Healing - Aniyah Smith

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**Thank you for watching this video. Alongside many other tools of healing, Split This Rock believes self-expression to be one way to navigate depression. It is not the opinion of Split This Rock or the creators of this video that poetry, or art in general, is the only or even necessarily the primary option. We do hope you find inspiration, hope, and sustenance from Aniyah’s poem.**
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[@harrietgambles6125]

I don’t know if you understand how many lives you have saved with this piece!!! God bless you all and continue to use you!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾😭

[@labrinabarber99]

This is LITERALLY THE BEST POEM I HAVE EVEE HEARD IN MY 22 years of existence!!! This spoke volumes, gave me chills, made me feel again ♥️♥️♥️♥️😭🥺😅

[@anismith4973]

this is my work and this comment touched me so deeply. thank you so much

[@lil1671]

Couldn’t have said it better!

[@anthonymakhubu2677]

I was listening to Nayo Jones saying she doesn't know if the pen she's holding is needle or if it is dagger, If when she writes she's sewing the wound or cutting it deep. She must come to listen to this poem🤞

[@sibusisiwekataziye2056]

“Turn the pain into prose and see how quickly the end becomes a new beginning, write the poem like your life depends on it because sometimes it does” 💔💔❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 I can relate

[@alexischeville2983]

this is incredible... poetry is healing 110% - helps so much in life and keeps us living :)

[@TheGenevieveRose]

I’ve been writing poetry since 2015 and it’s definitely been one thing that’s kept me alive and express my emotions, my poems are so sad though and they talk about depression and suicide, I’m scared to show it to people that can’t handle it but I know a lot of people out there might need to hear it….

[@jeansiima]

I've watched this a million times and everytime, it gives me hope.....Poetry is hope

[@Carol.Katlego]

The poem that turned me into a poet after my fight with depression 😔❤️

[@PrincessIbizugbe-ju3kj]

I'm beginning to wonder,is every poet going through depression?

[@gloryolomi7]

Her voice is powerful❤…. Mix that with the poem and i am just speechless🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽. I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to this

[@curlykidkay]

this was beautiful. I am also a poet. I relate with every word she said. these words have saved my life. ❤

[@talktomehnice]

Chills….tears… deep sorrow turning to hope. Thank you for sharing this uplifting poem. You are loved. 💜🙏🏽

[@PrincessIbizugbe-ju3kj]

My name is Princess and I've been writing poetry for two years if not since I was 6. First, it was out of passion till people started telling me I could make money out of it. When I realised I didn't know how and I couldn't help my family, I became devastated. I've been having thoughts of suicide many times that even my therapy is not helping with.This poem has given me re-found hope and a part of me that seemed dead has been awoken. I pray daily to rise through these ashes, but I never knew how. But now I do. And I am grateful for finding this poem in time.

[@nakambugumiriam]

literally the best poem I have heard all my life

[@iluvjake1000]

All I’m wondering, is how have I never heard this before?! Maybe the most important & powerful words ever spoken.

[@anthonyourbrother]

Graceful, beautiful, passionate, uplifting ✨️ Thank you 🙏

[@stephaniejefferson6566]

Thank you for the pen, Aniyah. Thank you. Always.

[@anismith4973]

Stephanie Jefferson thank YOU

[@stephaniejefferson6566]

Aniyah Nikki : Having just made a personal pilgrimage this past weekend to honor my past, to release some sorrows that i FINALLY realize no longer serve ANYone, to FORGive myOWNself, and ReJOYce in still being ALIVE, I then raced back up the highway, and made it to The Kennedy Center, just in time to see you all WIN LTAB. Perfect! So very proud of and grateful for you. And ALL the Poets. HEALING indeed ...

[@DAVIDBIANCHI]

@@anismith4973 POWERFUL WORK!!!

[@rhonikathom330]

My skin is crawling and I want to cry, love this🤧

[@johncalhoun9335]

I loved every word of this

[@TheGenevieveRose]

I listen to this in my lowest times and it keeps saving me

[@maryhill4359]

This simply took my breath away.

[@liahrenee941]

My Heart‼️❤️ this just spoke life into me 🙏🏽✨ I can breathe again 🥺💖

[@purplepanda99]

Thank you for saving my life, I am with my pen now❤️🖋️

[@baelfiresmith7141]

This is so beautiful and meaningful thank you so much

[@xochitlymel1580]

Every single word . Thank you ! Art has saved my life as well . Guess I was writing out my story this whole time . 🥺

[@alijahmoya]

This is beautiful, thank you 🫶🏽

[@saminabukhari7336]

Mashalla, beautiful words young sister ♡ I hope life is treating you kind ♡

[@melisagutierrez9829]

This is so beautiful and spoke to me so much, thank you for sharing this

[@rachel3065]

This is the best poem i have heard in a long time, she is so talented, so raw, so real. As a poet myself I understand and appreciate this so much 💞 i had to hold back the tears, thank you for this reminder

[@iluvjake1000]

I couldn’t hold mine back. I get this sentiment.

