You know it was a good date when it makes you want to come home and watch Rudy Francisco.

When I asked you for a chai latte what I meant to say was "I was walking past, I saw you in the window, I only came in here because I had to know what your voice sounded like." But instead of saying that I just got really nervous and ordered the first thing on the menu, i don't even know what the fuck chai is. Or a latte for that matter. When God made you, he cussed for the first time. He turned to an angel, gave him a high five and said " Goddamn I'm good!" You were that beautiful. I spent the last five days trying to figure out how I'm gonna introduce myself to you properly and I think I finally figured it out its gonna be something like "Hi..." That's all I got so far. But I think it's a good start. You see I want that, I want that my friends think I'm crazy kinda love. That reckless kinda love that, wake up early make you breakfast kinda love that, crack open my life and say look you gotta see this kinda love foot get the shallow stuff, I want the deepest kinda love that, that I wanna stay up late and tell you all my secrets kinda love that, that every time I see you I fall to pieces kinda love, I want that stand next to me kinda love that, that you are my destiny kinda love that, no matter what happens you always get the best of me kinda love that, you get my heart and my mind this world gets the rest of me kinda love that invest in me kinda love because you already know that I'm invested in you kinda love that, that you come home upset you don't have to say nothing I already know what to do...kinda love I want. I want love. I want you to bite my lip until I can no longer speak. And then suck my ex girlfriends name out of my mouth just to make sure she never comes up in our conversations. I want you to come to me like an afternoon. Come to me slowly as if you were a broken sunset with a lazy sky on your shoulders if you let me be your sunlight I promise that I will penetrate your darkness until you speak in angel wings. Pull me close to you. Tell me that you love me, and then scratch your future into my back so I can be everything that you live for. I promise that I will die for you daily and then resurrect in your screams I promise that I will love you. I promise that I will love you as if it's the only thing that I've ever done correctly. And I'll be honest I'm usually not even a love poet. In fact every time I try to write about love my hands cramp. Just to show me how painful love can be. And sometimes my pencils break just to prove to me that every now and then love takes a little more work than you planned. See I heard that love is blind so I write all my poems in brail. My poems, are never actually finished because true love is endless. You see I've always believed that real love is kind of like a supermodel, before she's airbrushed. It's pure and imperfect, just the way that God intended. You see I'm gonna be honest, I'm not much of a love poet, but if I was to wake up tomorrow morning and decide that I really wanted to write about love, my first poem would be about you. About how I love you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike. Scared. But reckless. With no training wheels or elbow pads so my scars could tell the story of how I fell for you. You see, I'm not much of a love poet, but if I was I'd write about how I see your face in every cloudy reflection, in every window you see I've written a million poems hoping that somehow, maybe some way you'll jump out of the page and be colder to me because of you were here right now, I would massage your back until your skin sings songs that your lips don't even know the words to. Until you heartbeat sounds like my last name and you smile like the Pacific Ocean I wanna drink the sunlight in your skin. Yeah if I was a love poet I'd write about how you have the audacity to be beautiful, even on days when everything around you is ugly I'd write about your eyelashes and how they are like violin strings that play symphonies every time you blink if i was a love poet I'd write about how I melt in front of you like an ice sculpture every time I hear the vibration in your voice and whenever I see your name on the caller ID my heart, it plays hopscotch inside of my chest. It climbs onto my ribs like monkey bars and I feel like a child all over again. And I know this is gonna sound weird but sometimes, I pray that God somehow turns you back into one of my ribs just so I would never have to spend an entire day without you. And I swear, I'm usually not a love poet but I was to wake up tomorrow morning and decide that I really wanted to write about love, my first poem, I swear that it would be about you. And aft r all of that she was like, "So how do you feel about me?" And I was confused. I said let's put it like this, I wanna be your ex boyfriends stunt man. I wanna do everything that he never had the courage to do. Like trust you. I swear that when our lips touch I can taste the next 60 years of my life. See last night I had a dream. And in this particular dream I died in my dreams, awoke not knowing I was still asleep and decided to walk you see that night I walked in my sleep I slept in my walk I walked backwards until I saw you for the first time and I could barely muster the courage to introduce myself all over again you see I've been trying to find the right words. And I've been trying to take the right steps for what seems to be like thousands of years but something always seems to go wrong between us we lived in Egypt, I was the pharaoh's slave, you were his daughter loving you led to my death they claimed that I seduced you and after they stole my life I was resurrected as a mason. I made the foundation for your house we met eyes for two seconds you left and I didn't see you again until I died I came back as a caterpillar. I turned into a butterfly. I landed in the palm of your hands you brushed me away and the rejection killed me. When I awoke I was a kick drum, you were a snare we were both owned by this drummer named Cozy Cole and when he died so did we but I came back just to look for you I left notes in random places hoping that you would stumble across them I carved our names in trees and then prayed that it would jog your memory I would spit your name in the wind hoping somehow, maybe some way my voice would reach you but it didn't and I died, I died early. I died young with breadcrumbs in my hand just hoping that you would find me but you never did so they buried me, and when they buried me they put these coins over my eyes and I used them as bus fare to get back to Earth just so I could look for you. That's why sometimes when we hold hands, every so often I tend to hold on a little too tight and I'm sorry. I just don't wanna lose you again. And my mother told me, that when you find the perfect woman you do whatever it takes to make sure that she's next to you.

