 4 роки тому +17

    Why haven’t I heard this girl until now??

  • @iamporshalove
    @iamporshalove 4 роки тому +9

    “I’m the kind of giant that’s been through what I’ve been through and you can still depend on..”

  • @olanrewajufunmilayo-ul9si
    @olanrewajufunmilayo-ul9si 6 місяців тому

    I'm not watching this for the first time, but it's new everytime I watch it. It's like falling in love with a person everytime you see them.

  • @charitytheko8116
    @charitytheko8116 2 роки тому +1

    May you find a lover that helps you love yourself "

  • @lexioko
    @lexioko 3 роки тому +2

    ma'am, you just reminded that i am capable of feeling.

  • @tharollo_sea
    @tharollo_sea 4 роки тому +10

    "i wish being a good person paid more"

  • @rosegoald
    @rosegoald 2 роки тому +1

    CHECK ON YOUR STRONG FRIENDS‼️🗣

  • @earthlingbella3993
    @earthlingbella3993 4 роки тому +28

    I cried like a baby and felt every word in my soul. 💛

  • @oddgirlie
    @oddgirlie Рік тому +1

    5:20 blew my little mind. Thank you.

  • @nattyogli9317
    @nattyogli9317 Рік тому +1

    May you find a lover that helps you live your yourself 👌🏾💯

  • @Athenaforever2308
    @Athenaforever2308 6 місяців тому

    Stunning. Thank you and look after YOU!!!! x

  • @TheNeereis
    @TheNeereis Рік тому +1

    Oh... im sobbing!

  • @bontle_athaliah
    @bontle_athaliah 2 роки тому +1

    “Can’t no body tell me I ain’t the shit but ME”
    “So I say I be Hero and Legend”
    ❤️

  • @natoyabarnes6313
    @natoyabarnes6313 4 роки тому +34

    Always come across these poems right when I need to hear them. This was beautiful.

  • @AdanBean
    @AdanBean 4 роки тому +36

    The hero and legend. She's incredible.

  • @ruchnoydi
    @ruchnoydi 4 роки тому +1

    I just want to hug her.

  • @ayishagisel1252
    @ayishagisel1252 9 місяців тому +1

    Needed this. Applause to the poet. Profound.

  • @tabrianolan2115
    @tabrianolan2115 2 роки тому +1

    There are bumpy paths and this inspired me to achieve my goals going through depression emotionally abusive relationships at a young age wondering if I’ll ever find love but why em I focusing on love and I’m young and have my whole life ahead of me … telling myself the future will await me a man for the woman I am becoming

  • @tsholofelomatshidiso1894
    @tsholofelomatshidiso1894 3 роки тому +2

    I love her😭❤❤

  • @wtf.iswrongwithella
    @wtf.iswrongwithella 3 роки тому +2

    "Can't nobody steal my joy; not even myself" 👏

  • @WePlugGOODMusic
    @WePlugGOODMusic Рік тому +1

    Goosebumps everytime

  • @kingme5587
    @kingme5587 9 місяців тому +1

    Goddess Stewart if you read this from the very depths of my being I want to say THANK YOU❤

  • @ovojul7351
    @ovojul7351 3 роки тому +1

    “No one can tell when I’m not doing well but me”🥺

  • @clausemunanura8818
    @clausemunanura8818 3 роки тому +1

    I have come to learn that no one can tell when I'm not doing well but me💖

  • @deborahharrisguadalupe9849
    @deborahharrisguadalupe9849 Місяць тому

    Love this and thank you Ebony Stewart. Sharing with my 47-year-old son who's going thru some things right now.

  • @WePlugGOODMusic
    @WePlugGOODMusic 3 роки тому +3

    "I been in my prime like nine times" COME ON EBONY!!!

  • @metamorphic8
    @metamorphic8 6 місяців тому

    cLaiming it like the Queen you are 🤩👸🏿🤩

  • @TheSambey05
    @TheSambey05 Рік тому +1

    It's the wounds that people don't see that hurt the most💞💞

  • @ydumas6
    @ydumas6 Рік тому +1

    Thus really resonated with me about myself and my youngest daughter thats gives so much of herself to others....I fear sometimes that she will lose herself and will have nothing to give herself!!

  • @isaiahking95
    @isaiahking95 4 роки тому +32

    “May you find a lover that helps you love yourself; may you find a lover that doesn’t require you to give more to them than you have give to yourself” 💛

  • @nealbollen7441
    @nealbollen7441 Рік тому +1

    Sent this to my daughter.. thank you

  • @tsitsichanetsa6005
    @tsitsichanetsa6005 4 роки тому +40

    Don't believe us, I promise we're pretending"

  • @chakavelile.9546
    @chakavelile.9546 2 роки тому +1

    Yikes I'm so touched. 😩 ❤️

  • @jonathanpulley4799
    @jonathanpulley4799 4 роки тому +66

    CHECK ON YOUR STRONG FRIENDS 2020

  • @vivianokoye1290
    @vivianokoye1290 3 роки тому +1

    Check on your strong friends.
    They need it more😭😭

  • @dakiahayes128
    @dakiahayes128 3 роки тому +1

    Damn!....👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @CandaceJDunkley
    @CandaceJDunkley 2 роки тому +1

    “Did I mention I paid off my student loans with poetry” 🔥🔥🔥 “Can’t nobody tell me I’m not the shut but me” 😭♥️😭

  • @sadebilly6943
    @sadebilly6943 4 роки тому +1

    It's the wounds people can't see that hurts the most.

