"How is ANYONE meant to keep going knowing that NO ONE cares?" -this hurt my soul 😪

@vincentw4881

5 жыл бұрын

"No one cares" is a feeling. Many people care, as I predict you care. The systemic greed of our social structure is the culpret. We must fight to change it!

Finally such a horrifically ignored topic expressed in such a beautiful way, this is what we need - make it heard Shane ❤️

@robertprice3952

5 жыл бұрын

The only thing I can say is so true.

@Goodewend

4 жыл бұрын

Ella Mae Webb if only everyone listened to spoken word

"No place for the strange. No place for anyone begging us for change" - that line is so multi-layered.

I’m 21. I just became homeless (sleeping in my car not on the street thankfully). Lost my girl, my dogs, almost everything except my clothes, car, and some other small items. I just came across this and I really needed to hear this. Thank you Shane.

@dominichutchison1322

2 жыл бұрын

I hope your doing better now man.

We were watching CNN 10 today in history class when a segment about homelessness came up. Then, while we were all trying to listen to the stories some girl who sits in front of me said, "Why don't we just kick them out? Why can't we just move them all away?" I responded with, "They already have been kicked out, we already moved them away, they don't have any other place to go." When the dismissal bell rang I went to my teacher and I told her we should listen to this poem. I thought that maybe if we could listen to it the class would get a different perspective on homelessness. Luckily I have a pretty chill teacher who also likes spoken word poetry, she said she'd check the video out. Fingers crossed! I'm hoping she chooses to ignore the "oh-shit handle bars."

@LoveAndPeaceOccurs

4 жыл бұрын

Great idea .... can you up date us and let us know how it went, Please? Thank You. Love & Peace to you and to All

@sillyhappy2

2 жыл бұрын

@@dominichutchison1322 Oh man this comment feels like forever ago. I don't think we ever did listen to it in class. It just didn't really fit into the pacing of the class

Well, glad that you put it back up Shane. It's a hell of a poem.

PUT. THIS. EVERYWHERE.

Shane, you are my writing/speaking hero, and I wish more than anything I could tell my story as well as you do yours! 💜💜💜

@kgothatsomongwe7750

4 жыл бұрын

I second this

@adamaburas5206

4 жыл бұрын

I third this

@justiniorio260

3 жыл бұрын

I fifth this

@brillzocars6246

3 жыл бұрын

I sixth this

@taylorcampos5172

2 жыл бұрын

@@barf_3000 so are you number 7th? Cuz I wanna get in on this list 🤣🤣

I don’t care how many years pass I’m still going to go back and listen to these poems. They got me through the hardest parts of my teen years

@MasDouc

6 ай бұрын

This is poetry for 14 year old emo kids

@CheyMax

6 ай бұрын

@@MasDouc okay 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is why my heart bleeds for the babies in foster care around my age that are gonna get kicked out when they hit 18 (those kids who are 15 16 and 17) I plan that when i'm older i'll adopt as many as I can and help them so they don't end on the streets, this hit my right in the feels cuz all those parents who didn't want those beautiful faces in their lives and I would kill to just have 1 baby to call my own.. makes me very sad (sorry my english is bad) Edit: thanks for all the likes

@angeldullahan5885

5 жыл бұрын

I am one of those kids. Thrust into foster care at 11, and stuck there for the years to follow. I was lucky to be adopted at 17. Just barely saved.

@scrimgodjoker148

5 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry guys that shit sucks but you gotta fight through it

@theycallmebigpops8194

5 жыл бұрын

😪😞

@MrZoomah

5 жыл бұрын

I'm one of the carers for those kids and I refuse to kick them out at 18 even when the funding runs out. My state, Western Australia, is trialing funding carers until 25 which is a step in the right direction and I hope they expand it. I am sure they'll see a drop in homelessness and an improvement in outcomes for the kids. I am amazed at the strength of kids in care. I doubt I could have survived the system. Even the ones who do end up in prison or on the streets have required such strength and resilience that most people couldn't even fathom continuing on through the pain they experience.

@donutlegacy4812

5 жыл бұрын

Please do this

"Nothing can be done" It's the same spin that's been spun, ever since they loaded apathy into a gun. God damn...... That is word smithing.