@alannahayes8132

4 жыл бұрын

Ameera Chaudhry thank you so, so much

Every so often I come back to this page to look for this one poem.

@TheAmayaM

7 жыл бұрын

Guess who's back :)

@Snowleopard2938

4 жыл бұрын

ADULTHOOD come back!

@jamesfv1

2 жыл бұрын

Same.

Everyone in the audience-"GOD DAYUMM"

This man stole my heart. My girlfriend would kill me if she found out.

@mireyac7023

4 жыл бұрын

Pibbles 'n Bits 😂😂

I was there during this. A little 16 year old on probation. I was in a program to help straighten out my behavior and I gotta say it was one of the best experiences I’ve had. The lady that ran the program brought us out here to see you specifically because I told her when I was younger I used to write poetry. Seeing Rudy Francisco and the others that were there that day inspired me to start my own poetry club in school and even began volunteering for a local art gallery Machine Pomona as the the owner was my mentor during the poetry club. Of all the poets though Rudy stood out the most to me and through the power of spoken word I give thanks to this man. Blessed

Am I the only one that comes back every so often to hear this again? I want him at my wedding. 😭

I'm a sign language interpreter and he makes my hands move swiftly, smoothly like I have no joints

It's 2024 and I still listen to this like it's first time!(even while mouthing the words) LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

I wish Rudy Francisco new that he makes me believe in love.

Watched this again for the first time in 4 years and it still touched every single ounce of me like it did when I first saw it. Beautiful.

2020 and still one of my favourite piece on KZread.🤗🤗🤗

This is so pure, even the ability to laugh and joke and then pick up where you left off. So great, I really wish and want this poem to have a studio version like 'complainers'. Just because the audience is a great plus but they take away from the impact of a lot of this piece.

I showed this video to my freshman year composition teacher and she showed it to 600 of her students... they all loved it. This is how a man should view love with your compassion and thought. Thank you for being such a beautiful man and poet.

2020, this poem is still my favourite poem... can we talk about the jeans you wore🙈🙊

I always listen to this every month, waiting for that perfect girl to come to my life.

