"The man tells me he does not love me, and he does not love me. The man tells me who he is and I LISTEN. I have so much beautiful time."

@pearlythobz

4 жыл бұрын

Bro. That was personal.

@morganstewart3558

4 жыл бұрын

This part hit me HARD 😭💗🌻

@luciawilliamson8808

3 жыл бұрын

I've memorized most of her poems from listening so many times. These lines just popped in my head, while I was chilling in the bath, so that's why I'm back here again.

@mummyjohn

3 жыл бұрын

@@pearlythobz can you tell me what it means to you? I am a little perplexed by this line

@writetobescene7399

3 жыл бұрын

That’s my favorite part, too

Honestly this poem slayed the shit out of me, every girl/ woman needs to hear this. It's okay if he doesn't text back or he doesn't seem into you, you don't need him, life will go on without him and you have so much time and potential to do other things besides wait by the phone

@JwGina

7 жыл бұрын

asseater007 so trueee

@maximus9402

7 жыл бұрын

It's funny I should find such a comment and video after realizing that. I am a dude - stating what is more than clear, based on my picture - But, I found myself also waiting for that person to reply and to give me the "full on" attention. Guess what, I wound up being multi-tasked. Learned my lesson. Moved on. I'm posting this here, so you know that it happens with guys too, hell, we are all human.

@izzytzzy

7 жыл бұрын

The thing is I've never actually felt that way. I've never been attracted to anyone so I don't care if I get let down by some kid I'm never gonna see again

@lostgypsygurl

5 жыл бұрын

asseater007 it will. Life will surely go on without him. Them. But it's so difficult to forget.

@gabriellaferroni2826

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I needed to hear this right now 😢

"the boy doesnt ask if he can choke me so i pretend to die while he's doing it" ASDFGHJKL ME

@alexandragade4680

4 жыл бұрын

I actually screamed... imma do this now

@rineaguirre4768

4 жыл бұрын

Deaddddd

@nuclearpugg

3 жыл бұрын

Tee Hee Hee attractive man can get away with abuse tee hee hee so deep

@Masterdesstruct

3 жыл бұрын

@@nuclearpugg literally women

@theradicalace

3 жыл бұрын

@@nuclearpugg ...what?

That bit with the hours and her ending. It sounds like maturity and compassion, for other men and women around her. Breaking the cycle and saving herself some god damn time.

@bethanykramm2101

7 жыл бұрын

That's a lovely and wise observation. And remember, no matter what someone might say to try and degrade you, you're lovely, but you also don't need anyone's affirmation. You do you girl.

@naraposthumus8478

4 жыл бұрын

Truth. ❤

That subtle change from calling the boy a man. Just, wow. It may mean she respects the opinions of the man in the end, and that she is no longer fazed enough to label the man a "boy" just because he doesn't love her. It is a reflection of her being a woman, being mature- being unfazed, by the end of the poem.

@vernishapolite2999

4 жыл бұрын

HikariNo Yami OR... it’s symbolic that a MAN will tell you when he doesn’t love you.

@elleg4093

3 жыл бұрын

@@vernishapolite2999 yes, thank you! the others are boys because they behave immaturely, the man doesn’t waste her time and is honest with her the way an adult would be

"left from the other universe are hours and hours of waiting for him to kiss me - but here they are just hours"

I am getting “here they are just hours” tattooed on my arm this weekend, and I can’t wait to have this constant reminder. I love this poem more than anything ❤️

@RomanZolanski123

5 жыл бұрын

Isabella Danusiar girl, I’m thinking of getting that tattooed as well. I’d love to see what you done with it!

@alotlikemagicruchibist5763

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, can anyone explain what it exactly means?

@isabellacarrascal2573

4 жыл бұрын

A lot like Magic she’s saying that in this universe, she’s spent hours waiting for guys to kiss her, to text her back. In that alternate universe (“here”), they are just hours. Not spent waiting for a boy, but just time passing

@simranm9483

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Isabella, I've been wanting to get the same tattooed. Can I see yours?