@i-love-comountains3850

5 жыл бұрын

If you like that, his piece "A Letter To Remind Myself Who I Am," will blow your mind. On my mama, that shit saved my life. kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4ykqZN9frbZcrA.html

Your poetry pulls my soul out of my body and reminds me that we are all simply souls and should be treated as such despite our flawed, human, brains and bodies. Thank you for gifting the world with your words. They’re so powerful

I’m 75. I just discovered Shane while listening to NPR. I need his words. I don’t just want his words, but need them. He is truly a master of words. He is an empath, an artist of words.

"In this world, there exists avenues of disasters with losses so profound they could envelop you". Real talk.

Who wants Shane and Prince EA to run for president We need people like this to lead us Something that we don't have right now

Thank you so much for changing my life last year I was in horrible depression but I listen to your poems one and I was addicted to you thanks for daily happiness in this horrible world

@i-love-comountains3850

5 жыл бұрын

Same here. I was in a horrible place when I first found shane, and he pulled me from the grave. I'm glad you're alive, friend.

I saw this in my subscriptions and didn't recognize the name, thinking it was a singer or someone I followed a long time ago and just forgot about. Then as soon as I heard his voice I knew I'd probably be crying.

At school we were learning about climate change and we watched shoulders and I started watching you out of school ♥️

Poet bars😭🎉🌈💞😭 please I pray u never stop writing 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 god please

"How is anyone meant to keep going knowing noone cares" really got me since I recently tried to commit suicide, haven't had any thoughts like that recently, but it's still hard sometimes to convince myself that even if I can't always see it there are people that care. Even if at times it's just me

@dominichutchison1322

2 жыл бұрын

I hope your doing better now mate.

@averym7922

9 ай бұрын

Solidarity hugs, friend. I don't know you, but I'm glad you can tell the story instead of me reading it in an obituary. ❤

Been a fan for years now Shane, your poems have helped me through more than i can express in a comment section. Keep up the good work!!!! Much love from Texas!

@i-love-comountains3850

5 жыл бұрын

Much love from Colorado, friend. :)

I have been listen to this poem constantly for like 2 years😭❤️

No matter how many times I hear this it always brings so many tears, truly sad.

I chose "We found ourselves at the mercy of an ever changing world" as my senior quote. Since I couldn't criticize my school, I instead took a subtle stance on the pressure everyone faces after graduation.

“There are holes in the safety net in the shape of people…” This rings hard REGARDLESS of the subject matter. Poverty and homelessness aside, I feel like this line is especially timeless. Hits me every listen…

From Philippines. Shane we love the way you composed your masterpiece that strike the reality. I know you don't need words to praise your work and you want us to take action and help others mostly ourselves. Thank you shane! We love you from Philippines. You know what? Philippines needs this, the content, many poor and begar needs home and love. Again thanks for this shane. I admire your works a lot.

@michaelrana9794

5 жыл бұрын

I hope he does a show in the Philippines 😢

@tishamae6546

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrana9794 i hope soon...

Everything I have listened to by you makes me smile.

Thank you so much for this. And all your work. Been a fan for so so long. Back when you were newer and not in stages much. And your work always resonates, and because of that, often brings me to tears!

i- i dont know what to say, i've walked and lived as a nomad for six years and across nearly every stae east of oklahoma, ive been stabbed, beaten, arrested, had to fight wildlife and other homeless people alike. rescued a dog, broken into buildings .And met so many people, good, bad, crazy, or just downright weird. and i've never heard anything as beautifully sad as this. thank you. -wolfie

I turn on his videos when I'm watching romance movies. His voice helps calm my cringe. I love romance.

Shane, you have been my favorite poet since my freshman year in highschool. Now 6 years later, your words continue to move me. Thank you and never stop writing 💞

I hurt every time my mother drove past a homeless person, she used to get mad at me for giving my little change to people who need it so much more. My grandma knew what being hungry was so I try my best for her to keep others from feeling it too. 5 dollars is a hell of a discount for someone to feel joy. I walked past a homeless person once because I was in a rush, every day I wake up hoping I can see her again, so I can take my time this time. The scar of homelessness and lonely are people I want to ensure have someone to rely on. Idc if they are addicted to something, all I know is that they are hungry and if my spare change can feed them, i will feed them

Thank You.

this reminded me on when i was a kid i always made my mom angry because when i saw someone on the streets id ask if we can stop the car and give them money. shed always say we never had enough for ourselves so we couldnt and id get sad. i hope one day when i do make money id be able to give everyone i see on the streets some money or food.

