I finally understand
For a woman it ain’t easy tryin’ to raise a man
“Dear Mama” by Tupac Shakur
Last year my son gave me Tupac Shakur’s Me Against The World (released in 1995) for a birthday present. This poem describes my reaction the first time I heard the song Dear Mama on the album.
Dear Tupac
The shattered kaleidoscope of your childhood
shines through my car speakers
your mother holding the colorful bits in her hands.
You and her, you kept it going
no matter how hard life hit you.
I feel the same blood love
for my son, my sons, my daughter
almost three decades after you released the song
louder than sound
deeper than rain on the car on my face
listening to you and your mother pass into eternity.
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This post is republished on Medium.
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