@isabelladanusiar1456

4 жыл бұрын

Simran M Hey! Yes of course let me figure out how to add a photo

"The boy doesn't ask if he can choke me, so i pretend to die while he's doing it " Omg this GIRLLLLLLLL

"A boy said he didn't believe in labels so I embroidered the word 'chauvinist' on the back of his favorite coat." Yes, girl! I love you!

@simranm9483

7 жыл бұрын

Genesis Barrow what does this mean?

@kendallpotts6018

7 жыл бұрын

Don't Read Me Like This a chauvinist is someone showing extreme or exaggerated patriotism in something

@stellag.1166

7 жыл бұрын

chauvinist means sexist

@Missswordfish6

7 жыл бұрын

So, basically The President of The United States.

@simranm9483

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining the meaning of chauvinist people, but I still don't understand why the boy who didn't believe in labels (which is a good thing I guess?) was referred to as one.

"the boy says period sex is disgusting and I slaughter a goat in his living room."

A person in my life recently decided I wasn't worth his time anymore and pushed me completely out of his life and every time I feel like crying, I watch this video and listen to these words. I am no longer fazed. I am so much more than what he made of me and my time is worth so much more than waiting for him to change. There are people who will never love me, and maybe even hate me, but it is not worth my time anymore.

@rararaex6990

6 жыл бұрын

TheBabyAw23 👏👏👏 go you xx

@thetongueofangels1882

5 жыл бұрын

💕

@DianaKavaya

5 жыл бұрын

I went through the same thing...stay strong ..love😍.

@fairycars

5 жыл бұрын

❤️

@naraposthumus8478

4 жыл бұрын

People get really upset when you realize this and try to put u back in the kitchen. However I'm reaching for a casket now. Sad for women. ✌💖😭

THIS IS SOO COOL!!! the part about “being very phased”. because it’s like, all of that “revenge” stuff is still being phased, just in a different way. so in the alternate universe she moves on.

@bettyemachetetmi5005

5 жыл бұрын

what the hell? score! I found a person with a heart and brain who gets it!!!! whoo. do you have any idea how many sphincter holes in the comments section I scrambled down to find you?👋

@andy-bm1kt

5 жыл бұрын

@@bettyemachetetmi5005 same here!!

@RomanZolanski123

4 жыл бұрын

Well actually in the alternative universe she IS fazed. It’s this universe that she moves on.

@gabriellameattray9778

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get it

I cannot count the number of times I have watched and listened to this poem. It is because I cannot count the number of times I have hurt over men who makes me feel fazed despite putting an unfazed front. This poem reminds me to be strong but at the same time hopeful.

I’m getting a tattoo from this poem! It has helped me so much in the 8 months since I caught my husband cheating, gambling away our entire savings, ignoring our children, and drinking like a fish. I spent way too long waiting for him to change and to see my worth. I needed strength and this is where I found it. I can’t decide between “here, they are just hours” or “I have so much beautiful time”

@helloimlc8452

4 жыл бұрын

Go with I have so much beautiful time 💕

@mivana9097

4 жыл бұрын

Wishing you so much beautiful time to come!Your strength is inspiring❤️

@savannahdavidson6476

Жыл бұрын

planning on getting “i have so much beautiful time” but man i’m really considering “here they are just hours” now

Every time I notice myself getting lost in a relationship or depending too much on someone else’s company, I come back to this poem. Every time it reminds me to focus on myself and stop putting other people’s feelings above my own.

"...and here, they are just hours."... This poem never ceases to leave me speechless.

oh olivia. This poem has blessed me in more ways than you could ever acknowledge. For the last week ive been waiting as he slowly replies or waiting until he opens my text; realising if this man truly loved me I wouldn't have to wait. I realise this. And whilst he does not text back I finished my art project in which id been delaying for months, gorgeous and delicate. a sculpture I have created using this precious time. The man tells me he does not love me. And he does not love me. The man tells me who he is. and I listen- I have so much beautiful time.

I come back to this poem again and again because there’s something very important about reminding myself that I must make time for myself, not just relationships

4 years later and i'm still obsessed with this poem. At first i didn't put it in practice and wasted all my time in men who didn't love me. But now i think i'm genuinely starting to be unfazed by men

I come back to these poems every year and they make whole new sense to me every time.