If only more people were able to express their feelings like you are gifted with. Im pretty sure right now every female that has watched this video has formed some sort of crush on you right now, cause I know I did.

im in love with him and i dont even know him but with those words he can sweep any girl off her feet

I've watched this a gazillion times...I never get tired of watching this...

i wish i could show you this, gosh -youd love it but theres no wifi at a cemetery and how do i even know youd hear it

@ayylew

5 жыл бұрын

My boyfriend passed away last week, and I keep thinking about this poem. 💜

3yrs and it's still hits me

I have shown this to at LEAST 20 people and ive shared it on my facebook and twitter 3 times or more...Yo, i just had to make sure that guys saw this...Know that THIS is how you speak to a girl :)

Ooh my gosh...I can't even fathom how you came up with these words. See how love can inspire you? How love makes you write things you never even thought you would experience? It's like love unlocks a hidden pandoras box that God gracefully placed between your heart and your lungs. So that when someone finally comes along with the RIGHT key, they make your heart beat like never before. So much so, that when this happens the words flow from your lungs like a Divine utterance. THAT is the true power of Love. I guess that is why they say LOVE covers over a multitude of sins...because how can a love like that not change you??

Rudy, stop it. Just stop it. You steal my heart every time. EVERY. TIME.

Ahh relationships and poetry go together so perfectly.

this video makes me sad because i had a starbucks girl. she never quite knew what it was exactly how i felt for her and Rudy accurately conveys everything i felt when i first saw her. now that i'm done with college i moved out and i don't know if i'll ever see her again. i kinda want to send this video to her so she can know that someone felt this way for her at one point and so she can feel special but idk if it's worth it anymore.

@jaipowell701

9 жыл бұрын

DO IT.

@rose968

9 жыл бұрын

I hope you did it, best wishes to you

@Lord8th_

2 жыл бұрын

It’s been 7 years, I gotta know what happened

I don't know how long my mouth has been open. He's fantastic, I'm speechless

I LOVE HIM! "i swear when our lips touch, i can taste the next 60 years of my life"

Here for the 15 hundredth time..still listening like it’s the first.

I cried the first time I heard this & I still cry now watching it 3 months later

@TeresaWorld

8 жыл бұрын

I cry too cause it so deep it like i can feel that love he talking bout DAMN......

I first watched this when I fell in love with my girlfriend. I came back to this after me and my ex girlfriend broke up. I'm literally sobbing.

I’m in love with this man

you know youre in trouble when you think of someone when you listen to rudy. when every poem he writes makes them pop up in your mind

I am a song writer... and I can become emotional over art fairly easily... but it takes a LOT to make me open up, and weep, sir. And this had me absolutely broken, and in a beautiful way. Thank you... I now know what I should be waiting for, and why i have not settled for the people that treated me less than they should.

"I want to be your ex-boyfriend stuntman, I want to do everything he never had the courage to do" LOOOOOve this!

i'm absolutely speechless... i want to be in love so bad, just so i can feel a fraction of this

I love this man so much, he's the reason I started writing at 12 yrs.old. Rudy Francisco has inspired most of my poems when I was younger. Then suddenly I'd stopped writing for a while but now I'm 18 n I wanna get into it again. I'm here to go back to my roots as far as I could remember 🤌🏼😮‍💨first I heard of him was turning tables, he helped me thru very tough times.😇❤️

this man...is amazing.

3 dislikes? oh you hating. And hate is just a form of love that cannot logically explain itself, so therefore it lashes out. Its safe to say you three loved this poem.

I watched this 3 times in a show and seriously didn’t get sick of it. ❤️ I LOVE the things that come out of this mans mouth.

I love how much this changes every time he does it. Beautiful evolution.

I'm blown away....your lyrics make me melt...my eyes close upon hearing some of these lines...come to the UK and let my accent inspire you :O)

this will never get old

damn i feel every word i feel like that about someone... its a beautiful pain but i would die a thousand deaths to feel that 1 moment to love and be loved...

I LOVE IT RUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ohhh Lord. This man holds so much power with his words

ive seen this several times and it remains my favorite poetic performance

im 18 and a spoken word student and ive done tons of open mics and shows and i feel the same way this spoke to me on so many levels i cried smiled giggled was enticed intrigued encouraged felt hopeful to find someone to say this to me and jealous of the girl that you're speaking of all in one lml this was absolutely amazing and that word doesnt even do it justice thank you sooo much ive been waiting to hear these words from a male perspective all my life

This is exactly the kind of thing I dig.