  • @shadiaahmad5913
    @shadiaahmad5913 4 роки тому +1

    You killed the lies...you killed the stage...you killed it all but you revived parts of a dead soul.

  • @malissahyatt2425
    @malissahyatt2425 2 роки тому +2

    Girl looks like a Lioness.

  • @chisab.6351
    @chisab.6351 Рік тому +1

    You are speaking… I can relate a little too well 😢

  • @sanamir9886
    @sanamir9886 4 місяці тому

    So much energy. Very inspiring. Cheers to you. ❤

  • @BosephJonesMan
    @BosephJonesMan 4 роки тому +3

    @5:13 "if your path is more difficult its because your calling is higher" I felt that through an through

  • @sadebilly6943
    @sadebilly6943 4 роки тому +2

    I'm the kind of giant that's been through what I've been through and you can still depend on-my anxiety felt attacked

  • @emilylundrigan4277
    @emilylundrigan4277 Рік тому +1

    This is amazing u are my idol, you are saving me just buy listening I need to come to your one of your shows.

  • @jenniferaquino1729
    @jenniferaquino1729 3 роки тому +1

    ugh. im sobbing.

  • @Scars.Into.Stars.thefirethekey

    This is the one that made me fall in love with your strength and voice

  • @Kashplayy
    @Kashplayy 4 роки тому +1

    Serve👏🏽. Them👏🏽. Sis👏🏽!

  • @nancyngaaremba6210
    @nancyngaaremba6210 4 роки тому +18

    'I pray, I leave something good behind'...Humbling, powerful, creative. inspiring, real poem...I love you Ebony..Keep soaring higher

  • @siroreo
    @siroreo 4 роки тому +3

    “Check on your strong friends, check on your strings friends, check on your strong friends. I promise we’re pretending”

  • @writersolomon4162
    @writersolomon4162 Рік тому +1

    I felt the emotions on this one

  • @weirdopoet
    @weirdopoet 2 роки тому +2

    "Don't believe us we are just pretending,...." that hit me on a different level.
    Those who stay smiling and strong, people don't get the fire they go through behind closed doors.

  • @richardelmes984
    @richardelmes984 Рік тому +1

    Thank you Ebony! Keep going!!! As a fellow poet / professional speaker, I know how it feels to pour into an audience and leave the room super-charged, only to feel drained by the time you get back to your room. Keep going! Because you are making a difference and charging others batteries with your message.

  • @knowledge.cipher6861
    @knowledge.cipher6861 Рік тому +1

    One of the greats

  • @JuanGarcia-zs1oi
    @JuanGarcia-zs1oi 3 роки тому

    "I me I me I me. I must be blessed. Im winning."
    Omg these ppl are so full of themselves. She is a victim because of others, but is a healer.

    • @JuanGarcia-zs1oi
      @JuanGarcia-zs1oi 3 роки тому

      "I'm the shit" "i wish being a good person paid more."
      Omfg. Get a grip of yourself "im the kind of giant who...". Wow. She tried to put a lil rap in there 😆 "i could do this woth my eyes closed."

    • @koril2507
      @koril2507 3 роки тому

      What people?

    • @koril2507
      @koril2507 3 роки тому +3

      And her poem is about her affirming herself while dealing with poor mental health. So, it’s going to be centered around her

    • @AlienzExizt
      @AlienzExizt 3 роки тому +2

      If the poem went right over your ignorant head just go ahead and say that, hun. It's much easier than talking a lot and saying so little. ❤️

  • @MissChevious1
    @MissChevious1 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you 🖤 thank you a million times!

  • @Omanjisinkala
    @Omanjisinkala 4 роки тому +1

    Do what you love, God is good

  • @moniegrey5699
    @moniegrey5699 4 роки тому +2

    These poems act as self help imma healer! Dis part hit me also....
    Can't noboby take my joy not even my self! Dis part to.....

  • @morganminnigh6990
    @morganminnigh6990 4 роки тому +2

    This is beautiful. You are beautiful. You are growing you will fade and you will grow some more been at your prime 9 times and you got as many more coming as you choose. It's up to up to you to win or lose. But rise "if your path is more difficult its because your calling is higher" you go as high as you work for and fall as many times as you choose not to get up and keep fighting. Fighting for the ability to smile the ability to love yourself the drive to keep going to fulfill your heart your soul with joy with happiness that you deserve and nobody can take from you.
    Keep working Ebony. And filling ears and minds with knowledge experience wisdom positivity and kindness. Dont forget you. Because if you aren't okay you cant do what you love which gives others the feeling of just being okay. ❤much love sister- Morgan PA
    the city of the love we choose, yet lack so heavily right now.