"and I listen" Powerful words that will resonate from now on!

This is so beautiful. The way she referred the boy she loved initially as just a boy, who doesn't know how to be vocal about his own feelings.The way she refer the way he do the surface compliments like the hair, or sex pleasures. But eventually when she fall in love with the man, Who is vocal about his feelings towards her and the way he took hours even before touching her.Because he doesn't wanna hurt her by not reciprocating her love towards her. And when finally he confronted her about his exact feelings, She isn't angry about it so doesn't burn the photos or begged him to stay. Cause she loved the truth that alleviated that the beautiful man she loved, doesn't love her back. Ahh beautiful poem💕

“And here, they are just hours” damn I have chills - again -

Looking back, it turns out I discovered this video about a week after it was posted. At the moment I was about to graduate high school and the poem changed my life. It has stayed with me into almost the end of college and I will always, always appreciate its truth and it’s beauty

when i was younger and i heard this for the first time i thought it was a tad brash, maybe over the top. i didn’t understand. now that i’m a few years older i get it. i know what she’s said and it’s now one of my favourite poems ever

notice how she uses the difference between man and boy. She talks about the boys who constantly care about appearances, but the man who is in touch with his feelings.

I loved my ex so much, and he didn't love me back, not one bit. He needed me to straighten up his life, and once I saved him and fixed him, he just... He just fucking left me. For over a year I pleaded, BEGGED him to give me what I needed: affection, sweet words, respect, to not leave me alone at all turns. But in the end, ours was a tale of me praying, giving him everything he needed and wanted, and he gave me NOTHING in return. The worst part is that after everything that happened, if he came to me tomorrow begging for my love I just couldn't do it, I can never go back. I resent him way too much for that. I want to want it, but I just don't. I held this love in me that was the brightest, most selfless feeling I ever knew... And now it's dead, and I have to live with that. And I hate that I don't even hate him, I just look at him now and I'm mad at myself, for letting him use me for so long while that hope he would one day love me back, beyond the hollow words that he forced himself to grit out, kept me beside him. "The man tells me he does not love me, and he does not love me. The man tells me who he is and I LISTEN. I have so much beautiful time".

clicked on the notif as soon as i saw olivia's name

@ButtonPoetry

7 жыл бұрын

Make sure to check out her book! It's officially released today: bit.ly/olivianabf

@annalotus9648

7 жыл бұрын

i will thank you!

this poem healed me

How do I get myself to stand there and present my poetry? Ahh my dream

@hallepreneta4975

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh mine too!

the last couple lines .... wisdom beyond your years, my lady, wisdom that this boy, older than you, have just learned recently and you worded it beautifully. Thank You !

@simranm9483

7 жыл бұрын

Hey, I did not quite get this poem. Could you explain your favourite parts to me?

@Nejidabest

7 жыл бұрын

This is just my interpretation, but at the beginning of the poem she's listing out how her alternate universe self would react to boys and men basically telling her how to be ladylike or attractive - by not caring, even rebelling. Which says that in this reality, she does care The middle part about her mom, her mom is telling her that "Unfazed" doesn't mean caring about what men thinks and taking vengeance. Toward the end, the several last line, she is explaining how being "Unfazed" not caring, means you don't try to hold on to a man that wants to leave you, you don't bargain, you don't question, you accept that "I don't love you" means "I don't love you" and you look at him for who he really is, who he says he is, not your ideal of him. the ending really speaks to me, because I've only been able to let go of my ex recently, after I accept that they don't love me, don't find me attractive, and never will, no matter what I do; and I had to look at them for who they really are, who they identify as, instead for my ideals of them.

@Alex-fo5cm

7 жыл бұрын

Thien Thuan Tran thank you for sharing this helped me work through the words in my own way :^)

«a boy said he liked my hair the other way, so I shaved my head instead of my pussy» always coming back for this line. goddamn.

Yeah, she's a real one.

4 years later and it still hits just as hard if not harder.