[@Ice-mf8dx]

Thank you for giving me hope

[@lil1671]

This is the best poem ever!❤

[@miriantexta8427]

Art has saved my life, thank you for sharing!

[@lehlogonolo3536]

I come back to this every time I consider hurting myself

[@dawnli5983]

I didn't know I needed this until I heard it

[@alankn6508]

picked up the pen so many times and it’s helped so many times and made me feel okay again

[@veronicathomas2024]

Thank you so much

[@ChelynaKokou]

Best poem ever

[@neomamabolo6103]

Im crying❤ this is beautiful. Thank you so much

[@Wigdiana_Kakishi]

This is why i love writing. This is amazing 💛

[@melindaharrington6632]

Wow this really touched me. 😢💜❤️ Writing ✍️ helps me heal💜🙂

[@HeeSha_TA]

Being a poet isn't about pretty prose. Some days, it is just about being alive.❤️‍🩹✨

[@enrikahouston8746]

🌹🦋 EXTRAORDINARY, ANGEL!!!

[@phoenixbooth6215]

This was beautiful and moving and I think I will take your advice and pick up a pen

[@dianegetzy3039]

Thank you, fellow poet, well said

[@faithzoejere6164]

Best poem I've heard❤

[@wamboopoetry7588]

Beautiful ❤

[@hlulanimaxwell622]

Thanks Aniyah, I got my pen

[@kristenandrews487]

Wow...such amazing words❤

[@Lifewithchrist__]

I needed this. ❤️

[@chelseab7723]

she’s just amazing 🥺

[@CURLY2115]

Thank you Aniyah, thank you

[@smilladuda4964]

love this

[@oliviahaughton1942]

I loveee this

[@LaRoyTechTips]

String poem I love her style

[@shabanakumar974]

This is so amazing

[@math1181]

thank you

[@anitaarguello851]

😭👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💙

[@Alloy_Tessa]

Don't spill blood spill ink 💯 That's wat I keep doing

[@worthyourmoni]

Absolutely beautiful ❤

[@irecebrasilbahia4108]

Beautiful.

[@nicolewilliams3434]

Wow !!!❤❤❤

[@ladyc5809]

Lovely

[@johnkeithrobinson7399]

good job keep up the good work

[@sandisiwejiyane7981]

Thank you ❤

[@voyagersheart]

Hi. I'm Rev.Kapp from the Unitarian Universalists of Cumberland Valley. I'd love to ues this video in one of our church services centered around poetry. These are holy words. May i please have permission to use it on the screen in our chapel?

[@PoetrywithKaye]

I thank you

[@SoapBoxAPoetrywebseries]

I gave her a standing ovation in my living room lol

[@DAVIDBIANCHI]

I was a poet at the poetry lounge for years and on two seasons of Verses and Flow..come check my work INSPIRING :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6jVeYSpZ7aFb9k

[@anismith4973]

this is my work, thank you so much for this

[@azandesimamane3282]

Why isn’t there a subtitles😭i wanted to do a monologue for this but sometimes I can’t hear clearly

[@eugh1372]

There's a transcript in description

[@DotsieDIsaac]

Genuine.

[@a_subbu]

00:46 healing

[@grettajoseph1208]

Ryt there with u☺

[@mbalizwane6535]

flowing

[@kaseyjohnson8932]

Check on your friends

[@818izeUnaFlor]

2022 🌟

[@ceceprincess4758]

Okay same girl thats on mali music cd

[@siphesihledlamini5095]

😭😭😭😭😭😭❤

[@Dintle.w]

👊

[@thorisomohajane6539]

First comment?

[@kaspertrampedach6119]

00:50

[@nutjobthumperdink1481]

i shouldn't be here i put down the prose and pick up the razor

[@souadarhin3788]

this ....

[@kalamaybury415]

She said she doesn't believe in God....it's a no for me

[@canary4802]

first No one asked second how sad ur life must be to judge someone based on what they believe

[@grettajoseph1208]

😪😪

[@danielledebie5684]

L

[@cofinify]

Cringe

[@wyn7176]

Thank you so much