Summary Of The Poem To This Day By Shane Koyczan

In the poem, To This Day, by Shane Koyczan, 1:28 into the video, the author says, "I Used to hear that rhyme about sticks and stones. As if broken bones hurt more than the names that we got called." (Shane Koyczan), as the author says this there is a boy standing in a dark hallway alone with these dark, creepy, vines grabbing him. What the author is trying to say is that he could not escape from the names that he had been called, nobody was there to help when he was being called names, and that being hurt mentally feels the same as being hurt physically. When the author says, “As if broken bones hurt more than the names that we got called.”, the author is saying that being hurt physically hurts just as much as being hurt