Thank you for everything

This was like listening to spoken music. Thank you for this beauty~

by far the best poem i've ever heard in my life

this has to be the poem that touched me the fastest... something in me wept & jumped for joy and gave me hope and brought me to my knees asking God for something close to what this man spoke of...

Im a poet dude and one day i wish to be as good as you your amazing man keep them coming :)

I'm gonna learn every word of this

he added a new beginning to the poem

I have melted into another dimension filled with his words

In 2021 this peon still holds up❗️💯

Love you Rudy! You make lesbians melt with your swagger!

Got my heart sky rocketing and this isn't even directed toward me. This poem is that raw. I love you rudy :3

This was flawless

The great thing about you Rudy, is that you add personality to your poems. One second you have us laughing, the other you have us snapping.

“You get my heart and my mind, this world gets the rest of me kind of love” .. jeez 😭😍 I just bought his book and this poem isn’t in it but I so wish it was!

Yes king yes love it 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Every word that left your lips had everyone's attention, had hairs standing on end and sent shivers down backs.... You are brilliant!

Hi Rudy.. I'm not sure if you would ever read this but your poems are amazing. This one especially got me since I've just gotten out of a relationship.. For some reason it made me realise I never loved the guy and he never loved me, it was all about lust and loneliness. I hope to fall in love one day and it feels like this.

God this is amazing. His words caress my ears like butterflies fluttering along the milky way. Keep writing Rudy, one day I WILL meet you.

Men. Listen to your mother. Exquisite.

This poem was sent to me by a friend who asked if I wanted to see something beautiful. Sure enough, every word in this poem was more than beautiful. I shall smile for the rest of my day thanks to these words! Great job!

Back here listening to this, it was first sent by someone when we started dating but I guess we have come to the end of our story and I must say, it fucking hurts how he just ended it and chose his pride over working things out with me.

"I want you to suck my ex girlfriend's name out of my mouth just so she never comes up in our conversations" goddamn.

this made me cry! beautiful

Oooh child!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your poems are so beautiful, I would love to see you in person! God bless your mind and let us continue to enjoy your sweet words.

@rudy Francisco I'm definitely using this thanks 😏😂👌🏿

To be honest I love this poem SOOOOOO much

i dont usually leave comment but this touched me.. thanks for doing what you do and to my friend richard for introducing me to things like this

Omg I LOVE your poetry!!!

This was more than beautiful, I think I've watched it more than five times! These are the words I want my future husband to speak and the emotion I want him to feel! I have no words... Just beautiful!

Wow, everytime I watch this I cry. Its amazing

i felt every word....i was captivated from start to finish.....i want this, i crave this....but in life there are somethings we just are meant to have...

This is sooooo amazing.

Wow. INCREDIBLE!

How have I not seen this before?! This is amazing, I am stunned. So many lines gave me goosebumps.

WOW! This man is amazing.

I am in love with this mans words!!!

Simply amazing! Im in love with your words. ;-)

How have I never heard this before now? Saw it recorded at TPS 2017 and I thought it was brand new but 6 YEARS ago? Damn

Boy you can write about me! Lolol. I've watched this so many times, and still get butterflies every time. Good work, Rudy. Keep on.

The addition was beautiful and perfectly fits.

THIS POEM!!! GETS ME EVERY SINGLE TIME! #REPLAY

and now that i have they're genuine i havent lost hope...you truly touched me =)

Gosh darnit, I heard a friend recite this last night and i MELTED. This is, goodness, it is beyond words. LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOOOOOVEEEEEEE

ohhhh my God!!!! I love, love, love.... this poem

I almost forgot to watch this today

This Man Is The Truth. .Keone Brought Ne Here. .Lol

I'm in love with this poem, and Rudy you are wonderful

Your lyrics are dope! So real, goosebumps ran rampid! Awesome performance Rudy!!

so ur my favorite poet ever! i've good listen to you all day. omg! omg!

Guys should learn from this man. Hands down.

My all time favorite poem!!!! Idk how many I have listened to it.