Shane, I’ve listen to this piece so many times and each time it reveals something new. As a poet myself I appreciate the art of your words but mostly admiration for the way you make the complexity of your voice translate in such a powerfully simple way. Your catalogue is my go to for inspiration but a level I can never hope to emulate. Thank you.

I didn’t know poetry was a thing people did anymore until I first heard Shane. Despite discovering the community and many of today’s poets, Shane is still the best to me.

This whole system is basically us fighting for control in a world/universe too big for us to comprehend. And we delude ourselves into thinking we can control our fate and the fates of others. We’ve grown apathetic, bitter and unhealthily driven toward a never ending goal cause we cannot accept any other alternative. It’s hard to tell if we really do matter anymore, especially to one another. No matter what happens, the world keeps spinning, the universe keeps expanding, life carries on. I wish we all could stop pushing for control all the time, but that seems almost impossible.

Thank you I want to come back to mercy instead of indifference Thuis and you Shane are so inspiring Thank you for your goodness!

My goodness! This is profound! I'd like to include this beautiful piece for study in my Canadian Literature 12 course; right alongside the Margaret Atwood's, Lawrence Hill's, and Michelle Good's! :)

I love the eloquence with which your words bring LIGHT to the subjects that are to dark for people to want to talk about, you are a pioneer of advocacy, and my life is better because I've heard your voice. Thank you. For your beauty, and bravery. I see you.

Dear, DEAR, Shane, Thank You, so very much, for the pouring out of your earnest and heartfelt compassion ... and in a manner that manages to keep us glued to your every word as you bring to light the horror of the truth that is around the corner of nearly any, sizable population. And Thank You for sharing your personal connection to this problem ... which so many of us turn blind eyes to ... even me ... and I hate that I do ... and yet I have done nothing (or relatively little) ... to help. Your words help me to realize We All need to address this problem ... even IF we don't accept any of the responsibility for it ... We have to step up and do something and I Love that you provide us with one easy option right here ...Thank You. It has been nearly 20 years since I first was pointed to a video of you speaking, "We All Have A Voice but This One Is Mine" I listened to every video I could find, of yours, and I Loved them All (back then you had more on your web site, I really miss the one you had on conjoined twins). I finally got to see you in person in Ann Arbor in 2016 ... what a treat ...You were so kind to us fans ... I got star struck when I met you and could barley utter out, "I Love You" when you let me give you a hug ... anyway ... Love & Peace to You and to All P.S. ... Shane, do you still read these comments? If so, Please consider allowing me to write you a personal letter in your discussions section (or in mine). I know famous people such as yourself need to be careful with who and how much contact you allow with fans ... and I Imagine you have plenty hoping to become your "pen-pal" ...or whatever term is used these days for friend who keep in touch over distances ... believe me ... I'm Safe. Hope to hear from you

I hope you continue writing forever. You've helped countless.

@gothlon

3 жыл бұрын

Been two years since he's posted :(

Shane Koyczan is sick of society's bullshit, and I'm feelin this too. Been feeling this way a long damn time. Thank you, Shane. You've saved my life long ago, and you continue to put out phenomenal work. Much love, brother.

I absolutely love the last word. "Begging us for change" where change can mean money and change can mean making a difference when it's both. Word play like that is why I love his poetry. Well, one of the reasons, at least.

SHANE please let him see this Shane you made me feel YOU MADE ME CRY THANK SO MUCH THANKS I haven't been able to cry since my abusive father left

@akistoybox7138

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@criminalchicken499

3 жыл бұрын

Poetry is a powerful thing.

So happy to see that you’ve uploaded. I’ve missed you and your words. Hope you are well.

So glad I came across shane and his art several years ago. Beautiful mind and heart. He'll leave you sitting there thinking, that's for sure.