  • @timmygordon9742
    @timmygordon9742 4 роки тому +1

    Check in your strong friends..
    Damn, I felt that

  • @Chidimms
    @Chidimms 4 роки тому +1

    This poetry changed my life

  • @JustKay1210
    @JustKay1210 4 роки тому +1

    If your path is difficult it’s because your calling is higher.....damn

  • @secondopinion53
    @secondopinion53 4 роки тому +2

    Beautiful!! IF YOU TELL YOURSELF YOU CAN OR IF YOU TELL YOURSELF YOU CAN'T... BOTH ARE TRUE!! DEPENDS ON WITCH LION ONE FEEDS.

  • @TheRatchetSage
    @TheRatchetSage 4 роки тому +11

    "I'll be hero and legend, nobody built like me - I designed myself! But every time I climb, my community get co-signed!" Thanks for giving words to the weight of what I've been feeling. Living purpose is not easy - rewarding but not easy. I appreciate the reminder to not let anyone steal my joy - even myself!

  • @writersolomon4162
    @writersolomon4162 Рік тому +1

    Holding on close and tightly
    The tension of the city keeps riding me
    An escape, a sanctuary
    Seeking something to help rid me
    Of the hostilities that tie me
    For a moment of truth and closure
    I lay beside the ever motion water
    The impulse of the ocean is what I am after
    If it’s rocky, then lay a bed
    If it’s just sand, then spread those legs
    I believe it’s a place made for me
    Made by the most I, to surrender
    A place for individuals to gather
    It’s a place that allows a union
    Just the ocean and me, the perfect communion
    A partner, my spiritual lover, and a companion
    The taste of the air is fair
    Enough to judge and try me
    Fill with salt and chatters of the birds
    Waves colliding
    Together with rocks and sand, just mating
    I am and will be the ocean’s darling
    For now, leave me as the devotee
    As many as there are, they bring me a peace
    Guilty is the plead;
    Letting my problems devour the bed of the sea
    Lock hands and legs against the undulating tides
    Smother my face when I take a nosedive
    One day, I’ll see myself marrying a wave
    To be taken far back to the inside of the ocean
    Finally, I’ll get to be its baby
    Lay in its bed while the sun kisses and greets me
    Title - The Sea and Me
    By Makonnen Solomon

  • @vivianokoye1290
    @vivianokoye1290 3 роки тому +1

    I'm doing exactly what I've always wanted to do

  • @JuanBuenoJeanBien
    @JuanBuenoJeanBien 4 роки тому +19

    Ebony Stewart is the truth.

  • @AdriannaThomas-gj7sd
    @AdriannaThomas-gj7sd 4 місяці тому

    That was deep your calling is higher ... Reep the knowledge

  • @asanicole2182
    @asanicole2182 4 роки тому +1

    I've watched this 4 times already so I'm awake writing

  • @shannoncook1108
    @shannoncook1108 4 роки тому +1

    beautiful JUST BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU.

  • @corrinagoldblatt6956
    @corrinagoldblatt6956 5 місяців тому

    "I wish being a good person paid more." YES!!!!! Public health worker and musician here. Thank you!

  • @quinasiajohnson1396
    @quinasiajohnson1396 3 роки тому +5

    I don’t know bout anyone else but I know that I have listened to this poem over a thousand times and sometimes I find myself reciting this poem as if it’s mine when it’s not but lord this girl is so amazing she’s my favorite poet

  • @danabrumbelow2621
    @danabrumbelow2621 2 роки тому +1

    Ebony, I love you. I love your poetry. Thanks for being real, and helping us get through the day.

  • @LaurettaBiraneCisse
    @LaurettaBiraneCisse 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you ❤

  • @johnkeithrobinson7399
    @johnkeithrobinson7399 4 роки тому +3

    keep up the good work in you.

  • @scarecrow8514
    @scarecrow8514 2 роки тому +1

    No....thank you Ebony, thank you for everything you do to remind us that we don't struggle alone.

  • @covenantvoid4430
    @covenantvoid4430 4 роки тому +2

    "what good is a God dat can't speak life into somebody."
    Dat's deep😔😔

  • @imeldaamnon3097
    @imeldaamnon3097 Рік тому +1

    You make me cry

  • @AntineshaRennia
    @AntineshaRennia 4 роки тому +1

    Today is a good day to keep someone alive ❤️

  • @shaniajames3310
    @shaniajames3310 3 роки тому +1

    You are blessed 🥰

  • @richardavery1540
    @richardavery1540 3 роки тому +1

    Ebony definitive defined..

  • @enigmasdestiny1355
    @enigmasdestiny1355 3 роки тому +4

    I come back and listen to this every single time I'm feeling lost. This one still brings tears to my eyes but it does it because it makes me realize I'm stronger than what I realize.