I love her. She is my favorite poet. I can't really express that in a simpler way.

This has been one of my favorite written poems for years now and this is the first time I’ve seen it spoken. It’s not how I read it, but so incredible both ways. Thank you!!

This is my favorite poem. Everytime I come back to this to remind myself of who I am. I love this ❤️

Olivia truly NEVER misses a beat. She is unlike any other and I am utterly obsessed and in love with her poems. She is a gift!!

i come back to this poem again and again,everytime struck by her words. I have so much beautiful time

I love this poem so much! It my favourite, every word is so powerful, ever line can stand on its own and evoke so much feeling and is so relatable. This poem is ingrained in my memory and I live by the beautiful words spoken in the sense that I have so much beautiful time, here they are just hours, hours of not waiting for some to love me, hours to constructively work on myself, hours to experience life and share it with loved ones, hours to get to know people with out wanting them to love me or pursue me in a romantic sense, learning from experience and moments with people pushing back the desire of love that can not be reciprocal. Loving life and everyone on my journey while being a rebel and living to the beat of my own drum. This poem has inspired me to live authenticity and freely without questioning love that people cant give me, but giving myself all the love I need.

MORE PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR THIS I don't care if I'm not a female it's too true

@bettyemachetetmi5005

5 жыл бұрын

good writing doesn't have genital or gender.❤

@ahabgaddis7277

4 жыл бұрын

no

This poem blew me away.

I really needed these words!

@ButtonPoetry

7 жыл бұрын

Check out Olivia's book so you can take them with you :) bit.ly/olivianabf

one of my all time favorite poems ever ever

Your words are powerful! Don't ever stop using them in this manner.

I cry every time I watch this

I love this poem so much, it's just amazing. Speaks to me on so many levels

Olivia!! I love your poems so much!! I can't wait till my next pay so I can buy your book!

i love the sound of her voice and how she reads

i love her poetry so much omggggg

That ending blew me away.

Wow, I absolutely love Olivia.

This is all kinds of amazing.

@ButtonPoetry

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Make sure to check out her book! It's officially released today: bit.ly/olivianabf

"I have so much beautiful time." This is the words! 👏

So true and beautiful. A lesson to learn. How to tell your heart to accept another person’s free will.

@SGC511

4 жыл бұрын

Powerful and beautiful.

This was so so good, i loved it the words and the way she spoke the poem

I needed this... Thank you 💖

Always loved the last words of this poem. Think I may get them tattooed one day.

2019 thank you.I needed to hear this!

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.- Elie Wiesel

I love her poetry!!

this is my favorite. poem.

this was so beautiful

she's so incredible ahhhhh

I really really really needed this

Major snaps. Love you Olivia!

I love this more than words can describe

I wish I would have heard this five years ago. Wonderful words!!

I always come back to this

This is amazing!

This was - breathtaking

I'm shook.

The man tells me who he is And I listen. I have so much beautiful time. ❤️

Oh wow. How powerful is that.

absolutely amazing

I love her poetry and her performance and passion ahhh

@bettyemachetetmi5005

5 жыл бұрын

same

This is great

@ButtonPoetry

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :) Make sure to check out her book! It's officially released today: bit.ly/olivianabf

I had to google the word "Chauvanist" and as my eyes took in the words I felt my mouth smile and I hadn't even told it to

this one gets me every single time

gosh, i fancy olivia so much.

This is incredible.

I love revengeful poetry ❤️

@ButtonPoetry

3 жыл бұрын

The best!

good poem - thank you

Dear Olivia, Thanks for this.

comedy and poetry love it

!!!!!!! Omg, I love this!!!

I love this

Love love love!!

i love olivia and i would totally buy the book

Needed this

@hanri6367

7 жыл бұрын

Needed your icon

DAMNNNN I LOVE THIS!

😁 so good, much love for this

Just beautiful

I LOVE HERRRRR

This one is by far my favorite :)

This is perfect.

My friend needs to hear this Right now I needed to laugh right now😂

"here they are just hours" 👏

Funnnyyyyy girl. Loved it

Whyyyyyy...why are you sooooo amazing?!