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A Poem to the Bullied and Beautiful
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Bullied children survive, says poet Shane Koyczan; but not because, unlike sticks and stones, "names will never hurt me." The torment wounds profoundly and the damage can be lifelong. "We stem from a root planted in the beilief that we are not what we are called... Our lives are a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty."
With this recital of his celebrated poem, "To This Day", Shane gives the backstory of his own harrowing childhood experience and speaks against a spectacular backdrop of crowsourced animation depicting the all-too-frequent cruelty of the schoolyard.
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You are a bright light in a societal nightmare, leaving behind that place where darkness masquerades as light, that place where being with the in crowd, giving up your identity for a jagged smile - is heralded - but no, you reign free, rein in the downward spiral of revenge, and with your bloody scars of courage, you reach up, up for beauty! Bravo and thank you - for myself and for all the children - from the bottom of my heart!
health professional. I often see the backlash of bullied students.
People need to understand the humiliation and rejection the bullied
Student, young adult and aults experience. Bravo for your courage
Shane!!
Love all Serve all, Help ever Hurt never.