Directed by Mark Valino.

Our first visual introduction to poet/writer/blogger Greg Drakes – I’ll let him tell it tho:

Anything I’ve ever loved doing in my life has always been the SCARIEST thing for me to do.
Poetry.
Poetry, is my release. Poetry is my therapy. Poetry is that ear when no one will listen. I once told someone that performing my “therapy” is like turning your skin inside-out. That vulnerability that I’m left with … that vulnerability leaves me exposed, but at the same time… FREE.
This video, is the first I’ve EVER performed, but felt it was necessary. I’ve launched this project entitled Drakes365 in an attempt to get out of my shell and essentially, drop all fears.
Shooting my first video in the busy downtown streets of Toronto is liberating, and a calculated attempt of freeing those fears. Crowds forming, people watching, external distractions, have all been part of my expansion process; my breaking out of my preverbal shell.. Fear is something we all face. Fear something I face. OVERCOMING that fear however …
is what life is all about.

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Previously: NEW VIDEO: Times Neue Roman “Cotabato” (Directed by Mark Valino)