Eloquent and thought provoking. Well said.

everyone who is dealing with depression. I would like to say something... Try to be happy. this is your only chance living in this world that is waiting for you in the future. Yes, depression isnt as easy as it sounds to control with. I've experienced with depression since I was 7. since then, I'm 11 and I'm here sitting in my couch writing something that has to give inspiration. we've all been in tragedies. but it doesn't mean that it has to make you feel sad your whole life. the world is cruel, and we had to face it off. think about the others.. someone out there does love you. you just don't notice or see it because your eyes are covered with tears and your head is full of "compliments". if you think deeper, there's someone. just someone that is trying to make you happy. we hope that everyone who has depression reads this... and someday will learn that I, I'm here. I love you no matter what. gay? lesbian? I don't care. as long as you live your life with a happy ending.

Shane this movie really touched me. During these times, people wander the streets in desperation and with us locked in our homes in lockdown. It can only be worse. Tommorow I am going to drop off a food parcel and ask others to do so as well. Thank you for this very honest human moment that you gave me. Please keep sharing.

Whoa! Hit me to my core...so many true and desperately sad facts said... incredibly writing. We need change

It's so sad... And so true and the fact that your scars are made from circumstances in life that may be bound down.

Glad to see this re-uploaded😚Great poem sunshine

Holy cow, that was absolutely powerful! Thank you for this!

Thank you for yet another inspiring piece. Can't wait to see you in Manchester this June ❤

Thankyou, I am truly grateful for your exsistance and the power your words have, thankyou.

I don’t know if you’ll see this, but hearing your poems literally makes me cry. I’ve spent my whole life running a rat-race and chasing deadlines without ever finding the time to live for something more. I try to express how upsetting this is to me in written form, but it seems the older I get, the longer I spend here, the more I second guess the words so clearly set in my head until there’s nothing left but something that’s alre been said, and I think, “That’s not worth writing.” But then I hear you speak, and the joy that poems used to bring comes rushing back so overwhelmingly fast I can’t help but cry. Thank you. Just for being you and expressing everything so genuinely in your words.

wish you would release more stuff, have loved your stuff for almost 10 years now. It inspired me as a teenager and made me realise how much i love words and spoken poetry

Ever since my now 19 year old son soon to be 20 next month has told me abt you years ago ...how he could relate to some of your piems i have listened to nearly all that i could find on you ..i love the way you speak and i love your poems you are. a POWERFUL speaker and a MIND BLOWING poet .your words have the ability to make me cry and to make me smile you hold me captive when you speak and i thank you for being a voice in my sons head when he felt the need to let go but heard your words instead .thank you ...

These comments make me happy. Videos like these make me realize there’s good in the world despite everything that’s happened

He gives me chills with every video

Thanks for writing such inspiring poems

this is the earliest ive ever been for one of your poems and i really needed this especially today

A man who I never meet saved my life and he has no idea how he's most amazing hero I ever saw

THANK YOU, Shane! You are a bright light in this darkened world! Don't ever stop writing your poetry. You keep me sane!

Yes! Another poem!

The most beautiful stuff is written is by you and you help so many of us we all thank you from the bottom of our hearts for you are our hero our light in this city of darkness and we wish to become something better than what we are now to take the spark of hope you have given us and make it grow into a beautiful fire and pass it on so that the cycle can continue and that one day the city of dark becomes a city of light.

Shane , you make a difference in this world and I hold you dear in my heart . I wish I could make you understand the difference you've made in my life . Thank you .......

I always watch your short films twice. Once to listen, second to understand. The awareness you provoke in me, in all of us, overwhelms me with the knowledge that I can't change or inspire the minds of 7+ billion people.

Missed you so much Shane - never leave us

Heart felt!

I remember this guy. He introduced me to spoken word when I were a lad. It's real nice to hear this guy again. I am battling existential crisis, mental health and a bunch of other stuff, you know how it goes. Anyway, like I said, real nice to hear this again.

I had a serious issue with drugs. I would go on benders for days with money i didnt have to get away from the pain of my childhood and the feeling of being maladjusted to an adult life. Depression and anxiety consumes, borderline personality disorder that caused a constant identity crisis. The only sure thing i had was that the drugs would make me feel better but just as sure as it would lift me up, it would drop me into this horrible pitfall of cold sweats and bodily aches. After years of doing this i was rendered homeless. I dont blame my family for this, i had put them through too much and they had the right to put me out. I wandered the streets for hours to attempt to find a homeless shelter and when i did, i was told to come back in the morning at 7am to try to interview to get in. I sat there awake all night awaiting my oppurtunity and once i was in i was joyous. The only problem was that after the first week it became $5 a night to stay there and i damn sure couldnt find a job in a week. I had two pairs of dirty clothes, neither interview worthy, and no money to my name. I busted my ass for the next month to do whatever odd jobs i could to pay for my stay. After that month was up i was invited into a halfway house 125 a week and i struggled even harder to pay that. Im doing much better now, mental health still gets to me but i live on my own, ive got a good job, and i have repaired the relationship with my family. I have to remember how far ive come to fight the depression when it strikes. I dont want your sympathy though i just want people to know that it is a serious struggle being homeless. There is very little help. Most jobs wont hire you without a phone and the shelter i was at wouldnt let me use theirs. I heard the morning announcement at the community breakfast day after day about a nother homeless body turned up, most murdered but that never made the news. I havent touched a drug since that day over two years ago. The only rreason i was able to get on my feet is because i was blessed with meeting the right people

Damn ... this hit me hard . I was homelessness through high school off and on 😢 and this just reminds me that I’m so blessed to make it out of that and I try to help anyone when I see them struggling

He is so good at what he does... 💔

I miss you Shane. I really really miss you.

Yesssss Shane speak 💯

Thank you again Shane for your beautiful words. All your words help me move forward as I work to build the things that are needed in this world to help those who are ignored. It's too easy to lose sight of what really matters and to pay attention to what is really around us. I always come back to your beautiful words to help keep the fire burning inside myself. May your words continue to reach those of us who have the privilege to share what we have and help life those up who need it!

a year and a bit later... I am so glad I found this channel again

Shane, I thank you for your words. Everyday I wait to hear something you make and I wait long sometimes. You speak the truth of things people dont speak about. I know you mean a lot to a lot of people. Keep up your amazing work.

Absolutely beautiful. And sad. I am in awe. Bless you Shane.

"How is ANYONE meant to keep going knowing that NO ONE cares?" What a world we live in.

@jcoolguy1548

3 жыл бұрын

Wow

such strong and beautiful poetry

I love his poetry

Thank you. Thanks for being the beautiful poet you are. You don't know me but your works breath life into me. I have a speach impediment that causes me to echo my sentences on top of its self. As if speaking though a load speaker down an empty hallway I am forced to fight. To have my voice heard as i mean it to be. Your poetry sings to me. It has and continues to help me through hard times... Through the black tar of anxiety and depression that is constantly threatening to freeze me in place. Your words the emotion you give are the tools you use to brake the bondage of this prison. Thank you for sharing your gift. For helping the people like me who can't seem to find their own voice, but desperately need to. I'm sure you have heard all this a million times before, but today I am 1 million and 1. You sir are an inspiration. Thank you.

Your poetry makes me cry. Every. Single. Time.

Shane you were one of the reasons I stopped self-harm. It took a while but your poems helped me get through. You are also the reason that I have kept writing my own poems. I write whenever I the words come to me. And I add them to a "book" that I've started and hope to one day publish.

My theater teacher was just telling us about exactly this. We need to wake up and break free

Love seeing these,to feel more in 5mins than I see on TV in a month

this one is incredibly thought-provoking. i think this is my favourite of your poems yet.

I love you so much, you beautiful, amazing man. Thank you for your words and your heart.

You are amazing at creating a poignant picture. You truly speak to the 'bluebird I hide in my heart'.

So Good. Thank You Shane.

A true writer of today's world, for we of today. Thank you Shane.

This is amazing. Every word, every sentence is too amazingly real. I can't call out every sentence that moved me, because the whole video moved me. I thank you, Shane for your amazing work. I have all of his poems downloaded onto my music player so I can always hear his voice and his beautiful honesty about the world, even without my phone. Thank you, again.

Your words blow me away with every poem you write, Shane. Thank you for sharing this powerful message, the world needs to have it on repeat

God cares and so do godly people who are his hands and feet to minister to needy. Faith Hope Charity LOVE

I love your videos. Been following for years, always so well said :)

Shane you have such a way with words... Of course that's what poetry is but yours is so much different to me, I don't really care about poetry but I feel like when you say something I really do learn, and I can replay your poems 100 times and still find something else to learn. I really hope in the future I can be like you. Highschool is shitty. Being 15 is shitty.

I honestly love everything Shane makes they put me in a sad but calm mood I listen to some every night before I sleep...thank you Shane for everyone 💕💕